Ecocriticism and the poiesis of form : holding on to proteus /

Ecocriticism and the Poiesis of Form: Holding on to Proteus demonstrates how a fractal imagination helps one hold the form of a poem within the reaches of Deep Time, and it explores the kinship between the hazy, liminal moment when Sound becomes Syllable and the hazy, liminal moment when the sage en...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moe, Aaron M., 1976- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, [2019]
Series:Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment.
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Table of Contents:
  • PART I. Origins; or, 'the bud of the bud'.
  • The 'turn / ing;edge, of / life': an introduction
  • Protean energy; or , the squeeze & the turn in Moby-Dick
  • Biosemiotics and Jody Gladding's Translations from Bark Beetle
  • Vibrational poiesis of insects and arachnids
  • 'Electrons / swoon in the sword fern' : plants, seeds, and Brenda Hillman's Thoreauvian attentiveness
  • PART II. Energy Unleashed. The 'worship of kinesis' in the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath
  • Machines, protean mimicry, and the organic energy of writing technologies
  • 'plant Magic dust': a look at the 'making obsession'
  • Holding on
  • The squeeze of trauma: 'protean being' & 500 years of pressure
  • PART III. E=mc², the fractal cosmos, and the poem. Mathematics and the protean sublime
  • Protean energy as hyperobject: language and the cosmos
  • Gaia, the atom, and the poem.