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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New York :
Routledge,
[2019]
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| 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.