Greening The Lyre: Environmental Poetics And EthicsThis work covers important and neglected ground—environmental language theory. Gilcrest poses two overarching questions: To what extent does contemporary nature poetry represent a recapitulation of familiar poetics? And, to what extent does contemporary nature poetry engage a poetics that stakes out new territory? He addresses these questions with important thinkers, especially Kenneth Burke, and considers such poets as Frost, Kunitz, Heaney, Ammons, Cardenal, and Rich. |
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Toward a Rhetoric of Ecological Poetics | 9 |
Ethos and Environmental Ethics | 61 |
Pragmatic Environmental Poetics | 79 |
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