| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 200 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticism
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Under the sign of nature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Carl Sandburg and the Living American City -- 2. Wallace Stevens and the American Park -- 3. William Carlos Williams and the Failures of Planning -- 4. Marianne Moore and the National Park Service. |
| Summary |
"In Building Natures, Julia Daniel establishes the influence of landscape architecture, city planning, and parks management on American poetry to show how modernists engaged with the green worlds and social playgrounds created by these new professions in the early twentieth century. The modern poets who capture these parks in verse explore the aesthetic principles and often failed democratic ideals embedded in the designers' verdant architectures. The poetry of Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Marianne Moore foregrounds the artistry behind our most iconic green spaces. At the same time, it demonstrates how parks framed, rather than ameliorated, civic anxieties about an increasingly diverse population living and working in dense, unhealthy urban centers. Through a combination of ecocriticism, urban studies, and historical geography, Building Natures unveils the neglected urban context for seemingly natural landscapes in several modernist poems, such as Moore's "An Octopus" and Stevens's Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction, while contributing to the dismantling of the organic-mechanic divide in modernist studies and ecocriticism."--Book description, Amazon.com. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American poetry. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Cities and towns in literature.
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Cities and towns in literature. |
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Parks in literature.
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Parks in literature. |
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Landscapes in literature.
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Landscapes in literature. |
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Landscape architecture.
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Landscape architecture. |
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Ecocriticism.
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Ecocriticism. |
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City planning.
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City planning. |
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Urban parks.
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Urban parks. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Daniel, Julia E. Building natures. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017 9780813940830 (DLC) 2017027098 (OCoLC)988165232 |
| ISBN |
9780813940830 (electronic book) |
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0813940834 (electronic book) |
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9780813940854 (electronic book) |
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0813940850 (electronic book) |
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0813940834 |
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9780813940847 |
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0813940842 |
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