Plants in Contemporary Poetry: Ecocriticism and the Botanical Imagination

by John Ryan

Book Overview

Positioned within current ecocritical scholarship, this volume is the first book-length study of the representations of plants in contemporary American, English, and Australian poetry. Through readings of botanically-minded writers including Les Murray, Louise Gl?ck, and Alice Oswald, it addresses the relationship between language and the subjectivity, agency, sentience, consciousness, and intelligence of vegetal life. Scientific, philosophical,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367667622
• ISBN13: 9780367667627
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"