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Ecology of Modernism
Joshua Schuster
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Description for Ecology of Modernism
Paperback. Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics Series. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
The Ecology of Modernism explores the unexpected absence of an environmental ethic in American modernist and avant-garde poetics, given its keen concern with an ecological esthetic. Joshua Schuster explains why American modernism was never green.
In The Ecology of Modernism, Joshua Schuster examines the relationships of key modernist writers, poets, and musicians to nature, industrial development, and pollution. He posits that that the curious failure of modernist poets to develop an environmental ethnic was a deliberate choice and not an inadvertent omission.
In his opening passage, Schuster boldly invokes lines from Walt Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” which echo ... Read more
The Ecology of Modernism explores the unexpected absence of an environmental ethic in American modernist and avant-garde poetics, given its keen concern with an ecological esthetic. Joshua Schuster explains why American modernism was never green.
In The Ecology of Modernism, Joshua Schuster examines the relationships of key modernist writers, poets, and musicians to nature, industrial development, and pollution. He posits that that the curious failure of modernist poets to develop an environmental ethnic was a deliberate choice and not an inadvertent omission.
In his opening passage, Schuster boldly invokes lines from Walt Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” which echo ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Modern & Contemporary Poetics
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817358297
SKU
V9780817358297
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About Joshua Schuster
Joshua Schuster is an assistant professor of English at the University of Western Ontario, USA.
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