Ecocriticism and the Poiesis of Form: Holding on to Proteus

ISBN-13: 9780367661793 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str.

Aaron Moe

Opis

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.

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Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Note on EEC’s Name and on Citing the Poetry of Dickinson and Whitman

Prelude

Part I: Origins; or, "the bud of the bud"

The "turn / ing;edge,of / life": An Introduction

Chapter 1: Protean Energy; or, The Squeeze & the Turn in Moby-Dick

Chapter 2: Biosemiotics and Jody Gladding’s Translations from Bark Beetle

Chapter 3: Vibrational Poiesis of Insects and Arachnids

Chapter 4: "Electrons / swoon in the sword fern": Plants, Seeds, and Brenda Hillman’s Thoreauvian Attentiveness

Part II: Energy Unleashed

Chapter 5: The "worship of kinesis" in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath

Chapter 6: Machines, Protean Mimicry, and the Organic Energy of Writing Technologies

Chapter 7: "plant Magic dust": A Look at the "Making obsession"

Chapter 8: Holding on

Chapter 9: The Squeeze of Trauma: "protean being" & 500 Years of Pressure

Part III: E = mc², the Fractal Cosmos, and the Poem

Chapter 10: Mathematics and the Protean Sublime

Chapter 11: Protean Energy as Hyperobject: Language and the Cosmos

Chapter 12: Gaia, the Atom, and the Poem

Protean Poiesis: An Afterword

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Aaron M. Moe is an assistant professor of English and Environmental Studies at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame. He earned his Ph.D. in English from Washington State University. His work on poetics, zoopoetics, and ecocriticism has appeared in several journals including ISLE, Journal of Ecocriticism, Humanimalia, and the Walt Whitman Quarterly　as well as book chapters in　Texts, Animals, Environments: Zoopoetics and Ecopoetics, The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies, and The Educational Significance of Human and Non-Human Animal Interactions. In 2014, his Zoopoetics: Animals and the Making of Poetry became a crucial step in the unfolding exploration of the energy behind the forms of poiesis.