1st Edition

The Routledge Introduction to Ecopoetics in the Canadian Milieu

By Joel Deshaye Copyright 2027
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

The Routledge Introduction to Ecopoetics in the Canadian Milieu  offers an extensive overview of literature and the environment through Canadian poetry. Providing a brief history of ecopoetics since its origins in British Romanticism and American Transcendentalism, along with key terms from ecocriticism, this unconventional textbook provides students with insight into critical issues of the... Read more

Acknowledgments 

 

Preface     

Raw Poetics Methods                                    

 

Introduction       

Ecopoetics in Theory and in History                          

 

Chapter 1      

Indigenous Poetics and Your “Home on Native Land”  

 

Chapter 2      

“Temporizing in the Eternal City”: Al Purdy’s Nature Poets  

 

Chapter 3      

The Deep Timers: Tempoetry and Geopoetry                      

 

 Chapter 4      

Landimals and Oceanimals: Lands, Oceans, and Animals  

 

Conclusion      

The City and Citeleology    

Bibliography  

Biography

Joel Deshaye is currently Professor in the Department of English and Communication and Media Studies at Memorial University. Previous books include The American Western in Canadian Literature (2023) and The Metaphor of Celebrity (2013).