{"product_id":"ecological-poetics-or-wallace-stevenss-cary-wolfe-9780226687834","title":"Ecological Poetics; Or, Wallace Stevens's Birds","description":"The poems of Wallace Stevens teem with birds: grackles, warblers, doves, swans, nightingales, owls, peacocks, and one famous blackbird who summons thirteen ways of looking. What do Stevens's evocations of birds, and his poems more generally, tell us about the relationship between human and nonhuman? In this book, the noted theorist of posthumanism Cary Wolfe argues for a philosophical and theoretical reinvention of ecological poetics, using Stevens as a test case. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Stevens, Wolfe argues, is an ecological poet in the sense that his places, worlds, and environments are co-created by the life forms that inhabit them. Wolfe argues for a \"nonrepresentational\" conception of ecopoetics, showing how Stevens's poems reward study alongside theories of system, environment, and observation derived from a multitude of sources, from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Niklas Luhmann to Jacques Derrida and Stuart Kauffman. \u003ci\u003eEcological Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e is an ambitious interdisciplinary undertaking involving literary criticism, contemporary philosophy, and theoretical biology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cary Wolfe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022668783X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226687834\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.70d","brand":"Cary Wolfe","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086422913279,"sku":"9780226687834","price":89.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a2174ba4-7c32-480d-a814-fffef59b030a.jpg?v=1769094587","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ecological-poetics-or-wallace-stevenss-cary-wolfe-9780226687834","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}