Influx and efflux : writing up with Walt Whitman
Sympathy in literature Human ecology in literature American literature Whitman, Walt, e-böcker
Duke University Press
2020
EISBN 9781478009290
Prologue. Influx and efflux.
Position and disposition.
Circuits of sympathy.
Solar judgment.
Refrain. The alchemy of affects.
Bad influence.
Thoreau experiments with natural influences.
Epilogue. A peculiar efficacy.
"Exploring the question of human agency amidst a world teeming with powerful nonhuman influences, Jane Bennett draws upon Whitman, Thoreau, Caillois, Whitehead, and other poetic writers to link a non-anthropocentric model of self to a democratic pluralism and a syntax and style of writing appropriate to the entangled world in which we live."--
Position and disposition.
Circuits of sympathy.
Solar judgment.
Refrain. The alchemy of affects.
Bad influence.
Thoreau experiments with natural influences.
Epilogue. A peculiar efficacy.
"Exploring the question of human agency amidst a world teeming with powerful nonhuman influences, Jane Bennett draws upon Whitman, Thoreau, Caillois, Whitehead, and other poetic writers to link a non-anthropocentric model of self to a democratic pluralism and a syntax and style of writing appropriate to the entangled world in which we live."--
