Greenwor(l)ds: Ecocritical Readings of Poetry by Canadian Women (Ecocritical readings of Canadian women's poetry) - Softcover

Relke, Diana M. A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1552380173 ISBN 13: 9781552380178

Publisher: University of Calgary Press, 2001

Synopsis

Greenwor(l)ds rewrites the literary history of Canada from a feminist ecological perspective through a series of essays that examine the lives and work of nine women poets. Using insights from fields of knowledge as disparate as history and biology, physics and philosophy, psychoanalysis and communications studies, these essays reflect the transdisciplinary character of women's studies generally and feminist ecocriticism in particular.

About this title

Product Description:

Rewrites the literary history of Canada from a feminist ecological perspective, exploring the cultural myth which identifies women with non-human nature. This title includes series of essays that examines the lives & work of nine women poets, from Isabella Valancy Crawford in the nineteenth century to Marilyn Dumont in the late twentieth.

Review:

Greenwor(l)ds opens the door to a lively and important discussion of the place of ecocriticism in interpreting and recovering Canadian women's poetry.

--Anne Milne, Atlantis

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Calgary Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1552380173
• ISBN 13: 9781552380178
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360