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The Poetics of Natural History
Language: en
Pages: 404
Authors: Christoph Irmscher
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-08 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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Winner of the 2000 American Studies Network Prize and the Literature and Language Award from the Association of American Publishers, Inc. Early American natural
Poetics of the Earth
Language: en
Pages: 227
Authors: Augustin Berque
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-25 - Publisher: Routledge

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Poetics of the Earth is a work of environmental philosophy, based on a synthesis of eastern and western thought on natural and human history. It draws on recent
The Poetics of Natural History
Language: en
Pages: 404
Authors: Christoph Irmscher
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-08 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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Newly expanded and in full color, this groundbreaking book argues that early American natural historians had a distinctly poetic sensibility, producing work tha
The Earth on Show
Language: en
Pages: 557
Authors: Ralph O'Connor
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-09-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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At the turn of the nineteenth century, geology—and its claims that the earth had a long and colorful prehuman history—was widely dismissedasdangerous nonsen
The Lost Second Book of Aristotle's
Language: en
Pages: 317
Authors: Walter Watson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-06-27 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Of all the writings on theory and aesthetics - ancient, medieval, or modern - the most important is indisputably Aristotle's "Poetics", the first philosophical