Robert Frost and the Challenge of DarwinUniversity of Michigan Press, 1997 - Всего страниц: 363 Combining both intellectual history and detailed analysis of Frost's poems, Robert Faggen shows how Frost's reading of Darwin reflected the significance of science in American culture from Emerson and Thoreau, through James and pragmatism. He provides fresh and provocative readings of many of Frost's shorter lyrics and longer pastoral narratives as they illustrate the impact of Darwinian thought on the concept of nature, with particular exploration of man's relationship to other creatures, the conditions of human equality and racial conflict, the impact of gender and sexual differences, and the survival of religion. A forceful, appealing study of the Frost-Darwin relation, which has gone little noted by previous scholars, and a fresh explanation of Frost's ambivalent relation to modernism, which he scorned but also influenced. -- William Howarth, Princeton University |
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... question in all but words , " a phrase that suggests that we are different only in degree , not in kind , from other creatures . The question is whether words are much of an addition to the bird's song , which otherwise encompasses all ...
... question in all but words , " a phrase that suggests that we are different only in degree , not in kind , from other creatures . The question is whether words are much of an addition to the bird's song , which otherwise encompasses all ...
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... question a tautology . In the final couplet , the questions reveal the uncertainty from our perspective about causality in a world governed by a web of interactive forces . And our desire to wed value to fact becomes yet another force ...
... question a tautology . In the final couplet , the questions reveal the uncertainty from our perspective about causality in a world governed by a web of interactive forces . And our desire to wed value to fact becomes yet another force ...
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... question , " Fred , where is north ? " indicate that the couple are lost and , metaphorically , east of Eden . Frost's poem undermines religious and meta- physical knowledge of the human position in relation to origins , sexual hier ...
... question , " Fred , where is north ? " indicate that the couple are lost and , metaphorically , east of Eden . Frost's poem undermines religious and meta- physical knowledge of the human position in relation to origins , sexual hier ...
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