In the First Country of Places: Nature, Poetry, and Childhood MemorySUNY Press, 1994 M01 1 - 234 páginas In the First Country of Places explores how people's personal philosophies of nature shape their childhood memories and self-identities. Drawing upon written work and original interviews, the book describes uses of memory through the perspectives of five American Poets who represent different contemporary beliefs: William Bronk, David Ignatow, Audre Lorde, Marie Ponsot, and Henry Weinfield. These authors present their relationships with nature and childhood in the context of major Western traditions of philosophy and religion. Each poet confronts the modern scientific image of an alien nature within which histories of individuals are insignificant; and three poets elaborate alternative versions of connection with nature and their own past. This work opens new directions in the psychology of memory, developmental and environmental psychology, environmental studies, and the study of American poetry. |
Contenido
Placing the Past | 1 |
Childhood and Nature | 21 |
Confrontations William Bronk and Henry Weinfield | 51 |
Reconciliation David Ignatow | 85 |
Connections Audre Lorde and Marie Ponsot | 105 |
Childhood and Nature Reconsidered | 145 |
A Recollective Psychology | 169 |
Epilogue | 195 |
Notes | 201 |
229 | |
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In the First Country of Places: Nature, Poetry, and Childhood Memory Louise Chawla Vista previa limitada - 1994 |
In the First Country of Places: Nature, Poetry, and Childhood Memory Louise Chawla Vista previa limitada - 1994 |
Términos y frases comunes
Admit Impediment adult Audre Lorde autobiographical beauty beginning believed book's century chapter Chawla child childhood and nature childhood memory Coleridge connection consciousness contemporary creative cultural daughter David Ignatow described earth Edith Cobb empiricist environmental memory Ever-Present Origin experience faith father feeling five poets forms Freud Gadamer Gebser Heidegger Henry Weinfield hermeneutic Hesiod hood human Husserl identification images imagination Jean Gebser language learned lives Lorde and Ponsot Lorde's M. H. Abrams Marie Ponsot meaning memories of nature mental metaphor modern mother myth natural world Neisser Neoplatonic never Notebooks observed past personal interview phenomenology philosophy physical Platonic poem poetic poetry poets present psychology reality relations remember Romantic sense Sigmund Freud spirit theme theory thought tion tradition trans True Minds truth ture Ulric Neisser University Press Vaughan and Traherne Whitman William Bronk William Wordsworth woman women words Wordsworth writing York