Ecology, Egyptology, and Dialectics in Muriel Rukeyser's "The Book of the Dead"

Studying how Muriel Rukeyser combines mythopoetics from the Egyptian Book of the Dead with Marxist dialectics reveals how, in the final section of her long poem "The Book of the Dead," she transforms a historical narrative of a Union Carbide worker tragedy into an ecological vision that cr...

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Published inMosaic (Winnipeg) Vol. 38; no. 3; pp. 131 - 147
Main Author SCIGAJ, LEONARD M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Winnipeg University of Manitoba 01.09.2005
University of Manitoba, Mosaic
MOSAIC
Subjects
American poetry
Capitalism
Carbides
Comprehension
Criticism and interpretation
Dialectic
Ecological balance
Ethics
Ginza
Imagery
Irony
Literary criticism
Marxian economics
Modernist art
Modernist poetry
Poetry
Poets
Postmodernism
Rukeyser, Muriel
Rukeyser, Muriel (1913-1980)
Truth
War
United States
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Summary:Studying how Muriel Rukeyser combines mythopoetics from the Egyptian Book of the Dead with Marxist dialectics reveals how, in the final section of her long poem "The Book of the Dead," she transforms a historical narrative of a Union Carbide worker tragedy into an ecological vision that critiques corporate greed and America's manifest destiny myth.
ISSN:0027-1276
1925-5683