Ecology, Egyptology, and dialectics in Muriel Rukeyser's "The Book of the Dead". From: Mosaic (Winnipeg) | Date: September 1, 2005| Author: Scigaj, Leonard M. | COPYRIGHT 2005 University of Manitoba, Mosaic. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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.

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As a modernist who believed in interdisciplinary knowledge, Muriel Rukeyser throughout her life refus...

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