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Plants in Contemporary Poetry: Ecocriticism and the Botanical Imagination: Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture

Autor John Ryan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2020
Positioned within current ecocritical scholarship, this volume is the first book-length study of the representations of plants in contemporary American, English, and Australian poetry. Through readings of botanically-minded writers including Les Murray, Louise Glück, and Alice Oswald, it addresses the relationship between language and the subjectivity, agency, sentience, consciousness, and intelligence of vegetal life. Scientific, philosophical, and literary frameworks enable the author to develop an interdisciplinary approach to examining the role of plants in poetry. Drawing from recent plant science and contributing to the exciting new field of critical plant studies, the author develops a methodology he calls "botanical criticism" that aims to redress the lack of emphasis on plant life in studies of poetry. As a subset of ecocriticism, botanical criticism investigates how poets engage with plants literally and figuratively, materially and symbolically, in their works. Key themes covered in this volume include plants as invasives and weeds in human settings; as sources of physical and spiritual nourishment; as signifiers of region, home, and identity; as objects of aesthetics and objectivism; and, crucially, as beings with their own perspectives, voices, and modes of dialogue. Ryan demonstrates that poetic imagination is as essential as scientific rationality to elucidating and appreciating the mysteries of plant-being. This book will appeal to a multidisciplinary readership in the fields of ecocriticism, ecopoetry, environmental humanities, and ecocultural studies, and will be of interest to researchers in the emerging area of critical plant studies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367667627
ISBN-10: 0367667622
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Introduction: Plants’ Lives in Contemporary Poetry 1. Science and Affect in the Plant Poetics of Judith Wright 2. Consciousness and Temporality in Alice Oswald’s Botanical Field 3. Let Plants Be Thy Medicine: Elisabeth Bletsoe’s Pharmacopœia 4. Plant Voices in the Garden: Louise Glück’s The Wild Iris and Other Works 5. An Anti-Pastoralism of Plants? John Kinsella’s Regional Poetics of Flora 6. Cross-Species Empathy: Lorna Dee Cervantes’ Emplumada 7. Plant Poiesis and Spiritual Ecology in the Poetry of Les Murray 8. Transcendence and Rapture in Mary Oliver’s Botanical Poetics Conclusion: Towards a Model of Botanical Criticism

Notă biografică

John Charles Ryan is a poet and scholar who holds appointments as Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Arts at the University of New England in Australia and Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Humanities at the University of Western Australia. His teaching and research cross between the environmental and digital humanities. He is the author, co-author, editor or co-editor of several research books, including the Bloomsbury title Digital Arts (2014, as co-author), The Language of Plants (University of Minnesota Press, 2017, as co-editor and contributor), and Southeast Asian Ecocriticism (Lexington Books, 2017, as editor and contributor). His poetry works include Katoomba Incantation (Cyberwit, 2011), Two With Nature (Fremantle Press, 2012) and No Requiem for the Forest (Hallowell Press, 2018).

Descriere

This book studies representations of plants in contemporary American, English, and Australian poetry, addressing the relationship between poetic language and the subjectivity, agency, sentience, consciousness, and intelligence of vegetal life. It forwards an interdisciplinary model of ‘botanical criticism’ in examining the role of plants in cont