Poetry and the Anthropocene

Ecology, biology and technology in contemporary British and Irish poetry
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-94168-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 241 mm x 165 mm, Gewicht: 510 g

Reihe: Routledge Environmental Humanities

This book asks what it means to write poetry in and about the Anthropocene, the name given to a geological epoch where humans have a global ecological impact. Combining critical approaches such as ecocriticism and posthumanism with close reading and archival research, it argues that the Anthropocene requires poetry and the humanities to find new ways of thinking about unfamiliar spatial and temporal scales, about how we approach the metaphors and discourses of the sciences, and about the role of those processes and materials that confound humans’ attempts to control or even conceptualise them.

Poetry and the Anthropocene draws on the work of a series of poets from across the political and poetic spectrum, analysing how understandings of technology shape literature about place, evolution and the tradition of writing about what still gets called Nature. The book explores how writers’ understanding of sciences such as climatology or biochemistry might shape their poetry’s form, and how literature can respond to environmental crises without descending into agitprop, self-righteousness or apocalyptic cynicism. In the face of the Anthropocene’s radical challenges to ethics, aesthetics and politics, the book shows how poetry offers significant ways of interrogating and rendering the complex relationships between organisms and their environments in a world increasingly marked by technology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Solnick, Sam (University of Liverpool, UK)

Solnick, Sam

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: poetry and science 1. Evolving systems of (eco)poetry 2. ‘Life subdued to its instrument’: Hughes, mutation and technology 3. ‘Germinal ironies’: changing climates in the poetry of Derek Mahon 4. The resistant materials of Jeremy Prynne Conclusion: Evolution, agency and feedback at the end of a world

Über Autor(innen)

Sam Solnick is the William Noble Research Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Liverpool, UK.