Illuminating the Anthropocene: Ecopoetic Explorers at the Edge of the Naturecultures Abyss
| Autor: | Bernard Quetchenbach |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | American Literary History. 31:325-335 |
| ISSN: | 1468-4365 0896-7148 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/alh/ajz010 |
| Popis: | This essay-review considers three recent ecocritical texts that examine the environmental imagination at work in contemporary North American experimental ecopoetry. Compensating for decades of ecocritical neglect, the scholars represented by these volumes turn their attention to experimental poetry of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Special attention is focused on the work of poets attempting to synthesize art and science, and to develop poetics as a means to forge and communicate new links between species. Striving to incorporate environmental systems into poetic structures, contemporary ecopoets promote a crucial role and an ambitious agenda for the genre. Spurred by the Anthropocene imperative to reconfigure relationships between human and nonhuman, civilization and planet, nature and culture, experimental ecopoets create art that is both playful and urgent, but often difficult and obscure. The criticism gathered in these texts provides timely and much-needed theory and context illuminating a vibrant and important movement, or series of related movements, meant to equip both poetry and human culture for coping with the challenges posed by Anthropocene conditions and necessities. |
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