Poetics Of The Earth

Author : Augustin Berque
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780429535062

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Poetics of the Earth is a work of environmental philosophy, based on a synthesis of eastern and western thought on natural and human history. It draws on recent biological research to show how the processes of evolution and history both function according to the same principles. Augustin Berque rejects the separation of nature and culture which he believes lies at the root of the environmental crisis. This book proposes a three stage process of "re-worlding" (moving away from the individualized self to become a part of the common world), "re-concretizing" (understanding the meaning and historical development of words and things) and "re-engaging" (reconsidering the relationship between history and subjectivity at every level of being) in order to bring western thought on nature and culture into sustainable harmony and alignment. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental studies, environmental philosophy, Asian studies and the natural sciences.

Author : Augustin Berque
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780429521591

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Poetics of the Earth by Augustin Berque Pdf

Poetics of the Earth is a work of environmental philosophy, based on a synthesis of eastern and western thought on natural and human history. It draws on recent biological research to show how the processes of evolution and history both function according to the same principles. Augustin Berque rejects the separation of nature and culture which he believes lies at the root of the environmental crisis. This book proposes a three stage process of "re-worlding" (moving away from the individualized self to become a part of the common world), "re-concretizing" (understanding the meaning and historical development of words and things) and "re-engaging" (reconsidering the relationship between history and subjectivity at every level of being) in order to bring western thought on nature and culture into sustainable harmony and alignment. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental studies, environmental philosophy, Asian studies and the natural sciences.

Author : Ralph O'Connor
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226616704

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The Earth on Show by Ralph O'Connor Pdf

At the turn of the nineteenth century, geology—and its claims that the earth had a long and colorful prehuman history—was widely dismissedasdangerous nonsense. But just fifty years later, it was the most celebrated of Victorian sciences. Ralph O’Connor tracks the astonishing growth of geology’s prestige in Britain, exploring how a new geohistory far more alluring than the standard six days of Creation was assembled and sold to the wider Bible-reading public. Shrewd science-writers, O’Connor shows, marketed spectacular visions of past worlds, piquing the public imagination with glimpses of man-eating mammoths, talking dinosaurs, and sea-dragons spawned by Satan himself. These authors—including men of science, women, clergymen, biblical literalists, hack writers, blackmailers, and prophets—borrowed freely from the Bible, modern poetry, and the urban entertainment industry, creating new forms of literature in order to transport their readers into a vanished and alien past. In exploring the use of poetry and spectacle in the promotion of popular science, O’Connor proves that geology’s success owed much to the literary techniques of its authors. An innovative blend of the history of science, literary criticism, book history, and visual culture, The Earth on Show rethinks the relationship between science and literature in the nineteenth century.

Author : A. Curry
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137270115

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Environmental Crisis in Young Adult Fiction by A. Curry Pdf

This pioneering study is the first full-length treatment of feminism and the environment in children's literature. Drawing on the history, philosophy and ethics of ecofeminism, it examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic landscapes in young adult fiction reflect contemporary attitudes towards environmental crisis and human responsibility.

Author : Aaron Zwintscher
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781950192052

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Noise Thinks the Anthropocene by Aaron Zwintscher Pdf

In an increasingly technologized and connected world, it seems as if noise must be increasing. Noise, however, is a complicated term with a complicated history. Noise can be traced through structures of power, theories of knowledge, communication, and scientific practice, as well as through questions of art, sound, and music. Thus, rather than assume that it must be increasing, this work has focused on better understanding the various ways that noise is defined, what that noise can do, and how we can use noise as a strategically political tactic. Noise Thinks the Anthropocene is a textual experiment in noise poetics that uses the growing body of research into noise as source material. It is an experiment in that it results from indeterminate means, alternative grammar, and experimental thinking. The outcome was not predetermined. It uses noise to explain, elucidate, and evoke (akin to other poetic forms) within the textual milieu in a manner that seeks to be less determinate and more improvisational than conventional writing. Noise Thinks the Anthropocene argues that noise poetics is a necessary form for addressing political inequality, coexistence with the (nonhuman) other, the ecological crisis, and sustainability because it approaches these issues as a system of interconnected fragments and excesses and thus has the potential to reach or envision solutions in novel ways.

Author : John Elder
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820318479

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Imagining the Earth by John Elder Pdf

This landmark work explores how our attitudes toward nature are mirrored in and influenced by poetry. Showing us a resurgent vision of harmony between nature and humanity in the work of some of our most widely read poets, Imagining the Earth reveals the power of poetry to identify, interpret, and celebrate a wide range of issues related to nature and our place in it.

Author : Jonathan Bate
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674001680

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The Song of the Earth by Jonathan Bate Pdf

In the first ecological reading of English literature, Jonathan Bate traces the distinctions among "nature," "culture," and "environment" and shows how their meanings have changed since their appearance in the literature of the eighteenth century.

Author : John Felstiner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300155532

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Can Poetry Save the Earth? by John Felstiner Pdf

In forty brief and lucid chapters, Felstiner presents those voices that have most strongly spoken to and for the natural world. Poets- from the Romantics through Whitman and Dickinson to Elizabeth Bishop and Gary Snyder- have helped us envision such details as ocean winds eroding and rebuilding dunes in the same breath, wild deer freezing in our presence, and a person carving initials on a still-living stranded whale.

Author : David Farrier
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781452959535

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Anthropocene Poetics by David Farrier Pdf

How poetry can help us think about and live in the Anthropocene by reframing our intimate relationship with geological time The Anthropocene describes how humanity has radically intruded into deep time, the vast timescales that shape the Earth system and all life-forms that it supports. The challenge it poses—how to live in our present moment alongside deep pasts and futures—brings into sharp focus the importance of grasping the nature of our intimate relationship with geological time. In Anthropocene Poetics, David Farrier shows how contemporary poetry by Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Heaney, Evelyn Reilly, and Christian Bök, among others, provides us with frameworks for thinking about this uncanny sense of time. Looking at a diverse array of lyric and avant-garde poetry from three interrelated perspectives—the Anthropocene and the “material turn” in environmental philosophy; the Plantationocene and the role of global capitalism in environmental crisis; and the emergence of multispecies ethics and extinction studies—Farrier rethinks the environmental humanities from a literary critical perspective. Anthropocene Poetics puts a concern with deep time at the center, defining a new poetics for thinking through humanity’s role as geological agents, the devastation caused by resource extraction, and the looming extinction crisis.

Author : David Wheatley
Publisher : Carcanet Press Ltd
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781784104214

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The President of Planet Earth by David Wheatley Pdf

Shortlisted for the 2018 Irish Times Poetry Now Award In his fifth collection of poems, David Wheatley twins his birthplace and his current home, Ireland and Scotland, to engage issues of globalism, identity, and language. He takes inspiration from the Russian Futurist poet Velimir Khlebnikov, self-nominated President of Planet Earth, who in a state of apocalyptic rapture envisioned a new world culture, its rise and its dramatic undoing. In The President of Planet Earth Wheatley brings an experimental sensibility to bear on questions of land and territory, channelling the messianic aspirations of modernism into subversive comedy. We move between Pictish pre-history, the imaginary South American nation of 'Oblivia', and post-independence referendum Scotland. Wheatley marries classical, Gaelic, Scots and continental traditions. He deploys several styles - prose poetry; concrete poetry; translations from Middle Irish, Latin and French; sestinas and sonnets in Scots - to heady effect. The President of Planet Earth refashions language and the world it shapes, devising a transformative poetics.

Author : Sara Dunn,Alan Scholefield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Nature
ISBN : OCLC:1391655190

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Poetry for the Earth by Sara Dunn,Alan Scholefield Pdf

Author : Elizabeth J. Coleman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1556595417

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Here by Elizabeth J. Coleman Pdf

HERE is fierce poetic imagination that faces indifference and cynicism with a rallying call for individual activism and collective action.

Author : Sheila E. Jelen
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814343197

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Salvage Poetics by Sheila E. Jelen Pdf

An interdisciplinary approach to American Jewish ethnic identity in post-Holocaust America.

Author : Geary Hobson
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0826305687

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The Remembered Earth by Geary Hobson Pdf

Gives a sampling of the work of contemporary young American Indian writers.

Author : Jeff T. Johnson
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781947447448

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Trouble Songs by Jeff T. Johnson Pdf

Poet, critic, and hybrid-genre artist Johnson tracks the use of trouble in word, concept, and practice in this debut of brief, elliptical, lyric essays. He moves through a wide swath of 20th- and 21st-century music, always alert to a sense of melancholy shared among songwriters, their songs, and their listeners in the ever-growing web of popular music. "When we say 'trouble,' we refer to the history of trouble whether or not we have it in mind. When we sing trouble, we sing (with) history," Johnson writes. "A Trouble Song is a complaint, a grievance, an aside, a come-on, a confession, an admission, a resignation, a plea. It's an invitation-to sorrow." The effect of all this trouble is dizzying. Highly annotated-often to personal, humorous, and hidden effects-the book weaves among genres, chronologies, and various forms of trouble to ask "Where are we in song? Who are we in song?" Johnson suggests that an answer lies somewhere in the locus of singer, song, and listener-the "essential relations in the Trouble Song." Detouring into philosophy, cultural theory, and verse, Johnson works multilaterally to explore what trouble in popular music does to connect listeners, embolden them, and open a space from which trouble can be addressed across time.