Places that the map can't contain: Poetics in the Anthropocene
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Inspired by Lynn Keller's notion of "the self-conscious Anthropocene," the book sets out to consider poetry as a privileged space for rethinking our basic epistemological assumptions. Poetry does not have the kind of agency a direct political intervention has; in fact, as W. H. Auden famously put it, "poetry makes nothing happen." On the other hand, poetry is crucial when it comes to awakening our individual and collective imagination. Considering the statement by Lawrence Buell that the current ecological crisis is, in the first place, a crisis of the imagination, this function of poetry comes through as particularly important.…mehr

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Inspired by Lynn Keller's notion of "the self-conscious Anthropocene," the book sets out to consider poetry as a privileged space for rethinking our basic epistemological assumptions. Poetry does not have the kind of agency a direct political intervention has; in fact, as W. H. Auden famously put it, "poetry makes nothing happen." On the other hand, poetry is crucial when it comes to awakening our individual and collective imagination. Considering the statement by Lawrence Buell that the current ecological crisis is, in the first place, a crisis of the imagination, this function of poetry comes through as particularly important.
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Autorenporträt
Julia Fiedorczuk is professor of American literature and environmental humanities at the University of Warsaw, Poland. In addition to her academic activities, she is an award-winning author of poetry and fiction translated into many languages.

Prof. Dr. Pawel Piszczatowski ist Professor für Literatur an der Universität Warschau, Polen. Er forscht über die Poesie des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts sowie die interdisziplinären Diskurse des Posthumanismus und Neuen Materialismus.