John Ryan

Plants in Contemporary Poetry (eBook, PDF)

Ecocriticism and the Botanical Imagination

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Produktbeschreibung

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 contemporary poetic expression. Drawing from recent plant science and contributing to the new field of critical plant studies, Ryan redresses the lack of botanical emphasis in ecocriticism, ecopoetics, and the environmental humanities. This book will be of interest to the emerging areas of human-plant studies, critical plant studies, and cultural botany.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317287568
• Artikelnr.: 49041469

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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 Pharmacopia 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