New Poetics of Climate Change

Modernist Aesthetics for a Warming World

AvMatthew Griffiths,Greg Garrard

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Climate change is the greatest issue of our time – and yet too often literature on the subject is considered only in the bracket of ‘environmental’ writing, divorced from culture, society and politics. The New Poetics of Climate Change argues instead that the emergence of global warming presents a fundamental challenge to the way we read and write poetry – the way we think – in the modern age.In this important new book, Matthew Griffiths demonstrates that Modernism’s radical reinvigorations of literary form over the last century represent an engagement with key intellectual questions that we still need to address if we are to comprehend the scale and complexity of climate change. Through an extended examination of Modernist poetry, including the work of T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Basil Bunting and David Jones, and their influence on present-day poets including Jorie Graham, Griffiths explores how Modernist modes can help us describe and engage with the terrifying dynamics of a warming world and offer a poetics of our climate.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-07-27
Mått:156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt:494 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Environmental Cultures
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781474282093

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Matthew Griffiths is a poet and literary critic.

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The most exciting aspects of The New Poetics of Climate Change are its linking of climate change to texts that do not focus primarily on 'nature', and the comparison of lesser-known environmental poets with major canonical figures. Twenty-seventeen was the third warmest year on record; this book is uncannily topical.

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1. Introduction: Climate Changes Everythingi. The Climate Change Poemii. Criticism and Climate Changeiii. Modernism Matters2. A New Climate for Modernismi. The Modes of Modernismii. The Changing Climate of The Waste Land3. Wallace Stevens's Fictions of Our Climatei. Some Poems of Our Climateii. Models for Atmospheric Apprenticesiii. Notes Towards a Climatic Poeticsiv. The Poetics of our Climate4. Basil Bunting and Nature's Discordi. Nature in Bunting's Romantic Modernismii. An Economy of the Elements, the Poetics of Entropyiii. Bunting Unboundiv. Mapping the Order5. David Jones's Anathemata and the Gratuitous Environmenti. Poetry versus Progressivismii. The Fractal Formiii. The Associative Anthropoceneiv. Contingent Culture6. The Poems of Our Climate Changei. Warming to the themeii. Sea Change: Modernist Poetics and Climate Change7. Conclusion: The New Poetics of Climate ChangeReferencesNotesIndex