The Anthropocene Lyric

An Affective Geography of Poetry, Person, Place
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-36474-6
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 139 Seiten, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 2961 g

This book takes the work of three contemporary poets John Burnside, John Kinsella and Alice Oswald to reveal how an environmental poetics of place is of significant relevance for the Anthropocene: a geological marker asking us to think radically of the human as one part of the more-than-human world.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bristow, Tom

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Jam Tree Gully Poems
2. Gift Songs
3. A Sleepwalk on the Severn
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tom Bristow is an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He read English Literature at the University of Leicester from 1999–2003 and his PhD was awarded by the University of Edinburgh in 2008. Tom is a member of the Mellon Australian Observatory in the Environmental Humanities research programme, University of Sydney; editor of (PAN); and former President of the Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture, Australia and New Zealand (ASLEC-ANZ).