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Poetry and the Anthropocene: Ecology, biology and technology in contemporary British and Irish poetry

Poetry and the Anthropocene: Ecology, biology and technology in contemporary British and Irish poetry

Paperback

Series: Routledge Environmental Humanities

Business GeneralGeneral PoetryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1138597457
ISBN13: 9781138597457
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 25 2018
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book asks what it means to write poetry in and about the Anthropocene, the name given to a geological epoch where humans have a global ecological impact. Combining critical approaches such as ecocriticism and posthumanism with close reading and archival research, it argues that the Anthropocene requires poetry and the humanities to find new ways of thinking about unfamiliar spatial and temporal scales, about how we approach the metaphors and discourses of the sciences, and about the role of those processes and materials that confound humans' attempts to control or even conceptualise them.

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