The New Poetics of Climate Change : Modernist Aesthetics for a Warming World Paperback / softback
by Matthew (Independent Scholar, UK) Griffiths
Part of the Environmental Cultures series
Paperback / softback
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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages, 1 b/w illustration
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:07/02/2019
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- ISBN:9781350099470
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:224 pages, 1 b/w illustration
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:07/02/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781350099470