Nature, Environment and Poetry: Ecocriticism and the Poetics of Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes

ISBN-13: 9781138743588 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 162 str.

Susanna Lidstrom

Opis

This ecocritical book traces the environmental sensibilities of two Anglophone poets; Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), and Ted Hughes (1930-1998), one of the 20^th century's great English poets. It follows how their respective careers follow the accelerating environmental crises of the 20^th century, and how their poems address the relationship between language and ecology, nature and nation, human and animal. While both have been well-studied by critical thinkers before, this book reads their poems afresh for their understandings of local places and global crisis in the century of the environment.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Ecotrickster: Nature and Religion in Crow  2. Human History and Environmental Time: Postmodern nature in Heaney's bog poems  3. Technology and Landscape: Counter and recovery poems in Elmet  4. Colonised Nature: Heaney and postcolonial ecocriticism  5. Ecosemiotics: An anti-anthropocentrism in Hughes's animal poems  6. 'The Place in Me': Heaney, globalisation and sense of place  Conclusions: Hughes, Heaney and the different natures of ecopoetics

O autorze

Susanna Lidström is a postdoctoral researcher at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, with the Environmental Humanities Laboratory, at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.