The New Poetics of Climate Change: Modernist Aesthetics for a Warming World

ISBN-13: 9781474282093 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 224 str.

Matthew Griffiths; Greg Garrard; Richard Kerridge

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Climate Changes Everything i. The Climate Change Poem ii. Criticism and Climate Change iii. Modernism Matters 2. A New Climate for Modernism i. The Modes of Modernism ii. The Changing Climate of The Waste Land 3. Wallace Stevens's Fictions of Our Climate i. Some Poems of Our Climate ii. Models for Atmospheric Apprentices iii. Notes Towards a Climatic Poetics iv. The Poetics of our Climate 4. Basil Bunting and Nature's Discord i. Nature in Bunting's Romantic Modernism ii. An Economy of the Elements, the Poetics of Entropy iii. Bunting Unbound iv. Mapping the Order 5. David Jones's Anathemata and the Gratuitous Environment i. Poetry versus Progressivism ii. The Fractal Form iii. The Associative Anthropocene iv. Contingent Culture 6. The Poems of Our Climate Change i. Warming to the theme ii. Sea Change: Modernist Poetics and Climate Change 7. Conclusion: The New Poetics of Climate Change References Notes Index