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Plants in Contemporary Poetry - Ecocriticism and the Botanical Imagination (Paperback)
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Plants in Contemporary Poetry - Ecocriticism and the Botanical Imagination (Paperback)
Series: Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture
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Positioned within current ecocritical scholarship, this volume is
the first book-length study of the representations of plants in
contemporary American, English, and Australian poetry. Through
readings of botanically-minded writers including Les Murray, Louise
Gluck, and Alice Oswald, it addresses the relationship between
language and the subjectivity, agency, sentience, consciousness,
and intelligence of vegetal life. Scientific, philosophical, and
literary frameworks enable the author to develop an
interdisciplinary approach to examining the role of plants in
poetry. Drawing from recent plant science and contributing to the
exciting new field of critical plant studies, the author develops a
methodology he calls "botanical criticism" that aims to redress the
lack of emphasis on plant life in studies of poetry. As a subset of
ecocriticism, botanical criticism investigates how poets engage
with plants literally and figuratively, materially and
symbolically, in their works. Key themes covered in this volume
include plants as invasives and weeds in human settings; as sources
of physical and spiritual nourishment; as signifiers of region,
home, and identity; as objects of aesthetics and objectivism; and,
crucially, as beings with their own perspectives, voices, and modes
of dialogue. Ryan demonstrates that poetic imagination is as
essential as scientific rationality to elucidating and appreciating
the mysteries of plant-being. This book will appeal to a
multidisciplinary readership in the fields of ecocriticism,
ecopoetry, environmental humanities, and ecocultural studies, and
will be of interest to researchers in the emerging area of critical
plant studies.
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