Poetry and Ecology in the Age of Milton and MarvellRoutledge, 2017. márc. 2. - 276 oldal The focus of this study is the perception of nature in the language of poetry and the languages of natural philosophy, technology, theology, and global exploration, primarily in seventeenth-century England. Its premise is that language and the perception of nature vitally affect each other and that seventeenth-century poets, primarily John Milton, Andrew Marvell, and Henry Vaughan, but also Margaret Cavendish, Thomas Traherne, Anne Finch, and others, responded to experimental proto-science and new technology in ways that we now call 'ecological' - concerned with watersheds and habitats and the lives of all creatures. It provides close readings of works by these poets in the contexts of natural history, philosophy, and theology as well as technology and land use, showing how they responded to what are currently considered ecological issues: deforestation, mining, air pollution, drainage of wetlands, destruction of habitats, the sentience and intelligence of animals, overbuilding, global commerce, the politics of land use, and relations between social justice and justice towards the other-than-human world. In this important book, Diane McColley demonstrates the language of poetry, the language of responsible science, and the language of moral and political philosophy all to be necessary parts of public discourse. |
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... metaphor, and grammatical irregularity. His “philosophical language” provides “[t]he reducing of all things and notions, to such kind of Tables as . . . would prove the shortest and plainest way for the attainment of real Knowledge ...
... metaphor, and grammatical irregularity. His “philosophical language” provides “[t]he reducing of all things and notions, to such kind of Tables as . . . would prove the shortest and plainest way for the attainment of real Knowledge ...
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... metaphors can reduce their reality in the minds of readers: lions are not lions, but courage or wrath, and roses lose their particular faces to become emblems of perishability that exhort us to seize the day. The poets discussed here ...
... metaphors can reduce their reality in the minds of readers: lions are not lions, but courage or wrath, and roses lose their particular faces to become emblems of perishability that exhort us to seize the day. The poets discussed here ...
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... metaphorical, allegorical, emblematic, and typological, the latter largely from the Book of Genesis; because it weaves these together with observation of the actual place and its inhabitants; and because Marvell's playful language is ...
... metaphorical, allegorical, emblematic, and typological, the latter largely from the Book of Genesis; because it weaves these together with observation of the actual place and its inhabitants; and because Marvell's playful language is ...
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... metaphorical, though he retains those modes, but as organic and processive. He does so, as Asheley Griffiths has shown,10 with accurate observation of the actual flora and fauna of Yorkshire. Although he shares with georgic revivalists ...
... metaphorical, though he retains those modes, but as organic and processive. He does so, as Asheley Griffiths has shown,10 with accurate observation of the actual flora and fauna of Yorkshire. Although he shares with georgic revivalists ...
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... metaphor that immures it, Fairfax's flowerfortress, sprays floral fireworks in honor of armistice and a return to the primary calling of dressing and keeping the earth; the metaphorical garden “laid out . . . in sport / in the just ...
... metaphor that immures it, Fairfax's flowerfortress, sprays floral fireworks in honor of armistice and a return to the primary calling of dressing and keeping the earth; the metaphorical garden “laid out . . . in sport / in the just ...
Tartalomjegyzék
Earth Mining Monotheism and Mountain Theology | |
Air Water Woods | |
The Lives of Plants | |
Animals Ornithology and the Ethics of Empathy | |
Animal Ethics and Radical Justice | |
Miltons Prophetic Epics | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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