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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... stanzas address the ruinous excesses of overbuilding. One cannot make a house, or a cathedral, or an orchestra, without digging and felling, but one can make choices. When Ben Jonson begins Thou art not, Penshurst, built to envious show ...
... stanzas address the ruinous excesses of overbuilding. One cannot make a house, or a cathedral, or an orchestra, without digging and felling, but one can make choices. When Ben Jonson begins Thou art not, Penshurst, built to envious show ...
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... stanza form fits the case he is making. Edward Topsell had described the “Chelophagi” who “live by eating of Tortoises, and with their shells they cover their houses, make all their vessels, row in them upon the water, as men use to row ...
... stanza form fits the case he is making. Edward Topsell had described the “Chelophagi” who “live by eating of Tortoises, and with their shells they cover their houses, make all their vessels, row in them upon the water, as men use to row ...
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... stanzas provides cases fit for the case Marvell is making. By such economical means, he fits his stanzas to the topic of unfitting construction. It would be misleading to think of Appleton House as a humble abode; it is simply not a ...
... stanzas provides cases fit for the case Marvell is making. By such economical means, he fits his stanzas to the topic of unfitting construction. It would be misleading to think of Appleton House as a humble abode; it is simply not a ...
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... stanzas (Italian for “rooms”) could be aligned to form visual quadratures, but even in print they are conceptually square, having eight lines of eight syllables each. Numerically (and visibly if they are justified, in the printer's ...
... stanzas (Italian for “rooms”) could be aligned to form visual quadratures, but even in print they are conceptually square, having eight lines of eight syllables each. Numerically (and visibly if they are justified, in the printer's ...
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... stanza about plenitude. Often these multiplicities are problematic, setting the mind to work. Part of the owners' praise is that A stately frontispiece of poor Adorns without the open door. Nor less the rooms within commends Daily new ...
... stanza about plenitude. Often these multiplicities are problematic, setting the mind to work. Part of the owners' praise is that A stately frontispiece of poor Adorns without the open door. Nor less the rooms within commends Daily new ...
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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