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Author Griffiths, Matthew (Matthew J. R.), author.

Title The new poetics of climate change : modernist aesthetics for a warming world / Matthew Griffiths.

Publication Info. London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 211 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium monochrome
Description text file
Series Environmental Cultures Series
Environmental cultures series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Climate change is the greatest crisis of our time - and yet too often writing on the subject is separated off as 'environmental' writing, divorced from culture, society and politics. "The New Poetics of Climate Change" argues that the reality of global warming presents us with a fundamental challenge to the way we read and write poetry in the modern age. In this important new book, Matthew Griffiths demonstrates the ways in which modernism's radical reinvigorations of literary form over the last century represents 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 such as Michael Symmons Roberts and Jorie Graham, Griffiths explores how modernist modes help us describe and engage with the terrifying dynamics of a warming world and offer a poetics of our climate.
Contents Climate Changes Everything. The climate change poem ; Criticism and climate change ; Modernism matters -- A New Climate for Modernism. The modes of Modernism ; The changing climate of The Waste Land -- Wallace Stevens's Fictions of Our Climate. Some poems of our climate ; Models for atmospheric apprentices ; Notes towards a climatic poetics ; The poetics of our climate -- Basil Bunting and Nature's Discord. Nature in Bunting's Romantic Modernism ; An economy of elements, the poetics of entropy ; Bunting unbound ; Mapping the order -- David Jones's Anathemata and the Gratuitous Environment. Poetry versus progressivism ; The fractal form ; The associative Anthropocene ; Contingent culture -- The Poems of Our Climate Change. Warming to the theme ; Sea Change: Modernist poetics and climate change -- Conclusion: The new poetics of climate change.
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Subject Climatic changes in literature.
Climatic changes in literature.
Nature in literature.
Nature in literature.
English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English poetry.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject English poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American poetry.
American poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 1900-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Ebook version : 9781474282109
Original 9781474282093 1474282091 (DLC) 2017000353 (OCoLC)951505913
ISBN 9781474282109 (electronic book ; ePub)
1474282105 (electronic book ; ePub)
9781474282116 (electronic book ; PDF)
1474282113 (electronic book ; PDF)
9781474282123 (online)
1474282121 (online)
9781474282093 (hardcover)
1474282091 (hardcover)
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