The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics (Routledge Literature Companions)

The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics (Routledge Literature Companions)
by: Julia Fiedorczuk (Editor),Mary Newell (Editor),Bernard Quetchenbach (Editor),Orchid Tierney (Editor)
Publisher:
Edition: 1st
Publication Date: 2023/9/29
Language: English
Print Length: 458 pages
ISBN-10: 1032033789
ISBN-13: 9781032033785
Book Description
The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics offers comprehensive coverage of the vital and growing movement of ecopoetics. This volume begins with a general introduction to the field, followed by six sections:Perspectives: broad overviews engaging fields such as biosemiosis, kinship praxis, and philosophical approachesExperiments: formal innovations developed by poets in response to planetary crisesEarth and Water: explorations of poetic entanglement with planetary chemical and biological systemsWaste/Toxicity/Precarity: poetics addressing the effects of pollution and climate changeEnvironmental Justice and Activism: examinations of poetry as an engine of political and cultural changeRegion and Place: an international array of traditional and contemporary geographically focused responses to ecosystems and environmental conditions; andSubjectivities/Affects/Sexualities: investigations of gender, ethnicity, and race as they intersect with ecological concernsEach section includes an overview and summary addressing the specific essays in the section. These previously unpublished essays represent a wide variety of nationalities, backgrounds, perspectives, and critical approaches exploring the interdisciplinary field of ecopoetics. Contributions from leading scholars working across the globe make The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics a landmark textbook and reference for a variety of researchers and students.
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The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics offers comprehensive coverage of the vital and growing movement of ecopoetics. This volume begins with a general introduction to the field, followed by six sections:Perspectives: broad overviews engaging fields such as biosemiosis, kinship praxis, and philosophical approachesExperiments: formal innovations developed by poets in response to planetary crisesEarth and Water: explorations of poetic entanglement with planetary chemical and biological systemsWaste/Toxicity/Precarity: poetics addressing the effects of pollution and climate changeEnvironmental Justice and Activism: examinations of poetry as an engine of political and cultural changeRegion and Place: an international array of traditional and contemporary geographically focused responses to ecosystems and environmental conditions; andSubjectivities/Affects/Sexualities: investigations of gender, ethnicity, and race as they intersect with ecological concernsEach section includes an overview and summary addressing the specific essays in the section. These previously unpublished essays represent a wide variety of nationalities, backgrounds, perspectives, and critical approaches exploring the interdisciplinary field of ecopoetics. Contributions from leading scholars working across the globe make The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics a landmark textbook and reference for a variety of researchers and students. Read more