Contemporary Irish Ecocentric Poetry and the Writing of Nature

Sounds and Signs

Wit Pietrzak (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

140 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-04986-9 (ISBN)

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Contemporary Irish Ecocentric Poetry and the Writing of Nature explores how poetic language can apprehend non-anthropocentric points of view. It builds on the recent developments in environmental humanities and seeks to show that four Irish poets, Derek Mahon, Paula Meehan, Moya Cannon and Seán Lysaght, offer means of diversifying our perception of nature and our place in it. This diversification, in turn, is intended to help us change our idea of natural environment from seeing it as a passive space, which we can either exploit or preserve, to a view of nature as an interrelated network of agents, in which humans are one actor among numerous others. Utilising a broad theoretical and philosophical context to help frame the analyses of verse in up-to-date conceptual schemes, this volume serves as a critical foundation for the future work and research in Irish ecocriticism and on ecopoetics in general, making the monograph an ideal read for postgraduates, scholars and researchers in these fields.

Wit Pietrzak is Professor of British and Irish literature at the University of Lodz, Poland.

Introduction: Ecopoetics Between Ethics and Epistemology

1 The Search for Silence in the Poetry and Prose of Derek Mahon

2 Breathing, Writing, Feeling: The Poetry of Paula Meehan

3 The Songs of Light and Grace in the Poetry of Moya Cannon

4 Reading the Language of Nature: The Poetry of Seán Lysaght

Erscheinungsdatum	31.07.2025
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Irish Literature
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	430 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	1-041-04986-2 / 1041049862
ISBN-13	978-1-041-04986-9 / 9781041049869
Zustand	Neuware