The Anthropocene Lyric: An Affective Geography of Poetry, Person, Place [electronic resource] /
Bristow, Tom.author.
This book takes the work of three contemporary poets John Burnside, John Kinsella and Alice Oswald to reveal how an environmental poetics of place is of significant relevance for the Anthropocene: a geological marker asking us to think radically of the human as one part of the more-than-human world.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Affective geography: poetry, person, place; Locating poetry in the Anthropocene; Ecopoetics and geocriticism; Place perception; More-than-human worlds; Anthropocene emotion; A different literary geography: earth scripts; Literature and space; After Marxist geography; An Anthropocene paradigm of place-based personhood; Anthropocene counterpoint; A renewed poetics of place; 1 Jam Tree Gully; Affective geography: a preface; Attributes and affects: minority geographies; The world of the jam tree
Decolonised pastoralLocation as focal point; Thresholds of knowing; 'My plastic emotions' or not ideas about things; Affective arrays; Negative dialectics and a sacred kingfisher; Warped empathy and radical pastoral; Discordant harmonies; Environmental empathy; A salutary conclusion; 2 Gift Songs; The inscape of dialogical poetics: a prelude on place; Contextualising Burnside; Geography and the idea of order; Spatial spontaneity; Generative worlds;  language and place; Urban history; The itinerant 'I'; Psychogeograpy and spirited materialism; Varieties of religious experience (1)
Stoical neighbourlinessEcopoetic liturgy; Varieties of religious experience (2); One enormous household: Rilkean hues; The situated creaturely life; A sanguine conclusion; 3 A Sleepwalk on the Severn; Modulated uncountry: a prologue; Forming environmentally: the locus of labour; Environmental affect; Struggling for form; Spatialised struggle; Place-consciousness; Withness; Footholds; Belonging; Transformative poetics; Living bodies; Walking; An affective habitus; The corporealised imaginary; Subluminary habitus; Situated voices; A provisional conclusion; Conclusion; Poems of our climate
A word on historyA note on belonging; A sketch of selfhood; Reflections on Anthropocene personhood; Territory (as situatedness); Estrangement (as settledness); Identification (as discreteness); Where next for the lyric imagination?; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book takes the work of three contemporary poets John Burnside, John Kinsella and Alice Oswald to reveal how an environmental poetics of place is of significant relevance for the Anthropocene: a geological marker asking us to think radically of the human as one part of the more-than-human world.
British literature.
Poetry.
Environmental sciences.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature-History and criticism.
Oriental literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Environment, general.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary History.
Asian Literature.