The new poetics of climate change
Subtitle: modernist aesthetics for a warming world
By: Matthew Griffiths
Series: Environmental cultures series; Environmental cultures series
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9781474282093
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Climatic changes in literature; History and criticism; English poetry; American poetry; Nature in literature
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-205) and index.
Table of contents: title: Climate Changes Everything --; title: The climate change poem --; title: Criticism and climate change --; title: Modernism matters --; title: A New Climate for Modernism --; title: The modes of Modernism --; title: The changing climate of The Waste Land --; title: Wallace Stevens's Fictions of Our Climate --; title: Some poems of our climate --; title: Models for atmospheric apprentices --; title: Notes towards a climatic poetics --; title: The poetics of our climate --; title: Basil Bunting and Nature's Discord --; title: Nature in Bunting's Romantic Modernism --; title: An economy of elements, the poetics of entropy --; title: Bunting unbound --; title: Mapping the order --; title: David Jones's Anathemata and the Gratuitous Environment --; title: Poetry versus progressivism --; title: The fractal form --; title: The associative Anthropocene --; title: Contingent culture --; title: The Poems of Our Climate Change --; title: Warming to the theme --; title: Sea Change : Modernist poetics and climate change.