Imagining Nature: Blake's Environmental PoeticsMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2002 - 255 páginas In Imagining Nature Kevin Hutchings combines insights garnered from literary history, poststructuralist theory, and the emerging field of ecological literary studies. He considers William Blake's illuminated poetry in the context of the eighteenth-century model of "nature's economy,' a conceptual paradigm that prefigured modern-day ecological insights, describing all earthly entities as integrated parts of a dynamic, interactive system. Hutchings details Blake's sympathy for – and important suspicions concerning – the burgeoning contemporary fascination with such things as environmental ethics, animal rights, and the various fields of scientific naturalism. By focusing on Blake's concern for the relationship between nature and ideology (including the politics of class, gender, and religion) Hutchings avoids the sentimentalism and misanthropic pitfalls all too often associated with environmental commentary. He articulates a distinctively Blakean perspective on current debates in literary theory and eco-criticism and argues that while Blake's peculiar humanism and profound emphasis upon spiritual concerns have led the majority of his readers to regard his work as patently anti-natural, such a view distorts the central political and aesthetic concerns of Blake's corpus. By showing that Blake's apparent hostility toward the natural world is actually a key aspect of his famous critique of institutionalized authority, Hutchings presents Blake's work as an example of "green Romanticism" in its most sophisticated and socially responsive form. |
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Contenido
Green Romanticism and Blake | 3 |
William Blake and the Natural World | 37 |
Anthropocentrism Natures Economy | 76 |
Miltons Environmental | 114 |
Jerusalems Human Ecology | 153 |
Notes | 219 |
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Imagining Nature: Blake's Environmental Poetics Kevin Douglas Hutchings Sin vista previa disponible - 2002 |
Términos y frases comunes
Albion animal anthropocentric anthropomorphic antinomian argue aspect atomism atomistic become Blake depicts Blake's mythology Blake's poetic Blake's view Blakean body Book of Thel chapter Cloud concept contemporary context cosmic cosmology cosmos creatures critical crucial cyclical Darwin's deep ecology discourse discussion Divine doctrine Earth earthly Ecocriticism ecological Emanation emphasis added environmental ethics epic Eternity example existence Felpham female fibres figure Four Zoas Har's heaven holiness holistic human form identity imaginative implicit implies interpret Jerusalem labour Lilly living London Luvah material mechanistic Milton minute particulars modes moral Muggletonian natural world nature's economy Newton Newtonian non-human entities notion objects Oothoon Paradise Paradise Lost passage pastoral Paul Mellon philosophy physical plate poem poetry political Polypus prophetic question Rahab reading realm reference relationship Satan Selfhood social spirit suggests symbol Thel's thou tion trees ultimately understanding University Press Urizen Vala Vala's Vales Vegetation violence vision vortex William Blake Zoas
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"Greener, more mysterious processes of mind": Natur als Dichtungsprinzip bei ... Gerd Bayer Vista previa limitada - 2004 |