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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (2): 302–323.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Stuart Cooke Abstract In an attempt to respond to the West’s general obliviousness to nonhuman semiosis, this article proposes a method for appreciating nonhuman poetics. By combining the critical tools of poetics and literary theory with insights from ethology and biosemiotics, Stuart Cooke...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 136–158.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Kate Lewis Hood Abstract This article offers an account of “toxic infrastructures” as mutually material and discursive arrangements operating in the postwar, postcrash, and settler colonial landscapes of the United States. It specifically responds to Jennifer Scappettone’s multimodal poetic work...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 4 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 May 2014
... by our actions in the present. This article explores a poetics of haunted time via readings of the work of artist/sculptor Ilana Halperin and poet Alice Oswald. Halperin's recent work with the “slow and fast time” of geological processes (calcification and lava flows), and also with the body's own...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 174–179.
Published: 01 May 2019
... or alter human metabolism? This selection of poems is an attempt to work within a necessarily expanded notion of what constitutes reading and writing in the Anthropocene. Incorporating the results of biomonitoring tests for phthalates on the author’s own urine, the poems consider the “metabolic poetics...
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Environmental Humanities (2021) 13 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 May 2021
... is not pollution but the stuff of life itself and thus possesses ethical and ecological standing. This philosophy contains a poetics of denial that is too often overlooked by studies of climate skepticism focusing narrowly on industry funding. Accordingly, this article develops a reparative theory of climate...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 35–53.
Published: 01 May 2014
... Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes. Heaney and Hughes's respective poetics exhibit distinctive differences that illustrate our argument. Their poems are frequently taught in university classes on ecopoetry, as well as, especially in their home countries, to younger students, and we argue that the differences...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 155–170.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Tobias Boes Abstract This article examines the hermeneutic and poetic operations by which we as human beings turn our very planet into a signifier for our collective existence as a species, a process which I refer to as “planetary mediation.” I identify the so-called Whole Earth images first...
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Environmental Humanities (2012) 1 (1): 85–102.
Published: 01 May 2012
... which the ‘natural’ is constructed. These lines distill Brenda Hillman's ecopoetics of affect, a poetics I will anchor to the simultaneously ecological and affective concept of SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) in my reading of her “elements” series. 3 Hillman's poems repeatedly stage attempts...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (1): 233–236.
Published: 01 March 2022
... of becoming a tree, I argue that arboromorphism can be understood as both an ethics and a poetics, a way of thinking and writing connectively, collectively, in a kin-making, assembling, or branching kind of way, that looks beyond the scope and scale of human lives and bodies. 9 Arboromorphism , from...
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Environmental Humanities (2022) 14 (3): 602–617.
Published: 01 November 2022
... that the imaginative and poetic powers of literature are, in fact, crucial for the ways in which plants have been shaping human culture—specifically the sociocultural norms and understandings of sex, gender, and sexuality. Ultimately, this article shows how plants have been broadening human understandings of sex...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 129–148.
Published: 01 May 2017
... Media (2013), Kac went on to publish the first biopoetry manifesto in the anthology Cybertext Yearbook 2002–03 . 9 Given its origin in Kac’s acutely genre-blurring work, biopoetry shares an intimate relationship with bioart. Not confined to the printed page or to verbal delivery, the poetic...
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Environmental Humanities (2020) 12 (1): 173–178.
Published: 01 May 2020
... measurement, poetics, and aesthetics 12 but also interview, participant observation, even survey. What can we learn from surfers, divers, spear fishers, swimmers, surf lifesavers—people who know the ocean well? “I have learnt a great deal from those ‘ocean-users,’” one of us tells the others, “which I...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 307–311.
Published: 01 May 2014
... a graveyard of ships. Photograph “The Aral Sea Loses Its Eastern Lobe.” NASA Earth Observatory, September 26, 2014. I break memory up into a few elements to offer a poetics of memory for environmental humanities scholars, which could be used to engage new publics. I have chosen to do...
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Environmental Humanities (2019) 11 (1): 101–107.
Published: 01 May 2019
...-poetic researchers, and academic politics of location. 17 As the editors of this special section, we are so grateful to have made the acquaintance with what seems like a surge in research interest in diversifying environmental humanities, already a pluripotent field of many upstream sources...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (1): 175–179.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common . 15. O’Brien, “Edgework of the Clerk,” 203. 16. Dillon, “Poststructuralism, Complexity, and Poetics.” References Agamben Giorgio . The Coming Community . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2001 . Bloomberg Michael...
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Environmental Humanities (2013) 3 (1): 71–91.
Published: 01 May 2013
... Pamphlet Series, PM Press, 2012). 59 Adrian Wilding writes that the relationship between poetry and nature has always been problematic: “While one must acknowledge the force of such images and recognize there is a critical role to be played by a poetic evocation of nature—that as Novalis put...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 55–75.
Published: 01 May 2014
....” 13 Thus, Malick's remarkable reticence in giving public interviews is interpreted as a distinctive feature of his way of doing cinema, of its poetics away from conceptions of the director as auteur or celebrity. Malick's comments on the fairy-tale quality of Badlands can be extended to his...
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Environmental Humanities (2017) 9 (2): 309–324.
Published: 01 November 2017
... a distinctive poetic genius. Aït-Touati underlines that in that period, “debates about cosmology, astronomy, and optics and other branches of natural philosophy are also poetic debates.” 8 Figures like Kepler and Huygens did not just perfect the laws of planetary motion or discover the rings of Saturn...
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Environmental Humanities (2014) 5 (1): 261–276.
Published: 01 May 2014
... where this essay was conceived. We would also like to thank the biologist Matthew R. Evans for his helpful comments. Bibliography Adamson Joni , Evans Mei Mei , and Stein Rachel , eds. The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy . Tucson : University...
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Environmental Humanities (2016) 7 (1): 41–58.
Published: 01 May 2016
... in Aristotle's Poetics, in which Aristotle places the same stress on the inevitability of the tragic outcome. It is not the mere conclusion of the narrative that “is most important of all,” argues Aristotle, but rather “the structure of the incidents” which constitutes the “first principle” and “the soul...