Tennyson's Elegy for the Anthropocene
Genre, Form, and Species Being
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10867708 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Taylor Taylor (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 224 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-5222 • E-ISSN: 1527-2052 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/victorianstudies.58.2.04 |
| OpenAlex | W2462030577 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 5 |
The Anthropocene demands that we think about the human, and the humanities, in species terms. This essay takes up this challenge by examining how we mourn the loss of species and what role elegy might play in an age of extinction. It explores the implications of reading in the context of the Anthropocene, when human inscription becomes legible in the geologic record and literary texts take on surprising, counter-intuitive new meanings. Ultimately, this paper seeks to extend our understanding of poetics beyond the human by exploring the relationship between literary and biological form
Anthropocene · Art · Elegy · Environmental ethics · Literature · Poetry · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |