Implicated Leaves
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21722437 |
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| Authors | T Phillips (0000-0003-1732-4514, University of Manchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 168-177 |
| Publication date | 2025-04-03 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Green Letters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-8417 • E-ISSN: 2168-1414 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14688417.2025.2505012 |
| OpenAlex | W4410357539 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Taking its methodological bearings both from contemporary ecocritical debate and ancient literary critical conceptions of the poet’s auditory subjectivity, this article considers the tree-felling episode in the sixth book of Virgil’s Aeneid as an instance of authorial listening embodied in poetic form, in which a range of stances towards the non-human world can be detected. It then traces a strand of imagery in Virgil’s account of the punishment to which souls are subjected in the afterlife, and argues that the poem allows us to conceive the soul as akin to arboreal life. This conception heightens our understanding of the soul’s posthumous state
Astrobiology · Biology · History and Theory of Mathematics · Latin American and Latino Studies · Poetry Analysis and Criticism
| Highly cited | No |
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