Thinking and Writing with Leaves
Poplar Sympoetics in Romanticism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21722489 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frederike Middelhoff (0000-0002-9945-7320, Goethe University Frankfurt, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 356-376 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Green Letters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-8417 • E-ISSN: 2168-1414 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14688417.2022.2029718 |
| OpenAlex | W4210591617 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
This article explores how Romantic literatures imagine the lives of and reconfigure encounters with poplar trees. It pays particular attention to German-language writing, its arboreal contexts, and the aesthetic modes of talking and listening to poplars. The Romantics, I argue, were interested in poplars not (only) because they were aesthetically pleasing objects, but because poplars evidently made themselves known as self-expressive subjects of a life – a life that the poplars themselves, in turn, imposed upon Romantic poetics. The article reads Romantic poplars as deeply entrenched in the material semiotics of human-tree histories, co-habitation, and the various forms of mourning and remembering with poplars in the Romantic period. Approaching Romantic writing with poplars as a form of sympoetics that is closely connected to poplars outside of the texts, the article analyzes selected poplar writings transcending realms of the symbolic and translating the nonverbal soundscapes of poplar articulations into written texts
Aesthetics · Art · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Romance · Romanticism · Sociology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |