"Wordsworth's "Logos of Home
Geological Ethics of Care and Communal Becoming in The Excursion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3970788 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ting Zhang (0000-0002-6840-1367, Sichuan International Studies University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 559-577 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The European Legacy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1084-8770 • E-ISSN: 1470-1316 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10848770.2025.2517435 |
| OpenAlex | W4411380176 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Wordsworth’s The Excursion (1814) redefines home as an evolving ecosystem of communal becoming, where fractures in language and perception foster collective renewal. The poem constructs a “logos of home” through the geological ethics of care, narrative co-presence, and sensory transformation. Dialogic narratives—from fragmented tales to epitaphic voices—transmute trauma into shared memory, while geological motifs spatialize time through labour and decay. Sensory deprivation challenges Enlightenment ocularcentrism, recasting disability as sites of ethical richness. By grounding communal being in marginalized temporalities, Wordsworth rejects teleological unity, proposing a stratified form of belonging: the dead endure as geological strata, the marginalized speak through vegetal signs, and sensory loss sustains communal resilience. Anticipating modern ecological thought, the poem redefines coexistence as cyclical remembrance rather than progress. The Excursion ultimately posits the condition of brokenness as modernity’s ethical imperative, where land, labour, and memory rewrite temporality through geological patience
Aesthetics · Environmental ethics · Excursion · Logos Bible Software · Political science · Sociology · Theology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Philosophy · Travel Writing and Literature
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |