‘Like a Stone’: Ecology, Enargeia, and Ethical Time in Alice Oswald’s Memorial
This article argues that the Anthropocene is marked by haunted time. As the ‘geological agents’ of climate change, as Dipesh Chakrabarty has put it, we both identify with ‘deep time’ processes and conjure the ghosts of those whose lives to come will be shaped in drastic ways by our actions in the pr...
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Language: | English |
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Duke University Press
2014-05-01
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Series: | Environmental Humanities |
Online Access: | http://environmentalhumanities.org/arch/vol4/4.1.pdf |