‘Only the Dead Can Be Forgiven’: Contemporary Women Poets and Environmental Melancholia
Ecological crisis challenges the regenerative capacity of nature, revealing all life to exist in anticipation of death. In the face of this realisation, the human subject enters a melancholic state, which, in turn, permits deeper insight into the fate of the more-than-human world. The rhetoric of lo...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2017-01-01
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| Series: | C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings |
| Online Access: | http://c21.openlibhums.org/articles/12 |