Human/Animal Relations in Romantic Poetry The Creaturely Poetics of Christopher Smart and John Clare
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作者:
Karremann, Isabel
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Univ Wurzburg, English Literature & British Cultural Studies, Wurzburg, Germany
Ctr Cultural Environm & Anim Studies, Wurzburg, GermanyUniv Wurzburg, English Literature & British Cultural Studies, Wurzburg, Germany
Karremann, Isabel
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[1] Univ Wurzburg, English Literature & British Cultural Studies, Wurzburg, Germany
[2] Ctr Cultural Environm & Anim Studies, Wurzburg, Germany
eighteenth-century poetry;
biosemiotic approach;
Christopher Smart;
metapoetic;
Romantic poetry;
John Clare;
D O I:
10.1080/13825577.2015.1004920
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G [文化、科学、教育、体育];
C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号:
03 ;
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摘要:
This essay examines the productivity of Anat Pick's notion of the creaturely for rethinking the history of human/animal relations. Identifying the Romantic period as a formative epoch for this purpose, it discusses the ways in which poems by Christopher Smart and John Clare articulate a shared mode of embodiment that extends subjectivity and agency beyond the realm of the human. From a biocentric and biosemiotic perspective that acknowledges non-human modes and experiences of existence as meaningful, these poems constitute first stepping stones toward a literary genealogy of a creaturely poetics that acknowledges non-human creatures as 'significant others'.