The Anthropocene demands that we think about the human, and the humanities, in species terms. This essay takes up this challenge by examining how we mourn the loss of species and what role elegy might play in an age of extinction. It explores the implications of reading in the context of the Anthropocene, when human inscription becomes legible in the geologic record and literary texts take on surprising, counter-intuitive new meanings. Ultimately, this paper seeks to extend our understanding of poetics beyond the human by exploring the relationship between literary and biological form.
...MoreReview Roger Ebbaston (2017) Review of "Tennyson's Elegy for the Anthropocene: Genre, Form, and Species Being". Journal of Literature and Science (pp. 85-86).
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