Article ID: CBB445443277

Tennyson's Elegy for the Anthropocene: Genre, Form, and Species Being (2016)

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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.

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Review Roger Ebbaston (2017) Review of "Tennyson's Elegy for the Anthropocene: Genre, Form, and Species Being". Journal of Literature and Science (pp. 85-86). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Smith, Michelle J.
Rune Graulund
Murphy, Olivia
Rozario, Rebecca-Anne C. Do
Johan Anders Höglund
Justin D. Edwards
Concepts
Science and literature
Poetry and poetics
Extinction (biology)
Evolution
Science and culture
Species concept (biology)
Time Periods
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
Great Britain
England
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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