Symbiopoetics: Posthumanism and Ecology in 21st-Century Anthropocene Poetry

共生诗学：21世纪人类世诗歌中的后人类主义与生态学

• 批准号: 2436787
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2436787
• 关键词: Symbiopoetics; Posthumanism; Ecology; 21st; Century

Drawing on intersections of ecocritical and posthumanist theory, my DPhil will analyse 21st-century experimental poetry in the Anthropocene - a term coined in 2000, designating the current geological epoch, dominated by anthropogenic ecological change. The thesis will assess formal ramifications for contemporary poetry of scientific, technological, and ecological phenomena particular to the Anthropocene.The thesis will propose the term 'symbiopoetics' to designate analysis of the imbricated and entangled nature of poetic experiment in the Anthropocene. Throughout, I'll investigate 'symbiopoetic' works by J. H. Prynne, Jorie Graham, Juliana Spahr, Peter Larkin, Christian Bok, and others, employing inter alia philosophical and critical writings by Timothy Morton, Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, Anna Tsing, Michael Marder, and Isabelle Stengers. I shall also draw upon several critical anthologies - The Nonhuman Turn (2015), Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet (2017), and Veer Ecology (2017) - to situate key affects, aesthetics, and theoretical positions.The dissertation's first chapter will analyse Prynne's texts between Triodes (2000) and Squeezed White Noise (2020), including critical writings in his Stars, Tigers, and the Shape of Words (1992), recent lectures and commentaries, the forthcoming Complete Critical Prose of J. H. Prynne, and 'The J. H. Prynne Papers' archived at the Cambridge University Library. I'll respond to and critique essays in For the Future: Poems and Essays in Honour of J. H. Prynne (2016), and A Matter of Utterance: The Poetry of J. H. Prynne (2009). I aim to argue that Prynne's late lyricism is characterised by 'ecologies' of textual form, which disturb hierarchies or communication through use of non-literary or 'waste' discourses and hybrid lexical fields.In the thesis' second section, framing Graham's output from Never (2002) to Fast (2017), I'll argue that her earlier ecological intersubjectivity becomes progressively adapted to 'displacements' of life on a damaged planet. I aim to set up comparison with Spahr, similarly concerned with socio-political and collective implications of global heating and biodiversity loss. I assess ecological aspects of Spahr's work in The Transformation (2007) and Well Then There Now (2011). I aim to show how Graham and Spahr offer different intersubjective lyrical poetries haunted by exploited nonhuman life-worlds.In the third section, I analyse Larkin's recent poetry. Developing my published essay on Larkin, I focus on productions from Terrain Seed Scarcity (2000) to Trees Before Abstinent Ground (2019). Drawing upon Latour's 'network' theories and Marder's philosophical writings on plants, I analyse Larkin's 'ecosystemic' and entangled representation of forests and trees. I demonstrate Larkin's intimate and intricate symbiopoetics that explores ethical relations between human and non-human environments.A final chapter examines emerging conceptual directions for experimental poetry in the Anthropocene. I critically assess Bok's experiments with 'prosthetic' languages and 'bioart' in The Xenotext (2015), explicating his experiments between poetry and biotechnology, and compare his work to poets such as Adam Dickinson and Evelyn Reilly. I conclude by establishing theoretical summations of 'symbiopoetics' as a critical framework for poetry in the Anthropocene. The thesis aims to provide the most analytically extensive examination of posthumanism and ecopoetics to date. Farrier's Anthropocene Poetics (2019) collects a range of theoretical positions, but does not analyse the formal and aesthetic dimensions of poetic texts. Keller's Recomposing Ecopoetics (2018) examines only North American poetry, eschewing posthuman critical poetics in favour of traditional ecocritical readings. Solnick's Poetry and the Anthropocene (2017) places Prynne alongside formally conservative work by Mahon and Hughes.

我的博士生将利用生态批评和后人类主义理论的交叉点，分析人类世中的 21 世纪实验诗歌。人类世是 2000 年创造的一个术语，指的是当前由人为生态变化主导的地质时代。本论文将评估人类世特有的科学、技术和生态现象对当代诗歌的形式影响。本论文将提出“共生诗学”一词来指定对人类世诗歌实验的错综复杂和纠缠本质的分析。在整个过程中，我将研究 J. H. Prynne、Jorie Graham、Juliana Spahr、Peter Larkin、Christian Bok 等人的“共生诗”作品，其中包括 Timothy Morton、Donna Haraway、Bruno Latour、Anna Tsing、Michael 的哲学和批评著作。马德尔和伊莎贝尔·斯坦格斯。我还将借鉴几本批评选集——《非人类的转变》（2015年）、《受损星球上的生活艺术》（2017年）和《转向生态学》（2017年）——来定位关键的影响、美学和理论立场。分析白兰在 Triodes (2000) 和 Squeezed White Noise (2020) 之间的文本，包括他的《Stars》中的批评著作， 《Tigers, and the Shape of Words》（1992）、最近的讲座和评论、即将出版的《J. H. 白兰批判散文全集》以及剑桥大学图书馆存档的《J. H. 白兰论文》。我将回应和评论《为了未来：纪念 J. H. 白兰的诗歌和散文》（2016 年）和《言语问题：J. H. 白兰的诗歌》（2009 年）中的文章。我的目的是论证白兰晚期抒情主义的特点是文本形式的“生态”，它通过使用非文学或“浪费”话语和混合词汇领域来扰乱等级制度或交流。从“从不”（2002）到“快”（2017），我认为她早期的生态主体间性逐渐适应了生活的“置换”一个受损的星球。我的目的是与斯帕尔进行比较，斯帕尔同样关注全球变暖和生物多样性丧失的社会政治和集体影响。我在《转型》（2007 年）和《现在好了》（2011 年）中评估了斯帕尔作品的生态方面。我的目的是展示格雷厄姆和斯帕尔如何提供不同的主体间抒情诗歌，这些诗歌被被剥削的非人类生活世界所困扰。在第三部分，我分析了拉金最近的诗歌。在撰写关于拉金的文章时，我重点关注从《地形种子稀缺》（2000 年）到《禁欲地面前的树木》（2019 年）等作品。借鉴拉图尔的“网络”理论和马德关于植物的哲学著作，我分析了拉金对森林和树木的“生态系统”和纠缠表示。我展示了拉金亲密而复杂的共生诗学，探讨了人类与非人类环境之间的伦理关系。最后一章探讨了人类世实验诗歌的新兴概念方向。我在《The Xenotext》（2015）中批判性地评估了博克对“假体”语言和“生物艺术”的实验，解释了他在诗歌和生物技术之间的实验，并将他的作品与亚当·狄金森和伊芙琳·赖利等诗人进行了比较。最后，我建立了“共生诗学”的理论总结作为人类世诗歌的批判框架。本论文旨在对后人类主义和生态诗学进行迄今为止最广泛的分析研究。法里尔的《人类世诗学》（2019）收集了一系列理论立场，但没有分析诗歌文本的形式和美学维度。凯勒的《重构生态诗学》（2018）仅研究北美诗歌，避开后人类批判诗学，转而支持传统的生态批评解读。索尔尼克的《诗歌与人类世》（Poetry and the Anthropocene，2017）将白兰与马洪和休斯的正式保守派作品并列。