The New Poetics of Climate Change: Modernist Aesthetics for a Warming World

by Matthew Griffiths

Book Overview

Climate change is the greatest issue of our time - and yet too often literature on the subject is considered only in the bracket of 'environmental' writing, divorced from culture, society and politics. The New Poetics of Climate Change argues instead that the emergence of global warming presents a fundamental challenge to the way we read and write poetry - the way we think - in the modern age.

In this important new book, Matthew Griffiths...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474282091
• ISBN13: 9781474282093
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"