Coleridge and the Economy of Nature
Coleridge and the Economy of Nature
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柯勒律治与自然经济
DOI:
10.1057/9780312299514_2
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发表时间:
1996
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0.1
通讯作者:
James C. McKusick
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作者:
James C. McKusick
This chapter seeks to assess the significance of ecological thought in Coleridge’s intellectual development, and to examine the relevance of this way of thinking to our understanding of his poetry and prose. The main purpose of such an approach to Coleridge will be to elucidate, and perhaps to defamiliarize, the ways in which crucial aspects of his poetic language emerge from his perceptual and affective engagement with the local environment. An ecological reading of Coleridge will enable certain aspects of his conception of poetic form and his actual poetic practice to be understood more adequately than previous critical perspectives have allowed. In particular, the synergistic relationship between an individual organism and its habitat, which was first coming to be understood in its full complexity by late-eighteenth-century science, offers a fresh and suggestive model for analyzing the role of organicism in Coleridge’s poetic thought.