American Short Verse and Micro-Ecologies, 1860 to the Present

美国短诗与微生态学，1860 年至今

• 批准号: EP/X028666/1
• 负责人: Fiona Green
• 金额: $ 31.45万
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FX028666%2F1
• 关键词: American; Short; Verse; Micro; Ecologies

In both academic and popular discourses, climate change is often imagined at proportions so large it challenges conceptualisation. This project attempts to refocus debates in the environmental humanities away from the large-scale by exploring how poetry, especially very short verse, helps document environmental destruction at the level of the microhabitat--from backyards to municipal parks. The history of short verse in America--ranging from the monostich (a one-line poem) to the sonnet (14 lines)--can be traced back to the 1860s, its rising appeal paralleling the acceleration of anthropogenic climate change. The genre's wide use amongst American poets from Emily Dickinson to Rae Armantrout has created an important yet unexplored repository of ecological knowledge. Drawing together the fields of poetics and the environmental humanities, my project will endeavour to synthesise archival, literary critical, and digital methods in order to investigate this vital poetic corpus.

在学术和流行的讨论中，气候变化的比例常常被想象得如此之大，以至于对概念化提出了挑战。该项目试图通过探索诗歌（尤其是短诗）如何帮助记录从后院到市政公园的微生境层面的环境破坏，将环境人文学科的争论重新集中在大规模的争论上。美国短诗的历史——从单行诗（一首单行诗）到十四行诗（14 行）——可以追溯到 1860 年代，其吸引力的上升与人为气候变化的加速并行。从艾米莉·狄金森到雷·阿曼特劳特，这一流派在美国诗人中广泛使用，创造了一个重​​要但未经探索的生态知识宝库。我的项目将诗学和环境人文领域结合在一起，努力综合档案、文学批评和数字方法，以研究这一重要的诗学语料库。