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dc.contributor.advisorFalke, Cassandra
dc.contributor.authorLia, Edvard
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-18T05:36:10Z
dc.date.available2023-08-18T05:36:10Z
dc.date.issued2023-05-12en
dc.description.abstractWhy read poetry and fiction when the world is burning, drowning, and quaking? This thesis seeks to provide an answer by arguing for the political efficacy of contemporary ecopoetry and ecofiction. Instead of viewing reading as an escape from ecopolitical struggles, I show the limited but productive role of literature in a time of crisis. Read together, Juliana Spahr’s book of poetry This Connection of Everyone with Lungs (2005) and Amitav Ghosh’s novel The Hungry Tide (2004) illuminate the coordinates by which a viable response to the crisis must abide. The thesis centers around the question of finitude, especially how to relate to ecological limits and political forms. By drawing on Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s true infinity and Anna Kornbluh’s political formalism, I argue that we must reconceive the limits of nature not as external barriers to be overcome but as internal to any social order at all. Through a politically formalist examination of Spahr’s ecopoetry and Ghosh’s ecofiction, this thesis demonstrates the need for critiquing existing structures not to tear everything down but to imagine how future forms may be built differently.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/30047
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universitetno
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2023 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDENG-3992
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Litteraturvitenskapelige fag: 040::Engelsk litteratur: 043en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Literary disciplines: 040::English literature: 043en_US
dc.subjectHegelen_US
dc.subjectinfinityen_US
dc.subjectecopoetryen_US
dc.subjectecofictionen_US
dc.subjectecocriticismen_US
dc.subjectecopoliticsen_US
dc.titlePolitical Forms of Infinity in Contemporary Ecopoetry and Ecofiction: Why We Read in a Time of Crisisen_US
dc.typeMastergradsoppgavenor
dc.typeMaster thesiseng


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