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dc.contributor.authorBristow, Thomasen
dc.date.accessioned2012-05-04T09:49:00Z-
dc.date.issued2010-
dc.identifier.citationGreen Letters, v.13, p. 74-94en
dc.identifier.issn2168-1414en
dc.identifier.issn1468-8417en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/10065-
dc.description.abstract"I was often unable to think of external things as having external existence, and I communed with all that I saw as something not apart from, but inherent in, my own immaterial nature". --William Wordsworth, Preface to 'Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood'. "...the mutability of the external meeting the mutability of the internal". --Jorie Graham, 'The Art of Poetry, No. 85'. Rupert Hilyard's editorial for 'Green Letters' 10 noted the claim to John Burnside's 'ecocritical significance' by reading my discursive ruminations as vehicles to 'a kind of transcendental biosemiosis' (Hildyard, 2009: 4). This formulation - an emphasis on the role and importance of individual consciousness coupled to a scientifically grounded non-anthropocentric account of communication throughout nature - needs to be clarified and given rigorous ground for further studies that lay stress on the perceiver's vital and central role in determining meaning, and studies that disclose where and how communication flows. Burnside's career history in information systems and botany informs his association with process metaphysics, environmental temporality and phenomenology that have lead him to clarify his aesthetic-politico position in the following terms: 'living as a spirit' (Burnside, 2003b: 19), 'the science of belonging' (Crawford, 2006: 91), and to express a belief in 'a contingent self and a non-contingent soul' (Burnside, 200a: 22). These are a singular, cohesive theme in Burnside's poetry that suggests a biosemiotic version of Jonathan Bate's notion of the ecopoem perhaps heralding a 'post-phenomenological inflection of high Romantic poetics' (Bate, 2000: 262). I introduce how this can be witnessed in recent output by Burnside and then turn to earlier work to argue for a post-transcendental emergent poetics that reclaims a sense of affirmation of natural relationships (including physical and semiotic flows) as conscientious acknowledgement. I claim that this affirmation is scaffolded by an understanding of interactions between organisms and their environment. In Burnside's concern for social ecology and pragmatics, such scaffolding brings to light the poetic attempt to position an embodied interpretant within the lyrical 'I'. When the acknowledgement of world via an ecological consciousness / embodied interpretant interacts with an expanded understanding of communication it constitutes a bio-anthropological stance.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherAssociation for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE-UK)en
dc.relation.ispartofGreen Lettersen
dc.titlePhenomenology, History, Biosemiotics: Heideggerian and Batesonian Poetics in John Burnside's Post-Romantic Process Ecologyen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.subject.keywordsLiterary Theoryen
dc.subject.keywordsBritish and Irish Literatureen
local.contributor.firstnameThomasen
local.subject.for2008200503 British and Irish Literatureen
local.subject.for2008200525 Literary Theoryen
local.subject.seo2008969999 Environment not elsewhere classifieden
local.subject.seo2008970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Cultureen
local.subject.seo2008959999 Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classifieden
local.profile.schoolSchool of Artsen
local.profile.emailtbristo2@une.edu.auen
local.output.categoryC1en
local.record.placeauen
local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordune-20120416-103422en
local.publisher.placeBath, United Kingdomen
local.format.startpage74en
local.format.endpage94en
local.peerreviewedYesen
local.identifier.volume13en
local.title.subtitleHeideggerian and Batesonian Poetics in John Burnside's Post-Romantic Process Ecologyen
local.contributor.lastnameBristowen
dc.identifier.staffune-id:tbristo2en
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local.identifier.unepublicationidune:10256en
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitlePhenomenology, History, Biosemioticsen
local.output.categorydescriptionC1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journalen
local.relation.urlhttp://www.asle.org.uk/letters.htmlen
local.search.authorBristow, Thomasen
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local.year.published2010en
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