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| Titre : | The Entomological Imagination : Thomas Kinsella's Insect Poems (2017) |
| Auteurs : | Julia C. OBERT, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Irish University Review (Vol 47 n 2 Autumn/Winter 2017) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 360-372 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | Insects are central to Thomas Kinsella's poetic ecologies. First, they highlight Kinsella's interest in process and change. Many of his volumes thematize circularity and cyclicality, growth and decay, and insects' short lives make these metamorphoses available to poetic perception. Second, Kinsella uses insect behaviour to reflect on human relationality. Such relationality often cannot hold in Kinsella's work; it is frequently hierarchical or exploitative. However, an index swarm is a non-hierarchical, self-organizing group, a leaderless yet cooperative assemblage that privileges collective intelligence over individual talent. Modes of animal organization, Kinsella implies, might teach humans how to live more symbiotically. |
| Pays de publication : | Grande-Bretagne (Royaume Uni) |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
