عنوان

Gerard Manley Hopkins's Incarnational Ecology

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LA125484

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Gerard Manley Hopkins's Incarnational Ecology

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[Article]

First Statement of Responsibility

James M. Cochran

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Leiden

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill

Text of Note

This essay examines Hopkins's "Binsey Poplars" from an incarnational theological lens. Such a reading negotiates seemingly incongruent arguments put forth by Post, who argues that Hopkins's ecological world is "other," and Day, who argues that Hopkins makes the ecological world comprehensible. Incarnational theology allows for a middle ground by preserving beings' uniqueness yet unifying them in a collective body. Additionally, reading the poem from an incarnational theological lens continues recent critical work that sees religious dimensions in the poem. Finally, this essay suggests that Hopkins's incarnational theology anticipates and speaks to contemporary ecological and ecocritical issues. As such, this essay reads contemporary and emerging ecocritical voices alongside Hopkins's poem to demonstrate the harmony between the theological and theoretical voices. This essay examines Hopkins's "Binsey Poplars" from an incarnational theological lens. Such a reading negotiates seemingly incongruent arguments put forth by Post, who argues that Hopkins's ecological world is "other," and Day, who argues that Hopkins makes the ecological world comprehensible. Incarnational theology allows for a middle ground by preserving beings' uniqueness yet unifying them in a collective body. Additionally, reading the poem from an incarnational theological lens continues recent critical work that sees religious dimensions in the poem. Finally, this essay suggests that Hopkins's incarnational theology anticipates and speaks to contemporary ecological and ecocritical issues. As such, this essay reads contemporary and emerging ecocritical voices alongside Hopkins's poem to demonstrate the harmony between the theological and theoretical voices.

Date of Publication

2017

Physical description

335-351

Title

Religion and the Arts

Volume Number

21/3

International Standard Serial Number

1568-5292

Subject Term

Catholicism

Subject Term

ecocriticism

Subject Term

ecology

Subject Term

ecotheology

Subject Term

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Subject Term

incarnational theology

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nineteenth-century literature

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poetry

James M. Cochran

Call Number

10.1163/15685292-02103002

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[Article]

275578

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