The New German Nature Lyric
<i>Naturlyrik</i> has long been a contested category in German poetry, but however politically suspect some may find ‘Gespräch(e) über Bäume’ (Brecht), they are vitally important in the era of anthropogenic environmental collapse. The current generation of German-language poets have soug...
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| description | <i>Naturlyrik</i> has long been a contested category in German poetry, but however politically suspect some may find ‘Gespräch(e) über Bäume’ (Brecht), they are vitally important in the era of anthropogenic environmental collapse. The current generation of German-language poets have sought new ways of writing about the natural world and environments; these differ from, and draw on, pre-twentieth-century <i>Naturlyrik</i> as well as the complex, often critical, representations of nature in poetry after the Second World War. Representations of gardens and other human-‘managed’ natural spaces, references to and rewritings of German literary tradition, and the exploration of non-human voices and subjects all serve as means of restoring subjective fullness and complexity to <i>Naturlyrik</i>. The questions of voice and form which are central to the idea of the lyric genre as a whole are implicated in the development of a contemporary nature poetry beyond both Brecht and Benn, and Anthropocene <i>Naturlyrik</i> is pushing German lyric poetry itself into a new phase. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dd9c9660e43347cd8713399bff1d03892023-11-20T02:50:19ZengMDPI AGHumanities2076-07872020-06-01925010.3390/h9020050The New German Nature LyricNicola Thomas0Department of Comparative Literature and Culture, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK<i>Naturlyrik</i> has long been a contested category in German poetry, but however politically suspect some may find ‘Gespräch(e) über Bäume’ (Brecht), they are vitally important in the era of anthropogenic environmental collapse. The current generation of German-language poets have sought new ways of writing about the natural world and environments; these differ from, and draw on, pre-twentieth-century <i>Naturlyrik</i> as well as the complex, often critical, representations of nature in poetry after the Second World War. Representations of gardens and other human-‘managed’ natural spaces, references to and rewritings of German literary tradition, and the exploration of non-human voices and subjects all serve as means of restoring subjective fullness and complexity to <i>Naturlyrik</i>. The questions of voice and form which are central to the idea of the lyric genre as a whole are implicated in the development of a contemporary nature poetry beyond both Brecht and Benn, and Anthropocene <i>Naturlyrik</i> is pushing German lyric poetry itself into a new phase.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/9/2/50ecocriticismnature poetry<i>Naturlyrik</i>Yoko TawadaJan WagnerUlrike Draesner |
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| topic | ecocriticism nature poetry <i>Naturlyrik</i> Yoko Tawada Jan Wagner Ulrike Draesner |
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