TY - JOUR
T1 - “There is no out there”: trans-corporeality and process philosophy in Muriel Rukeyser’s The Speed of Darkness"
AU - Daw, Sarah
N1 - The acceptance date for this record is provisional and based upon the month of publication for the article.
PY - 2020/8/29
Y1 - 2020/8/29
N2 - Drawing extensively on Muriel Rukeyser’s archived notes, this essay reveals that Alfred North Whitehead’s “philosophy of organism” influences and shapes the experimental poetics that Rukeyser outlines in The Life of Poetry (1949). The “process” ecopoetics debuted in The Life of Poetry also facilitates Rukeyser’s radical reimagination of the human subject as dynamically entangled with an agential environment in her much-overlooked 1969 poetry collection, The Speed of Darkness. Establishing Whitehead as a major influence on Rukeyser’s ecopoetics makes a new case for her work’s significance to current material ecocritical debates and affirms her legacy and influence within contemporary ecopoetry.
AB - Drawing extensively on Muriel Rukeyser’s archived notes, this essay reveals that Alfred North Whitehead’s “philosophy of organism” influences and shapes the experimental poetics that Rukeyser outlines in The Life of Poetry (1949). The “process” ecopoetics debuted in The Life of Poetry also facilitates Rukeyser’s radical reimagination of the human subject as dynamically entangled with an agential environment in her much-overlooked 1969 poetry collection, The Speed of Darkness. Establishing Whitehead as a major influence on Rukeyser’s ecopoetics makes a new case for her work’s significance to current material ecocritical debates and affirms her legacy and influence within contemporary ecopoetry.
U2 - 10.1080/24692921.2020.1794465
DO - 10.1080/24692921.2020.1794465
M3 - Article (Academic Journal)
SN - 2469-293X
VL - 3
SP - 217
EP - 233
JO - Feminist Modernist Studies
JF - Feminist Modernist Studies
IS - 2
ER -