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A material ecocritical approach to the poetry of Dylan Thomas
Abstract
Material ecocriticism, representing a material turn in ecocritical studies, is faithfully committed to undermine the anthropocentric ideology of humans’ superiority over the natural environment and reconfigures human and nonhuman beings as materially entangled entities whose stories as well as physical bodies are interwoven together. What essentially emphasized by the material ecocritical theory is the indistinguishable relatedness and the coexistence of the physical universe and the textuality, the mattfer and the language, human and nature. Demolishing human’s exceptional status over nature and rejecting any kind of human guardianship of nature, material ecocriticism unshackles nature from human representations, definitions or meanings and attributes vitality and agency to natural elements that are capable of producing meaningful stories of their own. Accordingly, Dylan Thomas (1924-1953) reinforces man’s situatedness within the earth throughout his poetry, instead of constructing impermeable discrepancies between human and nature. Thomas develops material ecological understanding of the universe in which human and nonhuman entities are biologically connected to each other. Therefore, the aim of this study is to analyze Dylan Thomas’ poetry from the perspective of material ecocriticism to provide an insight to Thomas’ depiction of nature as a dynamic entity rather than as a passive object.
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Kaynakça
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Edebi Çalışmalar , Sanat ve Edebiyat
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Yayımlanma Tarihi
21 Aralık 2022
Gönderilme Tarihi
20 Ekim 2022
Kabul Tarihi
20 Aralık 2022
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2022 Sayı: 31
APA
Bulut Sarıkaya, D. (2022). A material ecocritical approach to the poetry of Dylan Thomas. RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 31, 1495-1506. https://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.1222340
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Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi
https://doi.org/10.21497/sefad.1453214