Ronald L. Grimes
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195301441
- eISBN:
- 9780199850952
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195301441.003.0011
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter pushes the limits of the scholarly article as a genre amounting to an ecological poetics of ritual. It poses an outrageous question: Can ritual help save the planet? The chapter presents ...
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This chapter pushes the limits of the scholarly article as a genre amounting to an ecological poetics of ritual. It poses an outrageous question: Can ritual help save the planet? The chapter presents what looked more or less like poetry on the page, even though the original script was not written as poetry. The performance was preceded by the showing of a scene from The Music Man,〉 a 1961 film in which Robert Preston plays the huckster, Professor Harold Hill.Less
This chapter pushes the limits of the scholarly article as a genre amounting to an ecological poetics of ritual. It poses an outrageous question: Can ritual help save the planet? The chapter presents what looked more or less like poetry on the page, even though the original script was not written as poetry. The performance was preceded by the showing of a scene from The Music Man,〉 a 1961 film in which Robert Preston plays the huckster, Professor Harold Hill.
John Kinsella
Niall Lucy (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846314698
- eISBN:
- 9781846316142
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846316142
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
John Kinsella is known internationally as the acclaimed author of more than thirty books of poetry and prose, but in tandem with — and often directly through — his creative and critical work, ...
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John Kinsella is known internationally as the acclaimed author of more than thirty books of poetry and prose, but in tandem with — and often directly through — his creative and critical work, Kinsella is also a prominent activist. In this book the vegan anarchist pacifist poet claims that poetry can act as a vital form of resistance to a variety of social and ethical ills, in particular ecological damage and abuse. Kinsella builds on his earlier notion of ‘linguistic disobedience’ evolving out of civil disobedience, and critiques the figurative qualities of his poems in a context of resistance. The book includes explorations of anarchism, veganism, pacifism and ecological poetics. For Kinsella all poetry is political and can be a call to action.Less
John Kinsella is known internationally as the acclaimed author of more than thirty books of poetry and prose, but in tandem with — and often directly through — his creative and critical work, Kinsella is also a prominent activist. In this book the vegan anarchist pacifist poet claims that poetry can act as a vital form of resistance to a variety of social and ethical ills, in particular ecological damage and abuse. Kinsella builds on his earlier notion of ‘linguistic disobedience’ evolving out of civil disobedience, and critiques the figurative qualities of his poems in a context of resistance. The book includes explorations of anarchism, veganism, pacifism and ecological poetics. For Kinsella all poetry is political and can be a call to action.
