Selfie: Poetry, Social Change & Ecological Connection presents the first general theory that links poetry in environmental thought to poetry as an environment. James Sherry accomplishes this task with a network model of connectivity that scales from the individual to social to environmental practices. Selfie demonstrates how parts of speech, metaphor, and syntax extend bidirectionally from the writer to the world and from the writer inward to identities that promote sustainable practices. Selfie shows how connections in the biosphere scale up from operating within the body, to social structures, to the networks that science has identified for all life. The book urges readers to construct plural identifications rather than essential claims of identity in support of environmental diversity.
Author(s): James Sherry
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 344
City: Singapore
Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Figures
Introduction
Multidirectional Writing
The Particles
Nouns & Things: Changing Their Climate
Verb Solutions Adapt
Borderlands: Am I I & They? Knowing Without Or
Syntax or How I Become What I Seem
Social Groups Scale: Identities & Connections
Perspectives on Combining
Social Syntax
How Can Culture Change Habitat?
Groups Build Social Syntax
Some Structures of Syntax: Parataxis & Hypotaxis
Scalable Syntax: Poetry Model of the Biosphere
The Anthropocene: Ecosystems & Time Frames
Networks of Metaphor
Connections Below Form in Poetry & Biology
Environmental Identities
Environmental Autobiography
Social Syntax II: Linkages & Connectors
Identity’s Constructive & Connective Ecosystem
The Condition & Hierarchy of Identification
Impact of Text & Environment on Another Self
Notes
Works Cited
Index
