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'Entanglement in fir : thinking matter in Peter Larkin’s “praying // firs \\ attenuate”'
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Mason, Emma (2017) 'Entanglement in fir : thinking matter in Peter Larkin’s “praying // firs \\ attenuate”'. Religions, 9 (1). doi:10.3390/rel9010001 ISSN 2077-1444.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel9010001
Abstract
This article reads Peter Larkin’s poem “praying // firs \\ attenuate” (2014) as a way to think the divine in relation to the ecological as a mutual poetic giving. It suggests that the poem entangles the reader in a series of relational imaginings that complicates the modern commodification of the nonhuman and questions a secular fatigue with the divine. Through a Catholic metaphysics in which all things—human, nonhuman, holy—are entangled, Larkin’s religious ecology maps the way to horizons promising that which cannot yet be imagined. In an entangled, layered, rhythmic, and echoing poetic form, Larkin reveals the intimate relationship between plenitude and the attenuated, gift and scarcity.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BD Speculative Philosophy B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BR Christianity P Language and Literature > PR English literature |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Larkin, Peter,1946-, Ecology--Poetry, Metaphysics, Religion and poetry, Human ecology--Religious aspects | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Religions | ||||||
| Publisher: | MDPI | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2077-1444 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 21 December 2017 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 9 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| Number of Pages: | 10 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.3390/rel9010001 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 19 December 2017 | ||||||
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