Literary backwoods – on ecopoetics and active reading

About eco-poetics and active reading

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31261/TPDJP.2022.31.17

Keywords:

ecopoetics, poetry, anthropocene, critical reading, reading strategy in education

Abstract

The contemporary humanities are facing another crisis and need to take up a significant task – through education and critical reading of texts, the humanities have to clarify not only the understanding of such categories as anthropocene, capitalocene, and ecopoetics, or ecocriticism, but also create an active change in thinking and acting. The present article is an attempt at undertaking those challenges by reading into the above-mentioned threads in contemporary literature and trying to propose solutions that would make students sensitive to the content of nature. I discuss reading strategies and interpretation models that include such mechanism of reading literary texts in which ecologically engaged literature influences the perception and understanding of the world around us, thereby becoming literature participating in social processes.

Author Biography

Magdalena Piotrowska-Grot, University of Silesia in Katowice

Magdalena Piotrowska-Grot – holds a PhD in literary studies and is a literary critic. She writes reviews (published among others in ArtPapier, Opcje [Options], and Twórczość [Creative Output]), articles (published in multi-author publications and scholarly journals, among others in Forum Poetyki [The Poetics Forum] and Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne [The Poznań Polish Studies]) as well as two books of her singular authorship: W głąb. Szkice o współczesnej poezji Śląska i Zagłębia [Downwards: On the Contemporary Poetry of Silesia and the Dąbrowa Basin] and Przemeblowanie (w) wieczności. Wizje zaświatów w polskiej poezji współczesnej [Refurnishing (in) the Eternity. Visions of the Underworld in Contemporary Polish Poetry]. She
edits the Prezentacje section of the cultural online bi-weekly ArtPapier, in addition to being the secretary of the said bi-weekly’s editorial office. Her research interests include contemporary Polish poetry, the category of social engagement, spatial turn in literature, and Jewish literature and culture. As a coordinator of the Centre for Didactics at the Open University, University of Silesia in Katowice, she focuses on innovation in both academic and school didactics. In the afternoons, during strolls in canine company, she reflects on her recent readings.

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2022-12-28

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Piotrowska-Grot, M. (2022). Literary backwoods – on ecopoetics and active reading: About eco-poetics and active reading. Z Teorii I Praktyki Dydaktycznej Języka Polskiego, 31, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.31261/TPDJP.2022.31.17

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Vol. 31 (2022): Humanities education during climate crisis

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Literary and Cultural Education

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