Woven Shades of Green: An Anthology of Irish Nature Literature ed. by Tim Wenzell

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 148-149
Author(s):  
Maurice Harmon
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2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 169-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Turner ◽  
Bill Freedman

The relationships of people with the natural world are expressed in diverse ways, including painting, photographs, sculpture, song, video, and literature. In this document, we review historical and contemporary portrayals of nature as a theme in Canadian literature. Our assessment is intended to explore how Canadians have articulated their feelings about nature through literary expression, and to thereby gain insight into their empathy for natural ecosystems and native species, and their concern about damage caused to those values. We begin with a broad overview of nature as a theme in cultural expression, including overarching ones in Canadian literature, and discuss the influential literary views of Northrop Frye, Margaret Atwood, and their critics. We then examine the expression of nature within seven focal areas: early aboriginal expression, narratives of explorers, stories of settlers, the genre of animal stories, 20th-century poetry, recent aboriginal literature, and environmental ideas in contemporary prose. We identify six dominant themes of the expression of nature in Canadian literature: (1) humans as a part of nature; (2) a bounty of natural resources; (3) fear of an adversarial wilderness; (4) improvement of nature; (5) regret of environmental damage and perhaps despair of the future; and (6) love and respect of species and natural landscapes. Finally, we discuss how nature as a theme embedded in Canadian literature can be harnessed to further the compelling objectives of environmental literacy by providing sympathetic insights into the relationships of people and society with the species and ecosystems with which they share Canada.Key words: nature, literature, culture, Canada, environmental literacy.


2020 ◽  
pp. 100-149
Author(s):  
David-Antoine Williams

This chapter discusses ways in which three poets approach etymology as a vehicle of cultural recirculation. The section on Seamus Heaney describes his career as deepening three lines of etymological influence—Old English, Irish, and Latin—beginning in an imitative and versioning mode, and concluding with direct translations. For Heaney, the etymological substrate confers ‘aura and authenticity’, which results in etymological figures that are self-buttressing and self-confirming, qualities he also ascribes to poetry more generally. R. F. Langley’s ‘semiosis of the forest’ is discussed with reference to a number of poems and journal entries, which make attempts at recirculating human experiences, especially of nature, literature, and scholarship, into a poetic present. The chapter concludes with a reading of J. H. Prynne’s Kazoo Dreamboats; or, On What There Is as performing an ‘atomic etymology’, breaking down language and literature into elemental particles which are then reassembled according to new ontologies.


Humanities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josephine Donovan

In nature the transformation of dead matter (objects) into living matter endowed with green energy or subjectivity is called emergence. Art itself, I argue, is an emergence phenomenon, enacting and replicating in theme and form emergence in nature. Literature thus conceived is about the emergence of spirit. It depicts forces that suppress spirit and enables the spiritual in nature to find expression. It gives voice to spirit rising. Mimesis is thus reconceived as a replication of the natural phenomenon of emergence, which brings to life what has hitherto been seen as object, dead matter. This article outlines the concept of emergence in current philosophical and scientific theories; examines the aesthetic precursors of emergence theory in certain Frankfurt School theorists, notably Theodor Adorno; and applies emergence aesthetic theory to a contemporary novel, Richard Powers’ The Overstory (2018).


1990 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 33-44
Author(s):  
Thomas R. Dunlap

Author(s):  
Ivone Martins Gomes ◽  
Flávia Alves Ribeiro Monclùs Romanek

A histerectomia consiste na remoção cirúrgica do útero, órgão relacionado à sexualidade, aos aspectos emocionais, sociais e familiares; o que requer assistência de enfermagem perioperatória especializada. O objetivo deste estudo foi descrever qual é a assistência de enfermagem perioperatória em histerectomia. É de natureza exploratória, de revisão bibliográfica, utilizando como objetos os artigos eletrônicos na base de dados LILACS e SCIELO. Utilizando os seguintes descritores: enfermagem, perioperatória, histerectomia, cuidados pré-operatório, centro cirúrgico, foram considerados os últimos 10 anos de publicação. A abordagem empregada à qualitativa do tipo “análise de conteúdo”. A partir da literatura pesquisada, obteve-se como principais resultados em relação ao pré-operatório que o cuidado de enfermagem deve ser voltado aos aspectos emocionais da mulher que terá o útero totalmente ou parcialmente retirado o pode lhe significar o fim do ciclo reprodutivo e da sexualidade, além das orientações relacionadas ao preparo antes da cirurgia dos aspectos biológicos, psicológicos, sociais e espirituais. Assim, conclui-se que a Enfermagem Perioperatória deve cuidar da mulher submetida à HTA como um ser humano com sentimentos e necessidades humanas próprias.Descritores: Enfermagem Perioperatória, Histerectomia, Centro Cirúrgico. Perioperative nursing: care to women subjected to hysterectomyAbstract: Hysterectomy is the surgical removal of the uterus, the organ related to sexuality, the emotional, social and family; requiring specialized perioperative nursing care. The aim of this study was to describe what the perioperative nursing care for hysterectomy. It is exploratory in nature, literature review, using the electronic items as objects in the database LILACS and SciELO. Using the following descriptors: nursing, perioperative, hysterectomy, preoperative care, surgery, were considered the last 10 years of publication. The approach to the qualitative type content analysis. From the literature, was obtained as the main results in relation to preoperative nursing care should be directed to the emotional aspects of the woman who has uterus totally or partially withdrawn it may mean the end of the reproductive cycle and sexuality, and guidelines related to the preparation before surgery of biological, psychological , social and spiritual. Thus, it is concluded that the Perioperative Nursing should take care of women submitted to HTA as a human being with feelings and human needs themselves.Descriptors: Perioperative Nursing, Hysterectomy, Surgery Center. Enfermería perioperatoria: la atención a las mujeres sometidas a la histerectomiaResumen: La histerectomía es la extirpación quirúrgica del útero, el órgano relacionado con la sexualidad, la familia social y emocional, que requiere atención especializada de enfermería perioperatoria. El objetivo de este estudio fue describir lo que el cuidado de enfermería perioperatoria para la histerectomía. Es de carácter exploratorio, revisión de la literatura, utilizando los elementos electrónicos como objetos en las bases de datos LILACS y SciELO. Con los siguientes descriptores: cuidado, perioperatorias, la histerectomía, la atención preoperatoria, la cirugía, se consideraron los últimos 10 años de su publicación. El enfoque para el tipo de análisis de contenido cualitativo. A partir de la literatura, se obtuvo como los principales resultados en relación con los cuidados de enfermería preoperatoria debe dirigir se a los aspectos emocionales de la mujer que tiene útero, total o parcialmente retirada puede significar el final del ciclo reproductivo y sexualidad y directrices relativas a la preparación antes de la cirugía de factores biológicos, psicológicos, sociales y espirituales. Por lo tanto, se concluye que la Enfermería Perioperatoria debe tener cuidado de mujeres sometidas a la HTA como un ser humano con sentimientos y necesidades humanas a sí mismos.Descriptores: Enfermería Perioperatoria, Histerectomía, Centro Quirúrgico.


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