Act 5, Scene 2: Image(s)
An Image to End on - or to Begin with?
In summation to his attempt in reading transcendentalist poetry through an eco-critical lens, Robert Kern concludes:As a conclusive musing then, I cannot help but wonder, what if we substituted the image of Genesis, of origin, with another? What if we substituted the divine with the more-than-human world? Perhaps the (re)writing of the narrative of the anthropocene, by way of the 'pharmaeikṓn, could begin here...The point [...] is not that anthropocentrism and ecocentrism constitute a binary opposition, and that they are unavoidably at odds with each other [... rather] it is to acknowledge that ecocentrism has become a necessary supplement to our anthropocentrism. (443)
~ Vedika Rampal
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Cited Text:
- Kern, Robert. "Fabricating Ecocentric Discourse in the American Poem (And Elsewhere)." New Literary History 37, no. 2 (2006): 425-45. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20057951.