{"id":1062,"date":"2021-12-02T10:16:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T10:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2021-12-09T10:41:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T10:41:14","slug":"domonique-davies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing\/domonique-davies\/","title":{"rendered":"Domonique Davies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PhD Project: Ecocriticism&#8217;s address of issues surrounding human and nonhuman relationships.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Funding: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/gs-regional-bursary\/\">Reading Regional Bursary<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Supervisors: Professor Steven Matthews, Dr Yasmine Shamma (Reading).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1033 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/138\/2021\/12\/Domonique_Research-Image-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"display of book spines, poetry of Wallace Stevens\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My PhD considers ecocriticism\u2019s address of issues surrounding human and nonhuman relationships. Christopher Manes, in \u2018Nature and Silence\u2019 (1996), argues that shifts from spoken language to writing paved the way for anthropocentric Western thinking, leading to current epistemological divisions between human and world. Language and text are therefore implicated in the instigation and development of the current ecological crisis. Drawing on these thematic and rhetorical issues, I intend to apprehend this shift in a revisionist reading of Wallace Stevens\u2019s poetry, essays, and letters. Even as one of the most well-read American poets, Stevens remains overlooked in the field of ecocriticism. With this project, I seek to re-evaluate Stevens\u2019s writing to resituate him within the field of ecopoetics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I ask the following questions in relation to Stevens\u2019s work and the literary entanglements with the ecological crisis:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How do readers and writers recognise and communicate non-human voices through an inherently anthropocentric communication system?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Can poetry help to create an alternate path towards a more ecologically sustainable world?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Can ecocritics overcome the literary and linguistic entanglement at the base of the ecological crisis?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Can the human voice truly be decentred via written text, and if so, how?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How does linguistic sound in poetry create meaning beyond human forms of communication?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Twitter: @DomoniqueWrites<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhD Project: Ecocriticism&#8217;s address of issues surrounding human and nonhuman relationships. 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