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Published: 2014-01-01
No. 28 (2014)

Silent Life of Letters. On Interconnections between Language and Nature in the Poetry of R.S. Thomas

Joanna Soćko

Website: http://www.klp.us.edu.pl/pracownicy/95/mgr-joanna-socko/

Abstract

Joanna Soćko

Silent Life of Letters. 
On Interconnections between Language and Nature 
in the Poetry of R.S. Thomas.

The essay sets out to explore R.S. Thomas’ (1913–2000) vision of the problematic relations between the man, the nature and their Creator. In the context of contemporary critique as well as the 20th century, post-husserlian philosophy, the author analyses Thomas’ cosmological poems and represents, on the one hand, the place that both man and God take in the creation and, on the other, the sacramental relationship between the human and the nature. What is important from this perspective is the material existence of both man and nature, which enables mutual infiltration that leads to discovery of imperceptible dimension of materiality, which, in turn, influences both human consciousness and language. This is why the author asks about the role of science in Thomas’ poetry and about the influence that “the machine” has on language and consciousness.

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Soćko, J. (2014). Silent Life of Letters. On Interconnections between Language and Nature in the Poetry of R.S. Thomas. Er(r)go. Theory - Literature - Culture, (28). Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/ERRGO/article/view/2639

ER(R)GO nr 28 (1/2014) - contexts of ecocriticism

No. 28 (2014)
Published: 2014-01-01

ISSN: 1508-6305
eISSN: 2544-3186
Ikona DOI 10.31261/errgo
Publisher
University of Silesia Press | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego i Wydawnictwo Naukowe "Śląsk"
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