Academic literature on the topic 'Wright, judith, 1915-2000'

Judith Wright's (1915-2000) concern about man's disintegration with the natural world and the horror of the destruction of the earth reflects a high sense of ecological awareness caused by the threat of pollution that pervades the environment. Wright's ecopoetry draws attention to the danger of displacing oneself from the natural world that would also cause an inner alienation in man. The purpose of this paper is to explore Wright’s ecopoetical representation of the Australian ecology and its integral connection with Australia’s national unity. As the study examines Wright’s various volumes of poems, it argues that the lack of ecological awareness weakens the national and social fabric of Australia and deteriorates its environment. It also asserts that the poet’s ecopoetic quest for preserving the Australian ecology generates a new articulation of the Australian cultural identity and nationhood.

The aim of this thesis is to arrive at a characterisation of twentieth century poetry and science by means of a detailed study of the work of four poets who engaged extensively with science and whose writing lives spanned the greater part of the period. The study of science in the work of the four chosen poets, Hugh MacDiarmid (1892 – 1978), Judith Wright (1915 – 2000), Edwin Morgan (1920 – 2010), and Miroslav Holub (1923 – 1998), is preceded by a literature survey and an initial theoretical chapter. This initial part of the thesis outlines the interdisciplinary history of the academic subject of poetry and science, addressing, amongst other things, the challenges presented by the episodes known as the ‘two cultures' and the ‘science wars'. Seeking to offer a perspective on poetry and science more aligned to scientific materialism than is typical in the interdiscipline, a systemic challenge to Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) is put forward in the first chapter. Additionally, the founding work of poetry and science, I. A. Richards's Science and Poetry (1926), is assessed both in the context in which it was written, and from a contemporary viewpoint; and, as one way to understand science in poetry, a theory of the creative misreading of science is developed, loosely based on Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence (1973). The detailed study of science in poetry commences in Chapter II with Hugh MacDiarmid's late work in English, dating from his period on the Shetland Island of Whalsay (1933 – 1941). The thesis in this chapter is that this work can be seen as a radical integration of poetry and science; this concept is considered in a variety of ways including through a computational model, originally suggested by Robert Crawford. The Australian poet Judith Wright, the subject of Chapter III, is less well known to poetry and science, but a detailed engagement with physics can be identified, including her use of four-dimensional imagery, which has considerable support from background evidence. Biology in her poetry is also studied in the light of recent work by John Holmes. In Chapter IV, science in the poetry of Edwin Morgan is discussed in terms of its origin and development, from the perspective of the mythologised science in his science fiction poetry, and from the ‘hard' technological perspective of his computer poems. Morgan's work is cast in relief by readings which are against the grain of some but not all of his published comments. The thesis rounds on its theme of materialism with the fifth and final chapter which studies the work of Miroslav Holub, a poet and practising scientist in communist-era Prague. Holub's work, it is argued, represents a rare and important literary expression of scientific materialism. The focus on materialism in the thesis is not mechanistic, nor exclusive of the domain of the imagination; instead it frames the contrast between the original science and the transformed poetic version. The thesis is drawn together in a short conclusion.

本論文探討兩種修辭法- 象徵和隱喻-在表達自我的概念上的能力。朱迪思萊特的詩賦有強烈的倫理感。查爾斯泰勒的哲學則強調道德在現代自我的形成上所扮演的固有角色。萊特的作品所表達關於自我的概念，可藉著泰勒的學說找到亮光。
萊特相信現代人濫用科學和他們對科學思維的重視。萊特對此濫用的回應，影響著她的詩詞創作。她認為現代人對理性和客觀性的依賴使他脫離了他創作力和想像力。語言需要被振興來向人揭示他所擁有的語言財富。詩辭可以為他敞開新的方式來表達和觀看世界。
萊特對澳洲的景觀存著一份複雜的關係。「[她]生命中的兩條線 -對國土本身的熱愛和對本土人下場的深切不安」，在她的作品裡編織在一起。生於一個使原居民流離失所而致富的牧民家族，她的詩反映著她所背負的歷史罪疚感。萊特的詩闡述了她的內疚，並重申了她對國土的歸屬感。
萊特也因著人類與大自然的斷絶而哀悼。她將此等的斷絶歸究於人類對大自然資源的濫用開發。在她而言，大自然是一股永恆的力量，是充滿著不可否定的屬靈意義的。原住民文化重視土地，以它為生命和靈性的源泉，這是萊特認為現代人應當仿效的。環境的退化成了她的終身關注的政治議題。
朱迪思萊特的生命有三條主線 - 詩辭，為原住民的公義和保育。這三條線編織在一起，一方面使她的詩呈現著強烈的道德評價，也同時界定著她的自我身份。明顯地，詩辭 - 象徵與隱喻的重生 - 持續了她的希望，表達了她的關切，並塑造了像她如此的人和詩人。
This thesis examines the capacities of poetic language, symbol and metaphor, to articulate the self. Given the strong ethical direction of Judith Wright’s poetry, the notion of the self expressed in her work finds illumination in the philosophy of Charles Taylor whose writing on the modern self emphasizes the intrinsic role morality plays in its formation.
Underpinning Wright’s poetics is her response to what she believed was modern man’s misuse of science and his emphasis on scientific thinking. His reliance on rationality and objectivity had left him out of touch with his capacities for creativity and imagination. Language needed to be revitalized to reveal to man the wealth of language in his possession; poetry could open up for him new ways of expressing and seeing the world.
Wright’s relationship with the Australian landscape was complex. The “two threads of [her] life, the love of the land itself and the deep unease over the fate of its original people“, would “twine together in her work. Her poetry reflects the historical guilt she carried as a daughter of wealthy pastoralists who had displaced its original inhabitants. Poetry was Wright’s means of expiation of guilt and re-claiming her sense of belonging to the land.
Wright also mourned man’s loss of connection with nature which she attributed to his instrumental exploitation of its resources. Nature had always been for her an abiding force imbued with inescapable spiritual significance. The value Aboriginal culture placed in the land as a source of life and spirituality was, for Wright, a model for modern man to emulate. Environmental degradation remained for the poet a lifelong concern and political cause.
The three strands of Judith Wright’s life - poetry, justice for Aborigines, and conservation - are woven together to emerge as strong moral evaluations in her poetry and defining values in her identity. It is clear that poetic language - the re-constellating symbol and metaphor - sustained her with hope, enabled her to articulate her deep concerns and helped to shape the person and poet she became.
Detailed summary in vernacular field only.
Detailed summary in vernacular field only.
Detailed summary in vernacular field only.
Detailed summary in vernacular field only.
Detailed summary in vernacular field only.
Lamb, Kirsten Emma Wai-Ling.
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 117-119).
Abstracts also in Chinese.
Introduction
Chapter Chapter One --- : Wright and the Self
Chapter i. --- Poetry and the Re-constellation of Language
Chapter ii. --- Born of the Conquerors: Righting the Wrongs of Aboriginal Injustice
Chapter iii. --- “For Earth is Spirit“: Man’s Interconnectedness with Nature
Chapter iv. --- Charles Taylor
Chapter Chapter Two --- : The Self through Symbol
Chapter i. --- Symbols: “Powerful, efficacious, forceful“
Chapter ii. --- Wright’s Approach to the Symbol
Chapter iii. --- The Child
Chapter iv. --- Darkness
Chapter v. --- Fire
Chapter Chapter Three --- : The Self through Metaphor
Chapter i. --- Metaphors: Innovations of Language
Chapter ii. --- ‘Lament for Passenger Pigeons’: Escaping Disillusion through Metaphor
Chapter iii. --- ‘The Slope’: Resisting Despair through Metaphor
Chapter iv. --- ‘Train Journey’: Epiphany and Renewal through Metaphor
Chapter v. --- ‘To Hafiz of Shiraz’: Encountering the World through Metaphor
Chapter Chapter Four --- : Articulating the Self through Symbol and Metaphor
Chapter i. --- Repeat-able Symbol, Deplete-able Metaphor
Chapter ii. --- Symbols and Bound, Metaphors are Free
Chapter iii. --- Symbols and Metaphors
Concluding Thoughts
Bibliography