Author(s)

Yaman Deng ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Foreign Studies, Guangxi Minzu University , Nanning, China

Corresponding Author

Yaman Deng

ABSTRACT

The plants in Elizabeth Bishop poems exhibit qualities of anti-correlationism, withdrawal, independence and speculation. These characteristics are similar to the position of Speculative Realism in regard to its view of objects. The similarity is reflected in the respect for the independence of things; the rejection of the anthropocentric view which lead to the underestimation of relations between objects. To respect, and treat the relationship between objects and other objects equally and seriously. It can be found that the plants in Bishop's writing is not a slave to anthropocentrism, but it has its own reality. It is not passively manipulated by humans, but has its own independence.

KEYWORDS

The plant writing, object, Speculative Realism, anti-correlationism, withdrawing

CITE THIS PAPER

Yaman Deng , A Study of Elizabeth Bishop's Plant Writing from the Perspective of Speculative Realism. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2023) Vol. 6: 7-10. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.060402.

REFERENCES

[1] Bishop, Elizabeth. "Elizabeth Bishop: The Complete Poems." New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux (1979). 
[2] Doreski, Carole Kiler. Elizabeth Bishop: the restraints of language. Oxford University Press, 1993. 
[3] Harman, Graham. Towards speculative realism: Essays and lectures. John Hunt Publishing, 2010.
[4] Bells and whistles: More speculative realism. John Hunt Publishing, 2013.
[5] Object-oriented ontology: A new theory of everything. Penguin UK, 2018.

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