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T1 Different shades of green: a dark green counterculture in Ted Hughes's "Crow"
A1 Lidström, Susanna
K1 Nature and religion
K1 Spirituality
K1 Christianity
K1 Science and technology
K1 Environmentalism
K1 Naturaleza y religión
K1 Espiritualidad
K1 Cristianismo
K1 Ciencia y tecnología
K1 Ecologismo
K1 Literatura
K1 Literature
K1 Medio ambiente
K1 Environmental science
AB This essay argues that Crow, a collection of poems by Ted Hughes published in 1970, forms part of a countercultural  ovement that began to emerge in the 1960s and that continues to  find new forms in the current century. In the form it takes in Crow, this movement protests against a relationship between humans and nature based on a primarily Christian world view combined with what it considers an exaggerated belief in science and technology. This combination and its relation to environmental crisis was first addressed by Lynn White in his classical article from 1967, “The Historical Roots of our Ecologic Crisis”. This analysis attempts to demonstrate that the Crow poems, written in the years immediately following the publication of White’s article, express a similar set of ideas in poetic form. Hughes goes a step further than White, and envisions an alternative, spiritual rather than religious, framework for the nature-­‐human relationship. This alternative is characterised as part of a counterculture described by Bron Taylor in Dark Green Religion. According to Taylor, dark green religion defines a variant of environmentalism based on a spiritual view of nature (similar but not identical to deep ecology). This essay suggests that Hughes’s Crow is a version of this counterculture.
PB Universidad de Alcalá
SN 2171-9594
YR 2013
FD 2013-04
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/20268
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/20268
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 26-abr-2024