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T1 Slow pilgrimage ecopoetics
T2 La eco-poética del lento peregrinaje
A1 Morrison, Susan Signe
K1 Pilgrimage
K1 Vernacular
K1 Slow ecopoetics
K1 Slow walking
K1 Landscape
K1 Textscape
K1 Contingency
K1 Medieval poetry
K1 Topopoetics
K1 Peregrinación
K1 Vernáculo
K1 Lenta ecopoética
K1 Lento andar
K1 Paisaje
K1 Espacio textual
K1 Contingencia
K1 Poesía medieval
K1 Topo-poética
K1 Literatura
K1 Literature
K1 Medio ambiente
K1 Environmental science
AB Focusing on fourteenth-century medieval pilgrimage poems and wayfaring between them and more contemporary texts, this essay explores how the constitutive elements of slow pilgrimage ecopoetics oscillate between the designed and accidental, both on the literal and literary levels. While design seems integral to the concept of pilgrimage—traveling from one’s home to a sacred shrine—in actuality pilgrims not infrequently strayed off the official path. Contingency, rather than randomness, acts as a dynamic agent affecting the meanderings of the pilgrim-walker. The slow walking of pilgrims contributed to a slow ecopoetics: slow travail on the actual road; slow change in the vernacular tongue used to articulate pilgrimage poetry; slow spiritual transformation ideally catalyzed by the acts of pilgrimage, walking or reading; and measured reading itself as a form of slow pilgrimage. "Amendment" as a concept and term recurs thematically in such texts, indicating material, spiritual, linguistic, and poetic changes. Actual paths trod upon by historical pilgrims modified over time. Such changes analogously parallel the literary realm, where competing versions of medieval pilgrimage poems were gradually amended and edited by their authors. Literary pilgrimage poems self-consciously commit themselves to promoting the vernacular. The ecopoetics of a specific living vernacular, a topopoetics, used by medieval pilgrimage writers sparks the spiritual change pilgrimage was meant to kindle. Pilgrim readers undertook textual wayfaring, as do pilgrim-writers through variant texts modified by the poet himself. A strategy of slow ecopoetics authorizes the reader to co-perform the text, advancing alongside the writer to co-create the literary work, responsive to a heterogenous audience. As contingent tenants, not masters of design, of both environment and poetry, pilgrims—historical and literary—contribute to a kind of vibrant resiliency as epitomized by slow pilgrimage ecopoetics.
PB Universidad de Alcalá
SN 2171-9594
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/37728
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/37728
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 18-abr-2024