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Kaschnitz, Enzensberger, And Sandig: The Ecopoetics Of Water Pollution, Charlotte Melin
Kaschnitz, Enzensberger, And Sandig: The Ecopoetics Of Water Pollution, Charlotte Melin
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This ecocritical reading of Marie Luise Kaschnitz’s poetic cycle “Rückkehr nach Frankfurt” ‘Return to Frankfurt’ (1945/46), Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s epic poem Der Untergang der Titanic ‘The Sinking of the Titanic’ (1978), and a 21st-century poem by Ulrike Almut Sandig analyzes key shifts in poetic representations of water pollution. The essay explores underlying cultural and political attitudes about water that define literary depictions of its pollution. It argues that these texts register a conceptual turn away from aesthetic appreciation of water in terms of its culturally rich, purifying properties and toward scientific understanding that emphasizes the social …