“There is no out there”: trans-corporeality and process philosophy in Muriel Rukeyser’s The Speed of Darkness

Daw, Sarah 2020. “There is no out there”: trans-corporeality and process philosophy in Muriel Rukeyser’s The Speed of Darkness. Feminist Modernist Studies 3 (2) 10.1080/24692921.2020.1794465

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Abstract

Drawing extensively on Muriel Rukeyser’s archived notes, this essay reveals that Alfred North Whitehead’s “philosophy of organism” influences and shapes the experimental poetics that Rukeyser outlines in The Life of Poetry (1949). The “process” ecopoetics debuted in The Life of Poetry also facilitates Rukeyser’s radical reimagination of the human subject as dynamically entangled with an agential environment in her much-overlooked 1969 poetry collection, The Speed of Darkness. Establishing Whitehead as a major influence on Rukeyser’s ecopoetics makes a new case for her work’s significance to current material ecocritical debates and affirms her legacy and influence within contemporary ecopoetry.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > English, Communication and Philosophy
ISSN:	2469-293X
Last Modified:	28 Mar 2025 17:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/177266

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