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ABSTRACT How does one do ‘ecocritical Walter Benjamin’ in the city of London? As a professional flâneur between April 2019 and April 2020, I enlisted the support of Benjamin’s 1940 writings ‘Some Motifs in Baudelaire’ and ‘On the Concept of History’, and four poems from Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal. These lyrics explore entangled spaces between the human and nonhuman world. Benjamin developed two concepts – ‘shock’ and ‘shock experience’ (Chockerlebnis), the latter through his engagement with Baudelaire’s work. Therefore, ecopoetic analyses of Baudelaire’s ‘Correspondances’, ‘Obsession’ (1857), ‘Le Soleil’ and ‘Le Squelette Laboureur’ (1861) aided my analysis of four London sites: Lewisham’s train tracks, Sky Garden, Oxford Circus, and the Charterhouse Museum. Reading the four sites with the aid of Baudelaire’s lyrics allowed an unearthing and creation of dialectical images as they relate to the climate emergency.
一个人如何在伦敦做“生态批评家沃尔特·本雅明”?在2019年4月至2020年4月期间，作为一名专业fl作家，我得到了本雅明1940年的作品《波德莱尔的一些主题》和《历史概念》的支持，以及查尔斯·波德莱尔的《Mal Fleurs du Mal》中的四首诗。这些歌词探索了人类和非人类世界之间纠缠的空间。本雅明发展了两个概念——“冲击”和“冲击体验”(乔克莱布尼斯)，后者是通过他与波德莱尔的作品的接触而产生的。因此，对波德莱尔的《通信》、《痴迷》(1857)、《太阳》和《小苦工》(1861)的生态诗学分析有助于我分析伦敦的四个地点:刘易舍姆的火车轨道、空中花园、牛津广场和查特库斯博物馆。借助波德莱尔的歌词阅读这四个地点，可以挖掘和创造与气候紧急情况有关的辩证图像。
Green LettersArts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory
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Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism explores the relationship between literary, artistic and popular culture and the various conceptions of the environment articulated by scientific ecology, philosophy, sociology and literary and cultural theory. We publish academic articles that seek to illuminate divergences and convergences among representations and rhetorics of nature – understood as potentially including wild, rural, urban and virtual spaces – within the context of global environmental crisis.
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