"Ancient Mariner Big Read"
"Ancient Mariner Big Read"

Hybridity in a Multimedia Ecoreading of S.T. Coleridge’s Ballad

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with an ecocritical reading of S.T. Coleridge’s "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" offered in a contemporary multimedia project "Ancient Mariner Big Read". The emphasis is laid on those elements of the project that convey pro-ecological message by presenting the human–nature relationships in a hybrid manner (by use of a hybrid and intertextual or interpictorial artistic form), thus constituting a creative development of the romantic ballad. A closer look is taken at the semantic shift that is visible in this new interpretation of the ballad. It consists in the shift of focus – as compared to traditional interpretations – from the romantic subject to the realm of nature, and so from the anthropocentric perspective to the ecocentric one.

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