AN ECOCRITICAL APPROACH TO LUCIAN BLAGA’S THE WONDROUS SEED (MIRABILA SĂMÂNȚĂ) AND NOVEMBER SUMMER (VARĂ DE NOIEMBRIE)
AN ECOCRITICAL APPROACH TO LUCIAN BLAGA’S THE WONDROUS SEED (MIRABILA SĂMÂNȚĂ) AND NOVEMBER SUMMER (VARĂ DE NOIEMBRIE)

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses Lucian Blaga’s volumes The Wondrous Seed (Mirabila sămânță, 1962) and November Summer (Vară de noiembrie,1962) through the ecocritical lens, It discovers in a large number of poems in the respective volumes Greg Garrard’s ecocritical tropes, alongside with Jane Bennett’s ‛vital materialism’ and animism, Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann’s ‛material ecocriticism’ and, beings’ ‛porosity’ and Stacy Alaimo’s ‛transcorporeality’ of nature. It also identifies ecocritical neo-religious terms of the ‛reenchantment of David Ray Griffin’s and the desacred’ David Abram’s ‛more-than-human’ and JeffreyCohen’s ‛inhuman’. It discovers a number of hyperobjects corresponding to Timothy Morton’s work on the matter. It also finds out that Blaga uses the baroque oxymoron in quite a large number of poems. The translation of the quoted poems has been done by the author of this article.

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