Afektivan zaokret ili ekološki zaokret: preispitano pjesništvo Mary Oliver

When it comes to discussions about affects, human beings become the center of attention. Yet, there are times when we find ourselves in some sort of in‐betweenness, where we cannot resolve whether we exert our influence on the non‐humans, or it is the non‐humans that trigger our bodies to respond in a certain way. The liminality witnessed at such times sheds light on the overlapping tendencies between ecocriticism and affect theory and encourages us to probe this issue more deeply. Accordingly, one may claim that a case study of Mary Oliver’s poems can fulfill the main objective of this short study regarding the fact that the mutuality of affect theory and ecocriticism can pave the way for gaining further insight into investigation of her poems, stemming from the fact that the speaker‐poet’s body and mind are the intersections of affective encounters with the rhythms of nature. The main conclusion that can be drawn from this research is that the application of the selected approach to Mary Oliver’s poetry will offer a workable solution to the mind/body dualism, whereby we witness the formation of various identities as a result of the effect of actions on other bodies and affective states.U raspravama o osjećajima ljudska bića postaju središte pozornosti. Postoje ipak trenutci kada se nađemo u nekoj vrsti međuprostora, u kojima ne možemo razriješiti imamo li svoje osjećaje prema ne‐ljudima ili su ne‐ljudi ti koji pokreću naše senzacije i daju im glas. Ograničenja svjedočenja u takvim vremenima bacaju svjetlo na preklapajuće tendencije između ekokritičnosti i utječu na teoriju te nas potiču da dublje istražimo ovo pitanje. U skladu s tim, istraživači vjeruju da studija slučaja odabranih djela Mary Oliver može ispuniti glavni cilj ove kratke studije, i to s obzirom na činjenicu da uzajamnost teorije afekta i ekokritičnosti može utrti put daljnjemu uvidu u istraživanje njezinih pjesama, proizlazeći iz činjenica da su tijelo i um govornika‐pjesnika sjecište sentimentalnih susreta s ritmovima Prirode