| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 309 pages) : illustrations |
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Literature now |
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Literature now
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| Contents |
1 Ecosickness -- Sickness in a Technoscientific Age 8 -- Life, Ethics, and Action 12 -- Ecosickness in the Field 19 -- Outline of the Book 27 -- 2 AIDS Memoirs Out of the City: Discordant Natures 31 -- Prologue 31 -- Contested Natures 39 -- North Enough's "Difficult Beauties" 46 -- The "Con" in Close to the Knives 55 -- Discordant Feelings, Suspicious Stances 65 -- Discord in Activism 72 -- 3 Richard Powers's Strange Wonder 77 -- "Weirdly Alive" with Wonder 81 -- "The Ordinary by Another Name" 93 -- "Struggling with Complex Interactions" 100 -- "The Ethic of Tending" 109 -- 4 Infinite Jest's Environmental Case for Disgust 117 -- Detached Dispositions 124 -- "Experial" Ambitions 130 -- Body Building 139 -- Affective Itineraries 145 -- How to Do Things with Disgust 152 -- 5 The Anxiety of Intervention in Leslie Marmon Silko and Marge Piercy 167 -- Disrupting the "Pattern of Disease" 170 -- "A Single Configuration" of Land and Body 175 -- Iniquitous Interventions 185 -- Anxious Apocalypse 195 -- Squirming and Trembling 208 |
| Summary |
This title traces the development of 'Ecosickness fiction' through an assessment of contemporary U.S. novels and memoirs. It describes how the 1970s brought about a new understanding of the biological and intellectual impacts that environmental crisis can have on human beings. It shows that at this time, as efforts to prevent ecological and bodily injury aligned, a new literature of sickness emerged. It explains that this 'Ecosickness fiction' imaginatively rethinks the link between environmental threats and the sick body to bring readers to environmental consciousness |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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Diseases in literature.
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Ecocriticism.
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Environmentalism in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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SCIENCE -- Environmental Science.
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American literature
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Diseases in literature
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Ecocriticism
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Environmentalism in literature
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Roman
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Umweltverschmutzung Motiv
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Ecocriticism
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic book
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2013041366 |
| ISBN |
9780231537360 |
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0231537360 |
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0231165145 |
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9780231165143 |
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0231165153 |
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9780231165150 |
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