| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 189 pages) |
| Contents |
"Kew Gardens" narrative ecology: Virginia Woolf's ecofeminist imagination and the narrative discovery of Jacob's Room -- "All taken together": ecological form in Mrs. Dalloway -- Singing the world in the waves: ecopoetics of Woolf's play-poem -- Living with the other: Jeanette Winterson's written on the body -- Multiplicity and coexistence in The powerbook -- The fiction of abundance and awareness: Jeanette Winterson's Lighthousekeeping -- Hotel world: a symbiotic narrative space -- Getting close: ecopoetics of intimacy in Ali Smith's Like -- Stories that change the world: Ali Smith's ecological "realityfiction." |
| Summary |
Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, and Ali Smith sharean ecological philosophy of the world as one highly interconnected entity comprisedof multiple and equal, human and non-human participants. This study argues thatthese writers' texts have an ecological significance in fostering respect for andunderstanding of difference, human and nonhuman |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Winterson, Jeanette, 1959- -- Criticism and interpretation
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Smith, Ali, 1962- -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Smith, Ali, 1962- fast |
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Winterson, Jeanette, 1959- fast |
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 fast |
| Subject |
Ecocriticism.
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Ecofeminism in literature.
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Women and literature.
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Literary studies: from c 1900-
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers.
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Ecological science, the Biosphere.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Literature.
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Ecocriticism
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Ecofeminism in literature
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Women and literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137349095 |
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1137349093 |
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1299717403 |
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9781299717404 |
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