| Description |
1 online resource (x, 715 pages) |
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Handbooks of English and American studies ; volume 2 |
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Handbooks of English and American studies ; v. 2.
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| Contents |
0. Introduction ; Part I. Ecocritical Theories of Culture and Literature ; 1. The Lightest Burden: The Aesthetic Abductions of Biosemiotics ; 2. Earth's Poesy: Romantic Poetics, Natural Philosophy, and Biosemiotics ; 3. Merleau-Ponty and the Eco-Literary Imaginary |
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4. Ecology and Immanence 5. Paradox as Bedrock: Social Systems Theory and the Ungrounding of Literary Environmentalism in Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire ; 6. Aesthetics of Nature -- A Philosophical Perspective ; 7. Cultural Ecology of Literature -- Literature as Cultural Ecology |
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Part II. Issues and Directions of Contemporary Ecocriticism 8. Neither the 'Simple Backward Look' nor the 'Simple Progressive Thrust': Ecocriticism and the Politics of Prosperity ; 9. Political Ecology: Nature, Democracy, and American Literary Culture |
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10. Ecocriticism and Postcolonial Studies 11. Ecofeminisms, the Toxic Body, and Linda Hogan's Power ; 12. Ecocriticism, Place Studies, and Colm Tóibín's "A Long Winter": A Biocultural Perspective ; 13. Animal Studies: Kafka's Animal Stories |
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14. From Material to Posthuman Ecocriticism: Hybridity, Stories, Natures 15. Conciliation and Consilience: Climate Change in Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behaviour ; Part III. Between the Local and the Global: Cultural Diversity vs. Eco-Cosmopolitanism |
| Summary |
Ecocriticism has emerged as one of the most fascinating and rapidly growing fields of recent literary and cultural studies, which involves a decidedly transdisciplinary and international paradigm of research and teaching. The volume maps some of the most important developments within contemporary Ecocriticism from a variety of different angles, approaches, areas, and perspectives. It introduces relevant theoretical concepts and issues, and demonstrates their relevance for the analysis of texts and other cultural phenomena |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Ecocriticism.
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Ecology in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Subjects & Themes -- Nature.
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Ecocriticism
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Ecology in literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Zapf, Hubert, 1948- editor.
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| ISBN |
9783110314595 |
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3110314592 |
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9783110314595 |
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9783110394894 |
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3110394898 |
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9783110308372 |
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3110308371 |
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