| Description |
xiii, 266 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge Companions to Literature |
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Cambridge companions to literature.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Introduction Louise Westling; Part I. Foundations: 1. Pastoral, anti-pastoral, and post-pastoral Terry Gifford; 2. The green otherworlds of early medieval literature Alfred Siewers; 3. "Mapping by Words": the politics of land in Native American literature Shari Huhndorf; Part II. Theories: 4. Ecocritical theory: romantic roots and impulses from twentieth-century European thinkers Axel Goodbody; 5. Nature, post nature Timothy Clark; 6. Violent affinities: sex, gender, and species in Cereus Blooms at Night Catriona Sandilands; 7. The lure of the wilderness Leo Mellor; Part III. Interdisciplinary Engagements: 8. "Tongues I'll hang on every tree": biosemiotics and the Book of Nature Wendy Wheeler; 9. Sauntering along the border: Thoreau, Nabhan, and food politics Janet Fiskio; 10. Animal studies, literary animals, and Yann Martel's Life of Pi Sarah McFarland; Part IV. Major Directions: 11. Environmental justice, cosmopolitics, and climate change Joni Adamson; 12. Systems and secrecy: postcolonial ecocriticism and Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome Bonnie Roos and Alex Hunt; 13. Environmental crises and East Asian literatures: uncertain presents and futures Karen Thornber; 14. Confronting catastrophe: ecocriticism in a warming world Kate Rigby; 15. Ecocinema and the wildlife film Stephen Rust |
| Summary |
"This authoritative collection of rigorous but accessible essays investigates the exciting new interdisciplinary field of environmental literary criticism" |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Ecocriticism.
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Nature in literature.
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Ecology in literature.
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Environmental literature -- History and criticism.
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| Author |
Westling, Louise Hutchings.
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| ISBN |
9781107029927 (hbk) |
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1107029929 (hbk) |
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9781107628960 (paperback) |
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1107628962 (paperback) |
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