| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 266 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge Companions to literature |
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Cambridge companions to literature.
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| Contents |
Pastoral, anti-pastoral, and post-pastoral / Terry Gifford -- The green otherworlds of early medieval literature / Alfred Siewers -- "Mapping by Words": the politics of land in Native American literature / Shari Huhndorf -- Ecocritical theory: romantic roots and impulses from twentieth-century European thinkers / Axel Goodbody -- Nature, post nature / Timothy Clark -- Violent affinities: sex, gender, and species in Cereus Blooms at Night / Catriona Sandilands -- The lure of the wilderness / Leo Mellor -- "Tongues I'll hang on every tree": biosemiotics and the Book of Nature / Wendy Wheeler -- / Sauntering along the border: Thoreau, Nabhan, and food politics / Janet Fiskio -- Animal studies, literary animals, and Yann Martel's Life of Pi / Sarah McFarland -- Environmental justice, cosmopolitics, and climate change / Joni Adamson -- Systems and secrecy: postcolonial ecocriticism and Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome / Bonnie Roos and Alex Hunt -- Environmental crises and East Asian literatures: uncertain presents and futures / Karen Thornber -- Confronting catastrophe: ecocriticism in a warming world / Kate Rigby -- 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ecocriticism.
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Ecology in literature.
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Environmental literature -- History and criticism.
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Nature in literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Westling, Louise Hutchings, editor
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| ISBN |
113934272X (electronic bk.) |
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9781139342728 (electronic bk.) |
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