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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
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Engelska
Antal sidor
376
Utgivningsdatum
2015-05-06
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University of Minnesota Press
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13
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216 x 140 x 20 mm
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409 g
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1
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9780816692620

Stone

An Ecology of the Inhuman

av Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Häftad,  Engelska, 2015-05-06
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Stone maps the force, vivacity, and stories within our most mundane matter, stone. For too long stone has served as an unexamined metaphor for the really real: blunt factuality, natures curt rebuke. Yet, medieval writers knew that stones drop with fire from the sky, emerge through the subterranean lovemaking of the elements, tumble along riverbeds from Eden, partner with the masons who build worlds with them. Such motion suggests an ecological enmeshment and an almost creaturely mineral life. Although geological time can leave us reeling, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen argues that stones endurance is also an invitation to apprehend the world in other than human terms. Never truly inert, stone poses a profound challenge to modernitys disenchantments. Its agency undermines the human desire to be separate from the environment, a bifurcation that renders nature out there, a mere resource for recreation, consumption, and exploitation. Written with great verve and elegance, this pioneering work is notable not only for interweaving the medieval and the modern but also as a major contribution to ecotheory. Comprising chapters organized by concept Geophilia, Time, Force, and SoulCohen seamlessly brings together a wide range of topics including stones potential to transport humans into nonanthropocentric scales of place and time, the petrification of certain cultures, the messages fossils bear, the architecture of Bordeaux and Montparnasse, Yucca Mountain and nuclear waste disposal, the ability of stone to communicate across millennia in structures like Stonehenge, and debates over whether stones reproduce and have souls. Showing that what is often assumed to be the most lifeless of substances is, in its own time, restless and forever in motion, Stone fittingly concludes by taking us to Icelanda land that, writes the author, reminds us that stone like water is alive, that stone like water is transient.
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"A poignant and poetic book, Stone is a provocative contribution to anthropocene studies. Rather than naming humans as agents endowed with geologic force, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen contemplates our anxious collaboration with lithic matter that outlasts and eludes us. Stone is a must-read for anyone interested in rethinking the anthropocene within the geologic turn in literary and cultural studies." Stephanie LeMenager, University of Oregon "If our historic engagement with stone is the story of cave painting, toolmaking, and home building, Cohen wants to recover a secret history that moves beyond such utilitarian domination. His version is about collaboration and gregarious commingling between humans and stones."Los Angeles Review of Books "A gorgeous lovesong to lithic form, narrative endurance, and the urgent need to connect."The Bookfish:Thalassology, Shakespeare, and Swimming "Rendered eloquently, Cohens text is a useful attempt at crafting a unique theoretical framework for challenging assumptions about the differences between humans and nature."CHOICE "Ranging between the poetic and the pedantic, heroically imagining beyond its academic constraints, Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman presents a unique history that is central to some of our most urgent ecological concerns."The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada "An elegantly structured, stylistically-rich study in theory and criticism."SubStance "Stone is a beautifully written book that moves from scholarly engagement with medieval texts to more contemporary issues and ideas, as well as a deal of personal material, and etymological musings."The Years Work in Critical and Cultural Theory "Jeffrey Jerome Cohen offers a poetically charged account of stone as uncannily lively substance, the necessary ground for any articulation of ecological (and ethical) figures."Symploke 24 "a profound exploration of a fascinating topic, one that helps me in my own thinking on ecology and materiality, and one that may well stand the test of lithic time."KronoScope "Renders a usually inanimate and unchanging world both vivid and vibrant."Environmental History

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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is professor of English and director of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute at George Washington University. He is the author of Medieval Identity Machines and Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages, and the editor of Monster Theory: Reading Culture, Prismatic Ecology, and Elemental Ecocritism: Thinking with Earth, Air, Fire, and Water (all from Minnesota).

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Contents Introduction: Stories of Stone Geophilia: The Love of Stone Excursus: The Weight of the Past Time: The Insistence of Stone Excursus: A Heart Unknown Force: The Adventure of Stone Excursus: Geologic Soul: The Life of Stone Afterword: Iceland Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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