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51 produkter
Ecocriticism and Shakespeare
Reading Ecophobia
Inbunden, 2011
1259 kr
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This book offers the term 'ecophobia' as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world. Estok argues that this vocabulary is both necessary to the developing area of ecocritical studies and for our understandings of the representations of 'Nature' in …
Ecofeminist Approaches to Early Modernity
Av J. Munroe, R. Laroche
Inbunden, 2011
634 kr
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Challenges the notion of how early modern women may or may not have spoken for (or even with) nature. By focusing on various forms of 'dialogue,' these essays shift our interest away from speaking and toward listening, to illuminate ways that early modern Englishwomen interacted with their natural …
Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives
Environmental Postcolonialism in Australia and Canada
Av K. Crane
Inbunden, 2012
635 kr
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The concept of 'wilderness' as a foundational idea for environmentalist thought has become the subject of vigorous debates. Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives offers a taxonomy of the forms that wilderness writing has taken in Australian and Canadian literature, re-emphasizing both …
East Asian Ecocriticisms
A Critical Reader
Inbunden, 2013
635 kr
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East Asian Ecocriticisms presents original essays from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China that define and characterize trends in East Asian ecocriticism. Drawing on diverse theoretical perspectives in environmental thought and scholarship, this volume presents valuable and original contributions …
Environmental Imaginary in Brazilian Poetry and Art
Av M. McNee
Inbunden, 2014
635 kr
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This study contributes to ongoing discussions on the connections between the environmental imaginary and issues of identity, place and nation. Utilizing a delimited ecocritical approach, McNee puts Brazilian culture, through the work of contemporary poets and visual artists, into a broader, …
Ecocriticism and Shakespeare
Reading Ecophobia
Häftad, 2014
1263 kr
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This book offers the term 'ecophobia' as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world. Estok argues that this vocabulary is both necessary to the developing area of ecocritical studies and for our understandings of the representations of 'Nature' in …
Ecology of Wonder in Romantic and Postmodern Literature
Inbunden, 2016
1137 kr
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This book traces the aesthetic of wonder from the romantic period through contemporary philosophy and literature, arguing for its relevance to ecological consciousness. Most ecocritical scholarship tends to overshadow discussions of wonder with the sublime, failing to treat these two aesthetic …
Foodscapes of Contemporary Japanese Women Writers
An Ecocritical Journey around the Hearth of Modernity
Av Masami Yuki
Inbunden, 2015
1074 kr
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Translated from Japanese, this study exposes English-language scholars to the complexities of the relationship between food, culture, the environment, and literature in Japan. Yuki explores the systems of value surrounding food as expressed in four popular Japanese female writers: Ishimure Michiko, …
Green Modernism
Nature and the English Novel, 1900 to 1930
Inbunden, 2015
886 kr
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One of the first studies to explore the relationship between environmental criticism and British modernism, Green Modernism explores the cultural function of nature in the modernist novel between 1900 and 1930. This theoretically engaged, historically informed book brings new materialist insights …
German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene
Av Caroline Schaumann, Heather I. Sullivan
Inbunden, 2017
2015 kr
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This book offers essays on both canonical and non-canonical German-language texts and films, advancing ecocritical models for German Studies, and introducing environmental issues in German literature and film to a broader audience. This volume contextualizes the broad-ranging topics and authors in …
Ecocriticism and Shakespeare
Reading Ecophobia
Häftad, 2011
1378 kr
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This book offers the term 'ecophobia' as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world. Estok argues that this vocabulary is both necessary to the developing area of ecocritical studies and for our understandings of the representations of 'Nature' in …
Ecofeminist Approaches to Early Modernity
Av J. Munroe, R. Laroche
Häftad, 2011
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Challenges the notion of how early modern women may or may not have spoken for (or even with) nature. By focusing on various forms of 'dialogue,' these essays shift our interest away from speaking and toward listening, to illuminate ways that early modern Englishwomen interacted with their natural …
Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives
Environmental Postcolonialism in Australia and Canada
Av K. Crane
Häftad, 2012
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The concept of 'wilderness' as a foundational idea for environmentalist thought has become the subject of vigorous debates. Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives offers a taxonomy of the forms that wilderness writing has taken in Australian and Canadian literature, re-emphasizing both …
East Asian Ecocriticisms
A Critical Reader
Häftad, 2013
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
East Asian Ecocriticisms presents original essays from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China that define and characterize trends in East Asian ecocriticism. Drawing on diverse theoretical perspectives in environmental thought and scholarship, this volume presents valuable and original contributions …
Environmental Imaginary in Brazilian Poetry and Art
Av M. McNee
Häftad, 2014
635 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This study contributes to ongoing discussions on the connections between the environmental imaginary and issues of identity, place and nation. Utilizing a delimited ecocritical approach, McNee puts Brazilian culture, through the work of contemporary poets and visual artists, into a broader, …
Green Modernism
Nature and the English Novel, 1900 to 1930
Häftad, 2016
698 kr
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One of the first studies to explore the relationship between environmental criticism and British modernism, Green Modernism explores the cultural function of nature in the modernist novel between 1900 and 1930. This theoretically engaged, historically informed book brings new materialist insights …
Literary Heritage of the Environmental Justice Movement
Landscapes of Revolution in Transatlantic Romanticism
Av Lance Newman
Inbunden, 2019
964 kr
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The Literary Heritage of the Environmental Justice Movement showcases environmental literature from writers who fought for women’s rights, native rights, workers’ power, and the abolition of slavery during the Romantic Era. Many Romantic texts take flight from society and enact solitary white male …
Literary Heritage of the Environmental Justice Movement
Landscapes of Revolution in Transatlantic Romanticism
Av Lance Newman
Häftad, 2019
964 kr
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The Literary Heritage of the Environmental Justice Movement showcases environmental literature from writers who fought for women’s rights, native rights, workers’ power, and the abolition of slavery during the Romantic Era. Many Romantic texts take flight from society and enact solitary white male …
Literature, Pedagogy, and Climate Change
Text Models for a Transcultural Ecology
Inbunden, 2019
964 kr
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Literature, Pedagogy, and Climate Change: Text Models for a Transcultural Ecology asks two questions: How do we read (in) the Anthropocene? And what can reading teach us? To answer these questions, the book develops a concept of transcultural ecology that understands fiction and interpretation as …
Literature, Pedagogy, and Climate Change
Text Models for a Transcultural Ecology
Häftad, 2020
964 kr
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Literature, Pedagogy, and Climate Change: Text Models for a Transcultural Ecology asks two questions: How do we read (in) the Anthropocene? And what can reading teach us? To answer these questions, the book develops a concept of transcultural ecology that understands fiction and interpretation as …
Ecocriticism and Asian American Literature
Gold Mountains, Weedflowers and Murky Globes
Inbunden, 2020
1023 kr
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Ecocriticism and Asian American Literature: Gold Mountains, Weedflowers, and Murky Globes offers an ecocritical reinterpretation of Asian American literature. The book considers more than a century of Asian American writing, from Eaton’s Mrs. Spring Fragrance (1912) to Ozeki's A Tale for the Time …
Ecocriticism and Asian American Literature
Gold Mountains, Weedflowers and Murky Globes
Häftad, 2021
1023 kr
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Ecocriticism and Asian American Literature: Gold Mountains, Weedflowers, and Murky Globes offers an ecocritical reinterpretation of Asian American literature. The book considers more than a century of Asian American writing, from Eaton’s Mrs. Spring Fragrance (1912) to Ozeki's A Tale for the Time …
Early Anthropocene Literature in Britain, 1750–1884
Av Seth T. Reno
Inbunden, 2020
1322 kr
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This book questions when exactly the Anthropocene began, uncovering an “early Anthropocene” in the literature, art, and science of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. In chapters organized around the classical elements of Earth, Fire, Water, and Air, Seth Reno shows how literary writers of …
Early Anthropocene Literature in Britain, 1750–1884
Av Seth T. Reno
Häftad, 2021
1322 kr
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This book questions when exactly the Anthropocene began, uncovering an “early Anthropocene” in the literature, art, and science of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. In chapters organized around the classical elements of Earth, Fire, Water, and Air, Seth Reno shows how literary writers of …
Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System
Av Chris Campbell, Michael Niblett m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1680 kr
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Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System marks a significant intervention into the field of literary food studies. Drawing on new work in world literature, cultural studies, and environmental studies, the essays gathered here explore how literary and cultural …
Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System
Av Chris Campbell, Michael Niblett m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
1680 kr
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Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System marks a significant intervention into the field of literary food studies. Drawing on new work in world literature, cultural studies, and environmental studies, the essays gathered here explore how literary and cultural …
Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature
Inbunden, 2023
1322 kr
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This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, and Foucauldian theory, Matthias Klestil examines forms of environmental knowledge in African American writing ranging …
George C. Williams and Evolutionary Literacy
Inbunden, 2022
1202 kr
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In this book, a case study of a humanistic reading of an essential evolutionary theorist, George C. Williams (May 12, 1926–September 8, 2010), the author contends that certain classic works of evolutionary theory and history are the most important nature writing of recent times. What it means to be …
George C. Williams and Evolutionary Literacy
Häftad, 2023
1202 kr
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In this book, a case study of a humanistic reading of an essential evolutionary theorist, George C. Williams (May 12, 1926–September 8, 2010), the author contends that certain classic works of evolutionary theory and history are the most important nature writing of recent times. What it means to be …
Energy Culture
Work, Power, and Waste in Russia and the Soviet Union
Av Jillian Porter, Maya Vinokour
Inbunden, 2023
1680 kr
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This volume investigates energy as a shaping force in Russian and Soviet literature, visual culture, and social practice. Chronologically arranged chapters explain how nineteenth-century ideas about energy informed realist novels and paintings; how the poetics of energy defined pre-Revolutionary …
