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German Culture and the Modern Environmental Imagination
Narrating and Depicting Nature
Av Sabine Wilke
Häftad, 2015
1415 kr
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Thinking about and relating to the environment – what the Germans call Umwelt, i.e., the world that surrounds us – in the way that we do today has a long tradition within modern German culture. German scientists were among the many European explorers that left Europe in the late eighteenth century …
Water in Social Imagination
from Technological Optimism to Contemporary Environmentalism
Av Jane Costlow
Inbunden, 2017
2209 kr
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Water in Social Imagination considers how human communities have known, imagined and shaped water – and how water has shaped both material culture and the imagination. Essays from diverse perspectives offer histories of water at different scales – from community water wells and sacred springs to …
From Ego to Eco
Mapping Shifts from Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism
Inbunden, 2017
1944 kr
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From Ego to Eco – Mapping Shifts from Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism investigates philosophical, political and aesthetic formations of ecocentrism. Representing a variety of disciplines and testing a broad scope of critical approaches, the contributors of this volume argue that anthropocentrism is …
Green Matters
Ecocultural Functions of Literature
Inbunden, 2019
2757 kr
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Green Matters offers a fascinating insight into the regenerative function of literature with regard to environmental concerns. Based on recent developments in ecocriticism, the book demonstrates how the aesthetic dimension of literary texts makes them a vital force in the struggle for sustainable …
Equine Medicine and Popular Romance in Late Medieval England
Inbunden, 2023
1572 kr
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Equine Medicine and Popular Romance in Late Medieval England explores a seldom-studied trove of English veterinary manuals, illuminating how the daily care of horses they describe reshapes our understanding of equine representation in the popular romance of late medieval England. A saint removes a …
Imaginative Ecologies
Inspiring Change through the Humanities
Inbunden, 2021
1701 kr
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Imaginative Ecologies: Inspiring Change through the Humanities highlights the role literature and visual arts play in fostering sustainability. It weaves together contributions by international scholars, practitioners and environmental activists whose insights are brought together to illustrate how …
Isak Dinesen’s Ecological Power
Inbunden, 2025
1284 kr
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Danish writer Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen (1885–1962) was a colonial plantation manager, big-game hunter, animal rights activist, nature conservationist, flower gardener, and much more. Most importantly, Dinesen wrote thought-provoking, mind-bending, boundary-shifting tales that can help us think …
Consolations of Nature
Human-Nature Connections in Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Literature
Inbunden, 2025
1795 kr
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Amidst the ongoing ecological crisis and other civilisational threats, this book adopts a tentatively optimistic and affirmative attitude to human-nature relations. The selection of early twentieth- and twenty-first century texts analysed by the contributors offers instances of the hopeful and …
Women Who Write Animals
Female Literary Representations of the More-Than-Human World
Av Lorraine Kerslake, Maria Diana Villanueva-Romero
Inbunden, 2026
2433 kr
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Why have so many women turned to animals in their writing—and what does that reveal about our shared world? Women Who Write Animals: Female Literary Representations of the More-Than-Human World brings to light the rich and often overlooked legacy of Anglophone women writers who, from the late …
Green Man Hopkins
Poetry and the Victorian Ecological Imagination
Av John Parham
Häftad, 2010
1742 kr
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This book, the first to consider Gerard Manley Hopkins as an ecological writer, explores the dimension that social ecology offers to an ecocriticism hitherto dominated by romantic nature writing. The case for a ‘green Hopkins’ is made through a paradigm of ‘Victorian Ecology’ that expands the scope …
E.E. Cummings: Poetry and Ecology
Häftad, 2012
1609 kr
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By employing the modernist devices of fragmentation, recombination, and accentuated blank space, E. E. Cummings engages singularly with being on earth. This ecological achievement was largely ignored by the New Critics, and the subsequent semiotic spirit which has been holding that the sign hardly …
EnvironMentality
Ecocriticism and the Event of Postcolonial Fiction
Häftad, 2013
1915 kr
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This book addresses the role and potential of literature in the process of contesting and re-evaluating concepts of nature and animality, describing one’s individual environment as the starting point for such negotiations. It employs the notion of the ‘literary event’ to discuss the specific …
Semiotics of Animal Representations
Av Kadri Tüür
Häftad, 2014
1854 kr
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The ways in which we represent animals say much about who we are, who we strive to be, and our often conflicting ideas about our relationships with nonhuman species. Whether the animal is seen as someone with whom we can relate and feel kinship or conceived of as the radical other, popular cultural …
