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Thomas Pynchon’s Animal Tales
Fables for Ecocriticism
Inbunden, 2022
1312 kr
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Throughout his works, Thomas Pynchon uses various animal characters to narrate fables that are vital to postmodernism and ecocriticism. Thomas Pynchon’s Animal Tales: Fables for Ecocriticism examines case studies of animal representation in Pynchon’s texts, such as alligators in the sewer in V.; …
Critical Ecofeminism
Av Greta Gaard
Häftad, 2019
661 kr
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Australian feminist philosopher Val Plumwood coined the term “critical ecofeminism” to “situate humans in ecological terms and non-humans in ethical terms,” for “the two tasks are interconnected, and cannot be addressed properly in isolation from each other.” Variously using the terms “critical …
Canine Death in Canonical American Fiction
E-bok, 2026
1434 kr
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Canine Death in Canonical American Fiction investigates the presence of dogs in literature through an analysis of classic and popular novels. The author interrogates the validity of the "e;man's best friend"e; trope by using fiction as a telling source of cultural attitudes towards animals …
Human-Animal Relationship in Pre-Modern Turkish Literature
A Study of The Book of Dede Korkut and The Masnavi, Book I, II
Inbunden, 2023
1151 kr
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In The Human-Animal Relationship in Pre-Modern Turkish Literature: A Study of The Book of Dede Korkut and The Masnavi, Book I, II, Dilek Bulut Sarikaya explores medieval Anatolia, where humans' connectivity to nonhuman animals was not yet disrupted by the capitalist economic systems and …
Green Thread
Dialogues with the Vegetal World
Av Patrícia Vieira, Monica Gagliano m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
710 kr
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The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking …
Forest in Medieval German Literature
Ecocritical Readings from a Historical Perspective
Häftad, 2019
661 kr
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By pursuing an ecocritical reading, The Forest in Medieval German Literature examines passages in medieval German texts where protagonists operated in the forest and found themselves either in conflictual situations or in refuge. By probing the way the individual authors dealt with the forest, …
Myth and Environment in Recent Southwestern Literature
Healing Narratives
Av Theda Wrede
Inbunden, 2014
1478 kr
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The romantic perception of the American Southwest as a wild and dangerous frontier where heroic settlers prove their endurance has often responded to a common human desire to escape from the pressures of civilization and experience an “authentic” relationship with nature. This idealized notion …
T.S. Eliot, Poetry, and Earth
The Name of the Lotos Rose
Inbunden, 2016
1641 kr
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T. S. Eliot enjoyed a profound relationship with Earth. Criticism of his work does not suggest that this exists in his poetic oeuvre. Writing into this gap, Etienne Terblanche demonstrates that Eliot presents Earth as a process in which humans immerse themselves. The Waste Land and Four Quartets in …
Feminist Ecocriticism
Environment, Women, and Literature
Häftad, 2014
825 kr
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Feminist Ecocriticism examines the interplay of women and nature as seen through literary theory and criticism, drawing on insights from such diverse fields as chaos theory and psychoanalysis, while examining genres ranging from nineteenth-century sentimental literature to contemporary science …
Ishimure Michiko's Writing in Ecocritical Perspective
Between Sea and Sky
Inbunden, 2015
1560 kr
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This collection of ecocritical essays is focused on the work of Japan’s foremost writer on environment and culture, Ishimure Michiko. Ishimure is known for her pioneering trilogy that exposed the Minamata Disease incident and the nature of modern industrial pollution. She is also regarded by many …
Explorations in Ecocriticism
Advocacy, Bioregionalism, and Visual Design
Inbunden, 2015
1356 kr
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A chief innovation of Explorations in Ecocriticism is to push ecological criticism beyond its focus on literary studies to engage with other arts and culture. One chapter closely examines the pictures commissioned by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to valorize its big dam projects. Previously, no …
Forest in Medieval German Literature
Ecocritical Readings from a Historical Perspective
Inbunden, 2015
1805 kr
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By pursuing an ecocritical reading, The Forest in Medieval German Literature examines passages in medieval German texts where protagonists operated in the forest and found themselves either in conflictual situations or in refuge. By probing the way the individual authors dealt with the forest, …
Urban Ecologies
City Space, Material Agency, and Environmental Politics in Contemporary Culture
Inbunden, 2014
1569 kr
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The term “urban ecology” has become a buzzword in various disciplines, including the social and natural sciences as well as urban planning and architecture. The environmental humanities have been slow to adapt to current theoretical debates, often excluding human-built environments from their …
Urban Ecologies
City Space, Material Agency, and Environmental Politics in Contemporary Culture
Häftad, 2017
717 kr
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The term “urban ecology” has become a buzzword in various disciplines, including the social and natural sciences as well as urban planning and architecture. The environmental humanities have been slow to adapt to current theoretical debates, often excluding human-built environments from their …
New International Voices in Ecocriticism
Häftad, 2016
825 kr
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With twelve original essays that characterize truly international ecocriticisms, New International Voices in Ecocriticism presents a compendium of ecocritical approaches, including ecocritical theory, ecopoetics, ecocritical analyses of literary, cultural, and musical texts (especially those not …
Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature
Av Steven Petersheim, Madison Jones IV
Inbunden, 2015
1478 kr
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The nineteenth-century roots of environmental writing in American literature are often mentioned in passing and sometimes studied piece by piece. Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature brings together numerous …
Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature
Av Steven Petersheim, Madison Jones IV
Häftad, 2017
825 kr
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The nineteenth-century roots of environmental writing in American literature are often mentioned in passing and sometimes studied piece by piece. Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature brings together numerous …
Green Thread
Dialogues with the Vegetal World
Av Patrícia Vieira, Monica Gagliano m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1897 kr
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The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World is an interdisciplinary collection of essays in the emerging field of Plant Studies. The volume is the first of its kind to bring together a dynamic body of scholarship that shares a critique of long-standing human perceptions of plants as lacking …
Disability and the Environment in American Literature
Toward an Ecosomatic Paradigm
Inbunden, 2016
1315 kr
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This book includes a collection of essays that explore the relationship between Disability Studies and literary ecocriticism, particularly as this relationship plays out in American literature and culture. The contributors to this collection operate from the premise that there is much to be gained …
Persuasive Aesthetic Ecocritical Praxis
Climate Change, Subsistence, and Questionable Futures
Inbunden, 2015
1478 kr
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Persuasive Aesthetic Ecocritical Praxis continues Patrick D. Murphy's focus on transversal ecocritical praxis by considering literature and cinema in terms of the persuasive force of aesthetic activity and whether or not artistic production and its criticism can be considered forms of activism. …
Ecological Thought in German Literature and Culture
Av Gabriele Duerbeck, Urte Stobbe m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1968 kr
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The volume offers a survey of the contribution of German literature and culture to the evolution of ecological thought. As the field of ecocritical theory and practice is rapidly expanding towards transnational and global dimensions, it seems nevertheless necessary to consider the distinct …
Ecological Thought in German Literature and Culture
Av Gabriele Duerbeck, Urte Stobbe m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
825 kr
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The volume offers a survey of the contribution of German literature and culture to the evolution of ecological thought. As the field of ecocritical theory and practice is rapidly expanding towards transnational and global dimensions, it seems nevertheless necessary to consider the distinct …
Ecocriticism of the Global South
Av Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
661 kr
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The vast majority of existing ecocritical studies, even those which espouse the “postcolonial ecocritical” perspective, operate within a first-world sensibility, speaking on behalf of subalternized human communities and degraded landscapes without actually eliciting the voices of the impacted …
Ecocritical Approaches to Literature in French
Av Douglas L. Boudreau, Marnie M. Sullivan
Inbunden, 2015
1478 kr
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Ecocriticism is a critical approach that focuses on the representation in literature of the non-human elements of the natural world, a method of inquiry that has been largely limited to literature written in English. The aim of Ecocritical Approaches to Literature in French is twofold: to introduce …
Coexistentialism and the Unbearable Intimacy of Ecological Emergency
Av Sam Mickey
Inbunden, 2016
1427 kr
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The philosophy of existentialism is undergoing an ecological renewal, as global warming, mass extinction, and other signs of the planetary scale of human actions are making it glaringly apparent that existence is always ecological coexistence. One of the most urgent problems in the current …
Coexistentialism and the Unbearable Intimacy of Ecological Emergency
Av Sam Mickey
Häftad, 2018
717 kr
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The philosophy of existentialism is undergoing an ecological renewal, as global warming, mass extinction, and other signs of the planetary scale of human actions are making it glaringly apparent that existence is always ecological coexistence. One of the most urgent problems in the current …
Romantic Ecocriticism
Origins and Legacies
Inbunden, 2016
1805 kr
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Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies is unique due to its rare assemblage of essays, which has not appeared within an edited collection before. Romantic Ecocriticism is distinct because the essays in the collection develop transnational and transhistorical approaches to the proto-ecological …
Romantic Ecocriticism
Origins and Legacies
Häftad, 2017
825 kr
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Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies is unique due to its rare assemblage of essays, which has not appeared within an edited collection before. Romantic Ecocriticism is distinct because the essays in the collection develop transnational and transhistorical approaches to the proto-ecological …
Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature
The Denatured Wild
Inbunden, 2016
1315 kr
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The essays in this volume provide a theorization of what we might call the “denatured” wild, in other words a notion of environmental “restoration” or "reinhabitation" that recognizes and reconfigures the human factor as an interdependent entity. Acknowledging the contributions of Marco Armerio, …
Romantic Sustainability
Endurance and the Natural World, 1780–1830
Häftad, 2017
825 kr
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Romantic Sustainability is a collection of sixteen essays that examine the British Romantic era in ecocritical terms. Written by scholars from five continents, this international collection addresses the works of traditional Romantic writers such as John Keats, Percy Shelley, William Wordsworth, …
