Format:
208 S.
ISBN:
0786469749
,
9780786469741
Content:
"This work examines humankind's relationship with the environment in the context of Judeo-Christian theological views. It demonstrates how characters from novels such as John Updike's Rabbit Run, DeLillo's White Noise, Toni Morrison's Paradise, and Cormac McCarthy's The Road take neo-pastoral journeys to rediscover an innovative relationship with nature and religion. "--Provided by publisher
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-206) and index. - Freud, Bakhtin, and Rabbit: an ecocritical look at totem, animism, and the rogue in John Updike's Rabbit, run -- And the word was made metaphor: Oedipa's religious instant in Thomas Pynchon's The crying of lot 49 -- Nature, god, and politics: deep ecology and Spinozan theory in Bernard Malamud's The fixer -- Apocalypse visited: toxic consciousness in Don Delillo's White noise -- Re-weaving master metaphors in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead -- Interlocking pillars of oppression: ecofeminist theology in Toni Morrison's Paradise -- Theories of ecotheology in Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal summer -- Sophia's table and nuclear narrative in Cormac McCarthy's The road
,
Freud, Bakhtin, and Rabbit: an ecocritical look at totem, animism, and the rogue in John Updike's Rabbit, run -- And the word was made metaphor: Oedipa's religious instant in Thomas Pynchon's The crying of lot 49 -- Nature, god, and politics: deep ecology and Spinozan theory in Bernard Malamud's The fixer -- Apocalypse visited: toxic consciousness in Don Delillo's White noise -- Re-weaving master metaphors in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead -- Interlocking pillars of oppression: ecofeminist theology in Toni Morrison's Paradise -- Theories of ecotheology in Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal summer -- Sophia's table and nuclear narrative in Cormac McCarthy's The road.
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
,
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
USA
;
Englisch
;
Roman
;
Religion
;
Natur
;
Ökologie
;
Ecocriticism
;
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