UID:
edocfu_9958354026802883
Umfang:
1 online resource (725p.)
ISBN:
9783110314595
Serie:
Handbooks of English and American Studies ; 2
Inhalt:
Ecocriticism has emerged as one of the most fascinating and rapidly growing fields of recent literary and cultural studies, which involves a decidedly transdisciplinary and international paradigm of research and teaching. The volume maps some of the most important developments within contemporary Ecocriticism from a variety of different angles, approaches, areas, and perspectives. It introduces relevant theoretical concepts and issues, and demonstrates their relevance for the analysis of texts and other cultural phenomena.
Anmerkung:
Frontmatter --
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Editors’ Preface --
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Contents --
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0. Introduction --
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Part I. Ecocritical Theories of Culture and Literature --
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1. The Lightest Burden: The Aesthetic Abductions of Biosemiotics --
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2. Earth’s Poesy: Romantic Poetics, Natural Philosophy, and Biosemiotics --
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3. Merleau-Ponty and the Eco-Literary Imaginary --
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4. Ecology and Immanence --
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5. Paradox as Bedrock: Social Systems Theory and the Ungrounding of Literary Environmentalism in Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire --
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6. Aesthetics of Nature – A Philosophical Perspective --
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7. Cultural Ecology of Literature – Literature as Cultural Ecology --
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Part II. Issues and Directions of Contemporary Ecocriticism --
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8. Neither the ‘Simple Backward Look’ nor the ‘Simple Progressive Thrust’: Ecocriticism and the Politics of Prosperity --
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9. Political Ecology: Nature, Democracy, and American Literary Culture --
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10. Ecocriticism and Postcolonial Studies --
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11. Ecofeminisms, the Toxic Body, and Linda Hogan’s Power --
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12. Ecocriticism, Place Studies, and Colm Tóibín’s “A Long Winter”: A Biocultural Perspective --
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13. Animal Studies: Kafka’s Animal Stories --
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14. From Material to Posthuman Ecocriticism: Hybridity, Stories, Natures --
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15. Conciliation and Consilience: Climate Change in Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behaviour --
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Part III. Between the Local and the Global: Cultural Diversity vs. Eco-Cosmopolitanism --
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16. Narrative Scholarship as an American Contribution to Global Ecocriticism --
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17. Ecology and Life Writing in Transnational and Transcultural Perspective --
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18. From Thomas Mann to Porto Marghera: Material Ecocriticism, Literary Interpretation, and Death in Venice --
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19. Mediterranean Ecocriticism: The Sea in the Middle --
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20. Eco- and Geo- Approaches in French and Francophone Literary Studies --
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21. Latin American Environmental Discourses, Indigenous Ecological Consciousness and the Problem of ‘Authentic’ Native Identities --
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22. Women Writing Nature in the Global South: New Forest Texts from Fractured Indian Forests --
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23. Ecocultures and the African Literary Tradition --
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24. Ecosophy and Ecoaesthetics: A Chinese Perspective --
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25. World Risk Society and Ecoglobalism: Risk, Literature, and the Anthropocene --
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Part IV. Ecologies of Literary Communication --
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26. Cultural Ecology and the Teaching of Literature --
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27. Environmental Narrative, Embodiment, and Emotion --
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28. Beyond the Wasteland: An Ecocritical Reading of Modernist Trauma Literature --
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29. Literary Place and Cultural Memory --
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30. The Ecology of Literary Chronotopes --
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31. Cultural Ecology and Literary Translation --
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Part V. Genre and Media Ecologies --
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32. PANORAMA: Three Ecocinematic Territories --
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33. Ecomusicology from Poetic to Practical --
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34. Within and Beyond the Art World: Environmentalist Criticism of Visual Art --
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Index of Subjects --
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Index of Names --
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List of Contributors
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In English.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783110308372
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1515/9783110314595
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110314595
