Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 275 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0816623082
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0816623074
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0816685339
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9780816623082
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9780816623075
,
9780816685332
Content:
Informed by recent developments in literary criticism and social theory, In the Nature of Things addresses the presumption that nature exists independent of culture and, in particular, of language. The theoretical approaches of the contributors represent both modernist and postmodernist positions, including feminist theory, critical theory, Marxism, science fiction, theology, and botany. They demonstrate how the concept of nature is invoked and constituted in a wide range of cultural projects-from the Bible to science fiction movies, from hunting to green consumerism. Ultimately, it weeks to l
Content:
The great wild hope : nature, environmentalism, and the open secret / William Chaloupka and R. McGreggor Cawley -- Building wilderness / Wade Sikorski -- Intimate distance : the dislocation of nature in modernity / Shane Phelan -- "Manning" the frontiers : the politics of (human) nature in Blade runner / Michael J. Shapiro -- Brave new world in the discourses of reproductive and genetic technologies / Valerie Hartouni -- Going wild : the contested terrain of nature / Jan E. Dizard -- Restoring nature : natives and exotics / John Rodman -- Green consumerism : ecology and the ruse of recycling / Timothy W. Luke -- Green fields/brown skin : posting as a sign of recognition / Cheri Lucas Jennings and Bruce H. Jennings -- Voices from the whirlwind / William E. Connolly -- Ecotones and environmental ethics : Adorno and Lopez / Romand Coles -- Primate visions and alter-tales / Jane Bennett
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe In the nature of things Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1993
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
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Author information:
Bennett, Jane 1957-
