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Ecocriticism on the Edge

Ecocriticism on the Edge
Author: Timothy Clark
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2015-09-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1474246303

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The twenty-first century has seen an increased awareness of the forms of environmental destruction that cannot immediately be seen, localised or, by some, even acknowledged. Ecocriticism on the Edge explores the possibility of a new mode of critical practice, one fully engaged with the destructive force of the planetary environmental crisis. Timothy Clark argues that, in literary and cultural criticism, the “Anthropocene”, which names the epoch in which human impacts on the planet's ecological systems reach a dangerous limit, also represents a threshold at which modes of interpretation that once seemed sufficient or progressive become, in this new counterintuitive context, inadequate or even latently destructive. The book includes analyses of literary works, including texts by Paule Marshall, Gary Snyder, Ben Okri, Henry Lawson, Lorrie Moore and Raymond Carver.


The Value of Ecocriticism

The Value of Ecocriticism
Author: Timothy Clark
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2019-02-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107095298

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This book offers a brief, incisive accessible overview of the fast-changing field of environmental literary criticism in an age of global environmental threat.


Ecology and Popular Film

Ecology and Popular Film
Author: Robin L. Murray
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2009-01-08
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0791477177

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Ecocritical takes on popular film.


The Ecocriticism Reader

The Ecocriticism Reader
Author: Cheryll Glotfelty
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 466
Release: 1996
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780820317816

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This book is the first collection of its kind, an anthology of classic and cutting-edge writings in the rapidly emerging field of literary ecology. Exploring the relationship between literature and the physical environment, literary ecology is the study of the ways that writing - from novels and folktales to U.S. government reports and corporate advertisements - both reflects and influences our interactions with the natural world.


Feminist Ecocriticism

Feminist Ecocriticism
Author: Douglas A. Vakoch
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2012
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 073917682X

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After uncovering the oppressive dichotomies of male/female and nature/culture that underlie contemporary environmental problems, Feminist Ecocriticism focuses specifically on emancipatory strategies employed by ecofeminist literary critics as antidotes, asking what our lives might be like as those strategies become increasingly successful in overcoming oppression. Thus, ecofeminism is not limited to the critique of literature, but also helps identify and articulate liberatory ideals that can be actualized in the real world, in the process transforming everyday life. Providing an alternative to rugged individualism, for example, ecofeminist literature promotes a more fulfilling sense of interrelationship with both community and the land. In the process of exploring literature from ecofeminist perspectives, the book reveals strategies of emancipation that have already begun to give rise to more hopeful ecological narratives.


Ecocriticism and Shakespeare

Ecocriticism and Shakespeare
Author: Simon C. Estok
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2011-04-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230118747

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This book offers the term 'ecophobia' as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world. Estok argues that this vocabulary is both necessary to the developing area of ecocritical studies and for our understandings of the representations of 'Nature' in Shakespeare.


Elemental Ecocriticism

Elemental Ecocriticism
Author: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2015-12-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1452945675

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For centuries it was believed that all matter was composed of four elements: earth, air, water, and fire in promiscuous combination, bound by love and pulled apart by strife. Elemental theory offered a mode of understanding materiality that did not center the cosmos around the human. Outgrown as a science, the elements are now what we build our houses against. Their renunciation has fostered only estrangement from the material world. The essays collected in Elemental Ecocriticism show how elemental materiality precipitates new engagements with the ecological. Here the classical elements reveal the vitality of supposedly inert substances (mud, water, earth, air), chemical processes (fire), and natural phenomena, as well as the promise in the abandoned and the unreal (ether, phlogiston, spontaneous generation). Decentering the human, this volume provides important correctives to the idea of the material world as mere resource. Three response essays meditate on the connections of this collaborative project to the framing of modern-day ecological concerns. A renewed intimacy with the elemental holds the potential of a more dynamic environmental ethics and the possibility of a reinvigorated materialism.


That's All Folks?

That's All Folks?
Author: Robin L. Murray
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2011-12-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0803235127

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"Examines animated films in the cultural and historical context of environmental movements"--Provided by publisher.


Recomposing Ecopoetics

Recomposing Ecopoetics
Author: Lynn Keller
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2018-01-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 081394063X

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In the first book devoted exclusively to the ecopoetics of the twenty-first century, Lynn Keller examines poetry of what she terms the "self-conscious Anthropocene," a period in which there is widespread awareness of the scale and severity of human effects on the planet. Recomposing Ecopoetics analyzes work written since the year 2000 by thirteen North American poets--including Evelyn Reilly, Juliana Spahr, Ed Roberson, and Jena Osman--all of whom push the bounds of literary convention as they seek forms and language adequate to complex environmental problems. Drawing as often on linguistic experimentalism as on traditional literary resources, these poets respond to environments transformed by people and take "nature" to be a far more inclusive and culturally imbricated category than conventional nature poetry does. This interdisciplinary study not only brings cutting-edge work in ecocriticism to bear on a diverse archive of contemporary environmental poetry; it also offers the environmental humanities new ways to understand the cultural and affective dimensions of the Anthropocene.


Coming Into Contact

Coming Into Contact
Author: Annie Merrill Ingram
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2010-01-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0820336688

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A snapshot of ecocriticism in action, Coming into Contact collects sixteen previously unpublished essays that explore some of the most promising new directions in the study of literature and the environment. They look to previously unexamined or underexamined aspects of literature's relationship to the environment, including swamps, internment camps, Asian American environments, the urbanized Northeast, and lynching sites. The authors relate environmental discourse to practice, including the teaching of green design in composition classes, the restoration of damaged landscapes, the persuasive strategies of environmental activists, the practice of urban architecture, and the impact of human technologies on nature. The essays also put ecocriticism into greater contact with the natural sciences, including elements of evolutionary biology, biological taxonomy, and geology. Engaging both ecocritical theory and practice, these authors more closely align ecocriticism with the physical environment, with the wide range of texts and cultural practices that concern it, and with the growing scholarly conversation that surrounds this concern.