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Handbook of ecocriticism and cultural ecology / edited by Hubert Zapf.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Handbooks of English and American studies ; v. 2.Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2016]Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resource (x, 715 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110314595
  • 3110314592
  • 9783110314595
  • 9783110394894
  • 3110394898
  • 9783110308372
  • 3110308371
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  • Available from some providers with title: Handbooks of English and American studies, handbook of ecocriticism and cultural ecology
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Handbook of ecocriticism and cultural ecology.DDC classification:
  • 801/.95 23
LOC classification:
  • PN98.E36 Z36 2016eb
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Contents:
0. Introduction ; Part I. Ecocritical Theories of Culture and Literature ; 1. The Lightest Burden: The Aesthetic Abductions of Biosemiotics ; 2. Earth's Poesy: Romantic Poetics, Natural Philosophy, and Biosemiotics ; 3. Merleau-Ponty and the Eco-Literary Imaginary.
4. Ecology and Immanence 5. Paradox as Bedrock: Social Systems Theory and the Ungrounding of Literary Environmentalism in Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire ; 6. Aesthetics of Nature -- A Philosophical Perspective ; 7. Cultural Ecology of Literature -- Literature as Cultural Ecology.
Part II. Issues and Directions of Contemporary Ecocriticism 8. Neither the 'Simple Backward Look' nor the 'Simple Progressive Thrust': Ecocriticism and the Politics of Prosperity ; 9. Political Ecology: Nature, Democracy, and American Literary Culture.
10. Ecocriticism and Postcolonial Studies 11. Ecofeminisms, the Toxic Body, and Linda Hogan's Power ; 12. Ecocriticism, Place Studies, and Colm T�oib�in's "A Long Winter": A Biocultural Perspective ; 13. Animal Studies: Kafka's Animal Stories.
14. From Material to Posthuman Ecocriticism: Hybridity, Stories, Natures 15. Conciliation and Consilience: Climate Change in Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behaviour ; Part III. Between the Local and the Global: Cultural Diversity vs. Eco-Cosmopolitanism.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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0. Introduction ; Part I. Ecocritical Theories of Culture and Literature ; 1. The Lightest Burden: The Aesthetic Abductions of Biosemiotics ; 2. Earth's Poesy: Romantic Poetics, Natural Philosophy, and Biosemiotics ; 3. Merleau-Ponty and the Eco-Literary Imaginary.

4. Ecology and Immanence 5. Paradox as Bedrock: Social Systems Theory and the Ungrounding of Literary Environmentalism in Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire ; 6. Aesthetics of Nature -- A Philosophical Perspective ; 7. Cultural Ecology of Literature -- Literature as Cultural Ecology.

Part II. Issues and Directions of Contemporary Ecocriticism 8. Neither the 'Simple Backward Look' nor the 'Simple Progressive Thrust': Ecocriticism and the Politics of Prosperity ; 9. Political Ecology: Nature, Democracy, and American Literary Culture.

10. Ecocriticism and Postcolonial Studies 11. Ecofeminisms, the Toxic Body, and Linda Hogan's Power ; 12. Ecocriticism, Place Studies, and Colm T�oib�in's "A Long Winter": A Biocultural Perspective ; 13. Animal Studies: Kafka's Animal Stories.

14. From Material to Posthuman Ecocriticism: Hybridity, Stories, Natures 15. Conciliation and Consilience: Climate Change in Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behaviour ; Part III. Between the Local and the Global: Cultural Diversity vs. Eco-Cosmopolitanism.

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.

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