Ecocriticism and the idea of culture : biology and the bildungsroman /

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Arguing that the Bildungsroman is humanist culture's own origin story, Feder draws on the work of biologists in her examination of works by Voltaire, Mary Shelley, Virginia Woolf and Jamaica Kincaid. She dramatizes Western culture's own awareness of the instability of the binary of nature...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Feder, Helena (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate, 2014.
Temas:
Bildungsromans > History and criticism.
Ecology in literature.
Nature in literature.
Nature dans la littérature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Bildungsromans
Ecology in literature
Nature in literature
Bildungsroman
Ecocriticism
Kulturelle Evolution
Natur > Motiv
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction, biology and the idea of culture
  • Candide and the dialectic of enlightenment
  • Ecocriticism and the production of monstrosity in Frankenstein
  • Placing modernity in Orlando
  • Consuming culture in a small place and among flowers
  • Dehumanization, animality, and the bildungsroman.

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