Cargando…

EnvironMentality : ecocriticism and the event of postcolonial fiction /

This book addresses the role and potential of literature in the process of contesting and re-evaluating concepts of nature and animality, describing one's individual environment as the starting point for such negotiations. It employs the notion of the 'literary event' to discuss the s...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bartosch, Roman (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2013.
Colección:Nature, culture and literature ; 9.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a2200000 a 4500
001 EBOOKCENTRAL_ocn902600237
003 OCoLC
005 20240329122006.0
006 m o d
007 cr |n|||||||||
008 131117s2013 ne ob 001 0 eng d
040 |a YDXCP  |b eng  |e pn  |c YDXCP  |d OCLCO  |d OCLCF  |d EBLCP  |d IDEBK  |d HEBIS  |d E7B  |d CN3GA  |d CHVBK  |d OCLCQ  |d OCL  |d OCLCQ  |d LOA  |d OCLCQ  |d AZK  |d K6U  |d YDX  |d LVT  |d COCUF  |d PIFFA  |d FVL  |d ZCU  |d OCLCQ  |d MERUC  |d COO  |d OCLCO  |d U3W  |d OCLCA  |d STF  |d OCLCQ  |d ICG  |d OCLCQ  |d OCLCA  |d DKC  |d OCLCQ  |d UK7LJ  |d TUHNV  |d OCLCO  |d VT2  |d NRC  |d OCLCO  |d OCLCQ  |d OCLCO  |d OCLCL 
015 |a 25638658  |2 bccb 
016 7 |a 016455080  |2 Uk 
019 |a 858764912  |a 960203003  |a 961682673  |a 968200874  |a 972015031  |a 974977280  |a 975032700  |a 991937450  |a 1004391182  |a 1005084430  |a 1018001761  |a 1037679035  |a 1042323762  |a 1156004682  |a 1228527479  |a 1264756265 
020 |a 9401209340  |q (electronic bk.) 
020 |a 9789401209342  |q (electronic bk.) 
020 |z 9789042036673  |q (paperback) 
020 |z 9042036672  |q (paperback) 
024 7 |a 10.1163/9789401209342.  |2 doi 
029 1 |a CHNEW  |b 000714866 
029 1 |a CHVBK  |b 336860153 
029 1 |a DEBBG  |b BV041632737 
029 1 |a DEBBG  |b BV044063454 
035 |a (OCoLC)902600237  |z (OCoLC)858764912  |z (OCoLC)960203003  |z (OCoLC)961682673  |z (OCoLC)968200874  |z (OCoLC)972015031  |z (OCoLC)974977280  |z (OCoLC)975032700  |z (OCoLC)991937450  |z (OCoLC)1004391182  |z (OCoLC)1005084430  |z (OCoLC)1018001761  |z (OCoLC)1037679035  |z (OCoLC)1042323762  |z (OCoLC)1156004682  |z (OCoLC)1228527479  |z (OCoLC)1264756265 
050 4 |a PR9084  |b .B37 2013 
072 7 |a PN  |2 lcco 
072 7 |a DSBH5.  |2 bicssc 
072 7 |a LIT004120.  |2 bisacsh 
082 0 4 |a 809/.9336  |2 23 
049 |a UAMI 
100 1 |a Bartosch, Roman,  |e author. 
245 1 0 |a EnvironMentality :  |b ecocriticism and the event of postcolonial fiction /  |c Roman Bartosch. 
264 1 |a Amsterdam :  |b Rodopi,  |c 2013. 
300 |a 1 online resource (315 pages .) 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
347 |a data file 
490 1 |a Nature, culture and literature,  |x 1572-4344 ;  |v 09 
500 |a Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D)--Universität Duisburg-Essen, 2011. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
588 0 |a Print version record. 
505 0 |a Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The State of Environmental Literary Criticism; 2.1 Ecocriticism between the Disciplines; 2.1.1. Environmental Philosophy; 2.1.2. Ecological Science; 2.1.3. Literary Studies and the Real; 2.2 Is There Some World in This Text? Ecocriticism and Ecocritique; 2.3 Environmental Texts and Literary Ecology; 3. Postcolonial Literature and the 'Event of Fiction'; 4. A Good Dose of Formalism? Reading The Hungry Tide; 4.1 Focalisation and Narrative Deep Structure; 4.2 Gaps and Tensions; 4.3 Towards a Cautious Hermeneutics. 
505 8 |a 5. Facets of EnvironMentality6. The Uses of F(r)iction: The Heart of Redness, The Whale Caller and their Critique of Sustainable Development and Becoming-Animal; 7. Negotiating the Human-Animal Boundary: Intertextualityand Metafiction in Life of Pi and Beatrice and Virgil; 8. ""Zero Time"" and the Apocalypse: Postnatural Survival in Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood; 9. Posthumanism and the Wounded Being: 'Transformative Mimesis' in The Lives of Animals and Elizabeth Costello; 10. Towards and Beyond a Conclusion; 10.1 Can Books Save the World? 
505 8 |a 10.2 From Ego to Eco -- and Back Again: The Challenge of Reading the WorldBibliography; Index. 
520 |a This book addresses the role and potential of literature in the process of contesting and re-evaluating concepts of nature and animality, describing one's individual environment as the starting point for such negotiations. It employs the notion of the 'literary event' to discuss the specific literary quality of verbal art conceptualised as EnvironMentality . EnvironMentality is grounded on the understanding that fiction does not explain or second scientific and philosophical notions but that it poses a fundamental challenge to any form of knowledge manifesting in processes determined by the hu. 
546 |a English. 
540 |a Current copyright fee: GBP12.00  |c 0.  |5 Uk 
590 |a ProQuest Ebook Central  |b Ebook Central Academic Complete 
650 0 |a Environmentalism in literature. 
650 0 |a Postcolonialism in literature. 
650 0 |a Commonwealth fiction (English)  |y 20th century  |x History and criticism. 
650 6 |a Environnementalisme dans la littérature. 
650 6 |a Postcolonialisme dans la littérature. 
650 6 |a Roman du Commonwealth (anglais)  |y 20e siècle  |x Histoire et critique. 
650 7 |a Commonwealth fiction (English)  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Environmentalism in literature  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Postcolonialism in literature  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Postkoloniale Literatur  |2 gnd 
650 7 |a Ecocriticism  |2 gnd 
650 7 |a Umwelt  |2 gnd 
648 7 |a 1900-1999  |2 fast 
655 7 |a Criticism, interpretation, etc.  |2 fast 
758 |i has work:  |a Environmentality (Text)  |1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCGH7krkmy4p9VmtymCyKh3  |4 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork 
776 0 8 |i Print version:  |a Bartosch, Roman.  |t EnvironMentality.  |z 9789042036673  |z 9042036672 
830 0 |a Nature, culture and literature ;  |v 9. 
856 4 0 |u https://ebookcentral.uam.elogim.com/lib/uam-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1402860  |z Texto completo 
936 |a BATCHLOAD 
938 |a EBL - Ebook Library  |b EBLB  |n EBL1402860 
938 |a ebrary  |b EBRY  |n ebr10764745 
938 |a ProQuest MyiLibrary Digital eBook Collection  |b IDEB  |n cis26201232 
938 |a YBP Library Services  |b YANK  |n 10927778 
994 |a 92  |b IZTAP