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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Rodopi,
2013.
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| Colección: | Nature, culture and literature ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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?
- 10.2 From Ego to Eco
- and Back Again: The Challenge of Reading the WorldBibliography; Index.