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Contesting environmental imaginaries : nature and counternature in a time of global change /
"Contesting Environmental Imaginaries foregrounds a question central to humanistic environmental studies: How is nature to be perceived and understood in a time of global environmental crisis? A challenge was issued to imagine counter natures, past or present, casting nature as a normative conc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Studies in environmental humanities ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Naturalizing culture and countering nature in discourses of the environment / Steven Hartman
- Part 1. Re-contextualizing nature
- Day and night : topography and renewal in Thoreau's Walden and Douglass's Narrative / Klaus Benesch
- James Schuyler's flower poems and the urban pastoral aesthetic / Tatiani G. Rapatzikou
- Palimpsest of subjugation : inscriptions of domination on the land and the human body in Jane Smiley's A thousand acres / Oyunn Hestetun
- Reframing American naturism? : space, history and the rise of environmental discourse / Mark Luccarelli
- Part 2. Challenging nature and envisioning counternatures
- Uses and abuses of environmental memory / Lawrence Buell
- Environment, technology, and modernity in contemporary Japanese animation / Ursula K. Heise
- A harmony of murder : transatlantic visions of wilderness in Werner Herzog's Grizzly man / Torben Huus Larsen
- Literary appreciation : a biocultural view / Marcus Nordlund
- Part 3. Applying counternatures
- Dark Darwin : (d)evolutionary theory and the logic of vampirism in Bram Stoker's Dracula / Henrik Otterberg
- Why should we respect nature? : an appropriation of Nietzsche / Torsten Pettersson
- Histories and ideologies of nature in Argyll / Karen Lykke Syse
- "Picturing Eden" : contesting Fredrika Bremer's tropics / Adriana Mendez Rodenas
- Life under water : narratives of deep sea counternatures / Hakan Sandgren
- Superfund sites as anti-landscapes / David E. Nye.