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The Cambridge introduction to literature and the environment /
"Environmental criticism is a relatively new discipline that brings the global problem of environmental crisis to the forefront of literary and cultural studies. This introduction defines what ecocriticism is and provides a set of conceptual tools to encourage students to look at the texts they...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Cambridge introductions to literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Introduction: the challenge
- Part I. Romantic and Anti-Romantic. 1. Old World Romanticism
- 2. New World Romanticism
- 3. Genre and the ethics of nonfiction
- 4. Language beyond the human?
- 5. The inherent violence of Western thought?
- 6. Posthumanism and the 'end of nature'
- Part II. The Boundaries of the Political. 7. Thinking like a mountain?
- 8. Environmental justice and the move 'beyond nature writing'
- 9. European eco-justice
- 10. Liberalism and Green moralism
- 11. Ecofeminism
- 12. 'Postcolonial' eco-justice
- 13. Questions of scale: the local, the national and the global
- Part III. Science and the Struggle for Intellectual Authority. 14. Science and the crisis of authority
- 15. Science studies
- 16. Evolutionary theories of literature
- 17. Interdisciplinarity and science: two essays on human evolution
- Part IV. The Animal Mirror. 18. Ethics and the nonhuman animal
- 19. Anthropomorphism
- 20. The future of ecocriticism.