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Persuasive aesthetic ecocritical praxis : climate change, subsistence, and questionable futures /

Persuasive Aesthetic Ecocritical Praxis analyzes environmental literature and film from a tranversal ecocritical orientation with a focus on the aesthetic dimensions in terms of persuasive affects. It emphasizes attention to crucial themes, such as climate change, land dispossession, and differentia...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Murphy, Patrick D., 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]
Colección:Ecocritical theory and practice.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Continuing the transversal ecocritical praxis project
  • The question of aesthetic praxis: if literature and art are propaganda, what is ecocritical analysis?
  • Back to concerns about the future: Susan Fenimore Cooper and rural hours
  • Pessimism, optimism, human inertia and anthropogenic climate change
  • Directing the weather, producing the climate
  • Buying agriculture, selling starvation and the failure of business-as-usual in a dystopic future
  • Viewing the far fields through an ecofeminist subsistence perspective in an age of land grabs
  • From consumables to sustenance through an ecofeminist sufficiency reorientation
  • Listening for a way out through a deep yearning for a resounding relationship
  • The role of women and gender equality in creating ecotopia.