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Handbook of ecocriticism and cultural ecology /
Ecocriticism has emerged as one of the most fascinating and rapidly growing fields of recent literary and cultural studies, which involves a decidedly transdisciplinary and international paradigm of research and teaching. The volume maps some of the most important developments within contemporary Ec...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Handbooks of English and American studies ;
v. 2. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 0. Introduction ; Part I. Ecocritical Theories of Culture and Literature ; 1. The Lightest Burden: The Aesthetic Abductions of Biosemiotics ; 2. Earth's Poesy: Romantic Poetics, Natural Philosophy, and Biosemiotics ; 3. Merleau-Ponty and the Eco-Literary Imaginary.
- 4. Ecology and Immanence 5. Paradox as Bedrock: Social Systems Theory and the Ungrounding of Literary Environmentalism in Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire ; 6. Aesthetics of Nature
- A Philosophical Perspective ; 7. Cultural Ecology of Literature
- Literature as Cultural Ecology.
- Part II. Issues and Directions of Contemporary Ecocriticism 8. Neither the 'Simple Backward Look' nor the 'Simple Progressive Thrust': Ecocriticism and the Politics of Prosperity ; 9. Political Ecology: Nature, Democracy, and American Literary Culture.
- 10. Ecocriticism and Postcolonial Studies 11. Ecofeminisms, the Toxic Body, and Linda Hogan's Power ; 12. Ecocriticism, Place Studies, and Colm Tóibín's "A Long Winter": A Biocultural Perspective ; 13. Animal Studies: Kafka's Animal Stories.
- 14. From Material to Posthuman Ecocriticism: Hybridity, Stories, Natures 15. Conciliation and Consilience: Climate Change in Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behaviour ; Part III. Between the Local and the Global: Cultural Diversity vs. Eco-Cosmopolitanism.