Ecosickness in contemporary U.S. fiction : environment and affect /

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This title traces the development of 'Ecosickness fiction' through an assessment of contemporary U.S. novels and memoirs. It describes how the 1970s brought about a new understanding of the biological and intellectual impacts that environmental crisis can have on human beings. It shows tha...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Houser, Heather (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, 2014.
Colección:Literature Now.
Temas:
American literature > History and criticism.
Diseases in literature.
Ecocriticism.
Environmentalism in literature.
Maladies dans la littérature.
Écocritique.
Environnementalisme dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
American literature
Diseases in literature
Ecocriticism
Environmentalism in literature
Roman
Umweltverschmutzung > Motiv
USA
Electronic book.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 Ecosickness
  • Sickness in a Technoscientific Age 8
  • Life, Ethics, and Action 12
  • Ecosickness in the Field 19
  • Outline of the Book 27
  • 2 AIDS Memoirs Out of the City: Discordant Natures 31
  • Prologue 31
  • Contested Natures 39
  • North Enough's "Difficult Beauties" 46
  • The "Con" in Close to the Knives 55
  • Discordant Feelings, Suspicious Stances 65
  • Discord in Activism 72
  • 3 Richard Powers's Strange Wonder 77
  • "Weirdly Alive" with Wonder 81
  • "The Ordinary by Another Name" 93
  • "Struggling with Complex Interactions" 100
  • "The Ethic of Tending" 109
  • 4 Infinite Jest's Environmental Case for Disgust 117
  • Detached Dispositions 124
  • "Experial" Ambitions 130
  • Body Building 139
  • Affective Itineraries 145
  • How to Do Things with Disgust 152
  • 5 The Anxiety of Intervention in Leslie Marmon Silko and Marge Piercy 167
  • Disrupting the "Pattern of Disease" 170
  • "A Single Configuration" of Land and Body 175
  • Iniquitous Interventions 185
  • Anxious Apocalypse 195
  • Squirming and Trembling 208.

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