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Italy and the Environmental Humanities : Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies /

Bringing together new writing by some of the field's most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy--as a territory of both matter and imagination--through the lens of the environmental humanities. The contributors offer a wide spectrum of appr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Past, Elena (Editor ), Cesaretti, Enrico, 1963- (Editor ), Iovino, Serenella, 1971- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Colección:Under the sign of nature.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Bringing together new writing by some of the field's most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy--as a territory of both matter and imagination--through the lens of the environmental humanities. The contributors offer a wide spectrum of approaches--including ecocriticism, film studies, environmental history and sociology, eco-art, and animal and landscape studies--to move past cliche and reimagine Italy as a hybrid, plural, eloquent place. Among the topics investigated are post-seismic rubble and the stratifying geosocial layers of the Anthropocene, the landscape connections in the work of writers such as Calvino and Buzzati, the contaminated fields of the ecomafia's trafficking, Slow Food's gastronomy of liberation, poetic birds and historic forests, resident parasites, and nonhuman creatures. At a time when the tension between the local and the global requires that we reconsider our multiple roots and porous place-identities, Italy and the Environmental Humanities builds a creative critical discourse and offers a series of new voices that will enrich not just nationally oriented discussions, but the entire debate on environmental culture.
Notas:Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (282 pages): illustrations.
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780813941080
Acceso:Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.