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Literature and sustainability : Exploratory essays /

How might literary scholarship engage with the sustainability debate? Aimed at research scholars and advanced students in literary and environmental studies, this collection brings together twelve essays by leading and up-coming scholars on the theme of literature and sustainability. In today's...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Squire, Louise (Editor ), Parham, John (Editor ), Johns-Putra, Adeline, 1973- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The millers' tales: sustainability, the arts and the watermill / Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Howard Thomas and Richard Marggraf Turley
  • Sustenance from the past: precedents to sustainability in nineteenth-century literature and culture / John Parham
  • Deep sustainability: ecopoetics, enjoyment and ecstatic hospitality / Kate Rigby
  • Recycling materials, recycling lives: cardboard publishers in Latin America / Lucy Bell
  • Sustainability after extinction: on last animals and future bison / Joshua Schuster
  • The twilight of the Anthropocene: sustaining literature / Claire Colebrook
  • Collapse, resilience, stability and sustainability in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy / Dana Phillips
  • "The shadow of the future made all the difference": sustainability in Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capital trilogy / Chris Pak
  • The unsustainable aesthetics of sustainability: the sense of an ending in Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods / Adeline Johns-Putra
  • A modest proposal for a less natural lifestyle: the paradoxes of sustainability and Michel Houellebecq's The Possibility of an Island / Hannes Bergthaller
  • Jorie Graham's Sea Change: the poetics of sustainability and the politics of what we're sustaining / Matthew Griffiths
  • Circles unrounded: sustainability, subject and necessity in Yann Martel's Life of Pi / Louise Squire.