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EnvironMentality : ecocriticism and the event of postcolonial fiction /
This book addresses the role and potential of literature in the process of contesting and re-evaluating concepts of nature and animality, describing one's individual environment as the starting point for such negotiations. It employs the notion of the 'literary event' to discuss the s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Rodopi,
2013.
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| Colección: | Nature, culture and literature ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book addresses the role and potential of literature in the process of contesting and re-evaluating concepts of nature and animality, describing one's individual environment as the starting point for such negotiations. It employs the notion of the 'literary event' to discuss the specific literary quality of verbal art conceptualised as EnvironMentality . EnvironMentality is grounded on the understanding that fiction does not explain or second scientific and philosophical notions but that it poses a fundamental challenge to any form of knowledge manifesting in processes determined by the hu. |
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| Notas: | Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D)--Universität Duisburg-Essen, 2011. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (315 pages .) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9401209340 9789401209342 |
| ISSN: | 1572-4344 ; |