Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology / / Hubert Zapf.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016
• TeilnehmendeR: Zapf, Hubert,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Handbooks of English and American Studies ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (725 p.)

Ecocriticism has emerged as one of the most fascinating and rapidly growing fields of recent literary and cultural studies. From its regional origins in late-twentieth-century Anglo-American academia, it has become a worldwide phenomenon, which involves a decidedly transdisciplinary and transnational paradigm that promises to return a new sense of relevance to research and teaching in the humanities. A distinctive feature of the present handbook in comparison with other survey volumes is the combination of ecocriticism with cultural ecology, reflecting an emphasis on the cultural transformation of ecological processes and on the crucial role of literature, art, and other forms of cultural creativity for the evolution of societies towards sustainable futures. In state-of-the-art contributions by leading international scholars in the field, this handbook maps some of the most important developments in contemporary ecocritical thought. It introduces key theoretical concepts, issues, and directions of ecocriticism and cultural ecology and demonstrates their relevance for the analysis of texts and other cultural phenomena.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Editors' Preface / Middeke, Martin / Rippl, Gabriele / Zapf, Hubert -- Contents -- 0. Introduction / Zapf, Hubert -- Part I. Ecocritical Theories of Culture and Literature -- 1. The Lightest Burden: The Aesthetic Abductions of Biosemiotics / Wheeler, Wendy -- 2. Earth's Poesy: Romantic Poetics, Natural Philosophy, and Biosemiotics / Rigby, Kate -- 3. Merleau-Ponty and the Eco-Literary Imaginary / Westling, Louise -- 4. Ecology and Immanence / Berressem, Hanjo -- 5. Paradox as Bedrock: Social Systems Theory and the Ungrounding of Literary Environmentalism in Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire / Bergthaller, Hannes -- 6. Aesthetics of Nature - A Philosophical Perspective / Böhme, Gernot -- 7. Cultural Ecology of Literature - Literature as Cultural Ecology / Zapf, Hubert -- 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 / Soper, Kate -- 9. Political Ecology: Nature, Democracy, and American Literary Culture / Gersdorf, Catrin -- 10. Ecocriticism and Postcolonial Studies / Banerjee, Mita -- 11. Ecofeminisms, the Toxic Body, and Linda Hogan's Power / Grewe-Volpp, Christa -- 12. Ecocriticism, Place Studies, and Colm Tóibín's "A Long Winter": A Biocultural Perspective / Easterlin, Nancy -- 13. Animal Studies: Kafka's Animal Stories / Goodbody, Axel -- 14. From Material to Posthuman Ecocriticism: Hybridity, Stories, Natures / Oppermann, Serpil -- 15. Conciliation and Consilience: Climate Change in Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behaviour / Garrard, Greg -- Part III. Between the Local and the Global: Cultural Diversity vs. Eco-Cosmopolitanism -- 16. Narrative Scholarship as an American Contribution to Global Ecocriticism / Slovic, Scott -- 17. Ecology and Life Writing in Transnational and Transcultural Perspective / Hornung, Alfred -- 18. From Thomas Mann to Porto Marghera: Material Ecocriticism, Literary Interpretation, and Death in Venice / Iovino, Serenella -- 19. Mediterranean Ecocriticism: The Sea in the Middle / Past, Elena -- 20. Eco- and Geo- Approaches in French and Francophone Literary Studies / Bouvet, Rachel / Posthumus, Stephanie -- 21. Latin American Environmental Discourses, Indigenous Ecological Consciousness and the Problem of 'Authentic' Native Identities / Schmidt, Elmar -- 22. Women Writing Nature in the Global South: New Forest Texts from Fractured Indian Forests / Rangarajan, Swarnalatha -- 23. Ecocultures and the African Literary Tradition / Okuyade, Ogaga -- 24. Ecosophy and Ecoaesthetics: A Chinese Perspective / Xiangzhan, Cheng -- 25. World Risk Society and Ecoglobalism: Risk, Literature, and the Anthropocene / Mayer, Sylvia -- Part IV. Ecologies of Literary Communication -- 26. Cultural Ecology and the Teaching of Literature / Grimm, Sieglinde / Wanning, Berbeli -- 27. Environmental Narrative, Embodiment, and Emotion / Mossner, Alexa Weik von -- 28. Beyond the Wasteland: An Ecocritical Reading of Modernist Trauma Literature / Donn, Katharina -- 29. Literary Place and Cultural Memory / Schliephake, Christopher -- 30. The Ecology of Literary Chronotopes / Müller, Timo -- 31. Cultural Ecology and Literary Translation / Redling, Erik -- Part V. Genre and Media Ecologies -- 32. PANORAMA: Three Ecocinematic Territories / MacDonald, Scott -- 33. Ecomusicology from Poetic to Practical / Allen, Aaron S. -- 34. Within and Beyond the Art World: Environmentalist Criticism of Visual Art / Boettger, Suzaan -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names -- List of Contributors