Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology / / Hubert Zapf.
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 transnationa...
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Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Handbooks of English and American Studies ;
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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