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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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Handbooks of English and American Studies ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (725 p.)
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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