Environmental awareness and the design of literature / / edited by Francois Specq.

• Superior document: Studies in Environmental Humanities, Volume 3
• TeilnehmendeR: Specq, Francois,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in environmental humanities ; Volume 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (173 pages).
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; The World Outside in (Literature) /; American Ecocriticism and the Ethics of Commitment /; Urban Ambivalences and Narrative Domains in Defoe’s Novels /; Thoreau’s Environmental Humanism /; Environmental Awareness and Geography: Reading Reclus Ecocritically? /; Ecological Awareness and the Democratic Consensus: John Muir’s Post-Mortem Radicalism /; John C. Van Dyke, The Desert (1901): Under the Shadow of the Artificial Desert /; Encountering the Sahara: Embodiment, Emotion, and Material Agency in Paul Bowles’s The Sheltering Sky /; Dillard Dancing: An American Childhood /; On Duff Wilson: Community, Agribusiness and Environmental Testimony /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004324836
• ISSN: 2211-5846
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Francois Specq.

Environmental Awareness and the Design of Literature offers analyses of the diverse ways in which literature helps us escape the rigid frames of commonly assumed worldviews and modes of seeing. Literary works are endowed with a capacity not only to reflect or to mediate, but to resist our environment, and thus to affect and transform our relation to the physical world. Each essay points to the way literature shapes the human perception of environment as intellectual adventures and forays that draw upon a number of historical, aesthetic, philosophical and phenomenological stances.