Culture, creativity and environment : : new environmentalist criticism / / edited by Fiona Becket and Terry Gifford.

• Superior document: Nature, culture and literature ; 05
• TeilnehmendeR: Becket, Fiona, 1962-; Gifford, Terry.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Nature, culture and literature ; 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (259 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Culture, Creativity and Environment: New Environmentalist Criticism is a collection of new work which examines the intersection between philosophy, literature, visual art, film and the environment at a time of environmental crisis. This book is unusual in the way in which the ‘imaginative’, ‘creative’, element is privileged, notwithstanding the creativity of rigorous cultural criticism. Genuinely interdisciplinary, this book aims to be inclusive in its discussions of diverse cultural media (different literary genres, art forms and film for instance), which offer thoughtful and thought-provoking critiques of our relationships with the environment. Our ability to transcend the ethical and aesthetic categories and discourses that have contributed to our alienation from our environment is dependant upon an enlargement of our imaginative capacities. In a modest way this book might contribute to what Ted Hughes, speaking of the imagination of each new child, described as “nature’s chance to correct culture’s error”.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Fiona Becket and Terry Gifford -- Journey to the Heart of Stone / Val Plumwood -- What is (ecological) ‘nature’? John Stuart Mill and the Victorian perspective / John Parham -- Fear and Flowers in Anya Gallaccio’s Forest Floor, Keep off the Grass, Glaschu and Repens / Judith Rugg -- Like a Ship to be Tossed: Emersonian Environmentalism and Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping / Hannes Bergthaller -- In the Mirror of Middle Earth: Langland’s use of the world as a book and what we can make of it / Gillian Rudd -- Poodles and Curs: Eugenic Comedy in Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People / Greg Garrard -- The Hunter as Nature-Lover: Idyll, aggression and ecology in the German animal stories of Otto Alscher / Axel Goodbody -- Postcolonialism, Ecocriticism and the Animal in Recent Canadian Fiction / Graham Huggan -- Barry MacSweeney’s Moorland Romance / Matthew Jarvis -- Painting Landscape: Mediating Dislocation / Judith Tucker -- Modernity and the Politics of Place in Luis Trenker’s Der verlorene Sohn / Guinevere Narraway -- Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty: Ecopoetics and the Problem of Humanism / Louise Westling -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.