Writing the environment : ecocriticism and literature

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Writing the environment : ecocriticism and literature

edited by Richard Kerridge and Neil Sammells

Zed Books Ltd, 1998

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

The contemporary environmental crisis asks fundamental questions about culture. Like other radical critiques, environmentalism cuts across academic boundaries and offers a major challenge to existing cultural and political divisions. This is the first book to draw together the rich variety of environmentalist positions - from ecofeminism to deep ecology - and theorize their contribution to critical theory, literature and popular culture. Paart one of the book examines theoretical controversies in environmentalist literary criticism. Contributors explore a wide variety of issues including sexual politics and nature, the link between environmental and cultural degradation, the influence of Heidegger on environmentalism, and the degree of continuity between poststructuralist theory and ecological perspectives. Part two presents a green rereading of literary history, with chapters on the manipulation of natural phenomena as a vehicle of social control, 'nature poetry' as political intervention, and fin de siecle exotic fiction as an expression of the colonialist's conception of 'jungle country' and Otherness in general. The book concludes by looking at contemporary culture: from poetry to children's books, including an analysis of television nature programmes.

目次

Contents Introduction - Richard Kerridge Part 1: Ecocritical Theory 1. Magpie - SueEllen Campbell 2. The Impossibility of Ecocriticism - Dominic Head 3. Anotherness and Inhabitation in Recent Multicultural American Literature - Patrick D Murphy 4. Poetry and Biodiversity - Jonathan Bate 5. Body Politics in American Nature Writing. 'Who may contest for what the body of nature may be?' - Gretchen Legler Part 2: Ecocritical History 6. Acts of God: Providence, the Jeremiad and Environmental Crisis - Barbara White 7. Crabbe's Disorderly Nature - John Lucas 8. Wilde Nature - Neil Sammells 9. Feathered Women: W.H.Hudson's 'Green Mansions' - N.H.Reeve 10. 'Or Shall I Bring You the Sound of Poisons?':'Silent Spring' and Sylvia Plath - Tracy Brain Part 3: Contemporary Writing 11. Heidegger, Heaney and the Problem of Dwelling - Greg Gerrard 12. Small Rooms and the Ecosystem: Environmentalism and DeLillo's 'White Noise' - Richard Kerridge 13. Ecopolitics and the Literature of the Borderlands: The Frontiers of Environmental Justice in Latina and Native American Writing - M. Jimmie Killingsworth and Jacqueline S. Palmer 14. Children's Literature and the Environment - Karin Lesnik-Oberstein 15. Creating the World We Must Save: The Paradox of Nature Documentaries - Karla Armbruster

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