The Cambridge introduction to literature and the environment
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The Cambridge introduction to literature and the environment
(Cambridge introductions to literature)
Cambridge University Press, 2011
- : hardback
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-243) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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The degrading environment of the planet is something that touches everyone. This 2011 book offers an introductory overview of literary and cultural criticism that concerns environmental crisis in some form. Both as a way of reading texts and as a theoretical approach to culture more generally, 'ecocriticism' is a varied and fast-changing set of practices which challenges inherited thinking and practice in the reading of literature and culture. This introduction defines what ecocriticism is, its methods, arguments and concepts, and will enable students to look at texts in a wholly new way. Boxed sections explain key critical terms and contemporary debates in the field with 'hands-on' examples and comparisons. Timothy Clark's thoughtful approach makes this an ideal first encounter with environmental readings of literature.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: the challenge
- Part I. Romantic and Anti-Romantic: 1. Old World Romanticism
- 2. New World Romanticism
- 3. Genre and the ethics of nonfiction
- 4. Language beyond the human?
- 5. The inherent violence of Western thought?
- 6. Posthumanism and the 'end of nature'
- Part II. The Boundaries of the Political: 7. Thinking like a mountain?
- 8. Environmental justice and the move 'beyond nature writing'
- 9. European eco-justice
- 10. Liberalism and Green moralism
- 11. Ecofeminism
- 12. 'Postcolonial' eco-justice
- 13. Questions of scale: the local, the national and the global
- Part III. Science and the Struggle for Intellectual Authority: 14. Science and the crisis of authority
- 15. Science studies
- 16. Evolutionary theories of literature
- 17. Interdisciplinarity and science: two essays on human evolution
- Part IV. The Animal Mirror: 18. Ethics and the nonhuman animal
- 19. Anthropomorphism
- 20. The future of ecocriticism
- Further reading
- Index.
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