• 1. Anthropocene F(r)ictions: Transcultural Ecology and the Scaling of Perspectives.-
• 2. Towards Transcultural Competence: Scaling
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Literature, Pedagogy, and Climate Change: Text Models for a Transcultural Ecology asks two questions: How do we read (in) the Anthropocene? And what can reading teach us? To answer these questions, the book develops a concept of transcultural ecology that understands fiction and interpretation as text models that help address the various and incommensurable scales inherent to climate change. Focussing on text composition, reception, storyworlds, and narrative framing in world literature and elsewhere, each chapter elaborates on central educational objectives through the close reading of texts by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Teju Cole and J.M. Coetzee as well as films, picture books and new digital media and their aesthetic affordances. At the end of each chapter, these objectives are summarised in sections on the 'general implications for studying and teaching' (GIST) and together offer a new concept of transcultural competence in conversation with current debates in literature pedagogy and educational philosophy.
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• 1 Ecocriticism extends its boundaries - Peter Barry and William Welstead
• 2 'I am not afraid to die': contemporary environmental crisis fiction and the post-theory era - Louise Squire
• 3 Halfway-to-whole things: ecologies of writing and collaboration - Philip Gross
• 4 'Drawing closer': an ecocritical consideration of collaborative, cross-disciplinary practices of walking, writing, drawing and exhibiting - Harriet Tarlo and Judith Tucker
• 5 ARTlines: three walking artists in Iceland - Patti Lean
• 6 Nature matters: notes on Ackroyd and Harvey, ecocriticism and praxis - Eve Ropek
• 7 The word among stones - Peter Barry
• 8 Two familiar paths well-travelled - John Darwell
• 9 Aesthetics as ecology, or the question of the form of eco-art - Clive Cazeaux
• 10 Signs and sentiment in British wildlife art - William Welstead
• 11 Symphonic pastorals redux - Aaron S. Allen
• 12 Treaty obligations: science and art in Antarctica - Mike Pearson
• 13 On-site natural heritage interpretation: an ecocritical reading - William Welstead
• 14 A seamless image: the role of photomontage in the meaning-making of wind farm development - Jean Welstead Index
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This volume of essays explores the scope for a further extension of ecocriticism across the environmental humanities. Contributors, who include both established academics and early career researchers in the humanities, were given free rein to interpret the brief. The collection is unusual in that it considers collaboration between individuals both in the same discipline and across creative disciplines. Subjects include familiar environments close to home and those such as Iceland and Antarctica, where narratives of climate, geology and ecology provide a stark backdrop to creative output. A further innovation is the inclusion of essays on public art, natural heritage interpretation and the visualisation and aesthetic impact of wind farms. The book will be of interest to writers, artists, students and researchers in the environmental humanities and those with a general interest in the cultural response to the environment. -- .
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• Echoes of Ecocriticism: an introduction / Cecilia Novero
• Geological uncertainty and poetic creativity: the material agency of Findlinge for Droste-Hulshoff and Goethe / Jillian DeMair
• Material ecocriticism and Peter Handke's Versuch uber den Pilznarren / Kiley M. Kost
• Animal encounters and ecological anxiety in W.G. Sebald / Emily Jones
• Reflections on loss : family memory and the natural environment in 21st Century German novels / Sandra Kohler
• Gewaltbereitschaft und sprachverzicht : die filmische verhandlung der nahrungsmittelproduktion in Nokolaus Geyrhalters Unser taglich Brot / Sabine Nollgen
• It's not easy being green : integrating refugees in German environmentalist culture / Joela Jacobs
• Negative dialects of nature : from nature's death to new materialisms / Andre Krebber
• Biographical notes.

• Table of Contents Introduction
• Chapter 1: Edging toward Ecology in Early American Natural History
• Chapter 2: Literary Activism and the Bioregional Agenda
• Chapter 3: West of Winthrop: Language and Landscape in Washington Territory
• Chapter 4: An Iconography of Sabotage
• Chapter 5: Rage Against the Machine: Edward Abbey and Neo-Luddite Thought
• Chapter 6: Overtures to Sublimity: Assessing the Bureau of Reclamation Art Collection
• Chapter 7: American Nature Writing and the Wise-Use Movement
• Chapter 8: Greening the Dramatic Canon
• Chapter 9: Gifts and Misgivings in Place
• Chapter 10: Restoring Bioregions through Applied Composition Notes Credits Works Cited About the Author.
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A chief innovation of Explorations in Ecocriticism is to push ecological criticism beyond its focus on literary studies to engage with other arts and culture. One chapter closely examines the pictures commissioned by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to valorize its big dam projects. Previously, no one has written about the large art collection that toured the nation under the auspices of the Smithsonian in the early 1970s, when the Bureau of Reclamation was under fire and new environmental regulations were becoming law. Another chapter, "An Iconography of Sabotage, " previously published in France as part of a Paris symposium, looks at the pictorial dimension of saboteurs throughout American history, with a special emphasis on the IWW and Earth First! The book draws extensively on the social sciences. Ecology and environment are treated too often as technical topics that go over the heads of lay readers. Many Americans care about air and water quality, the extinction of species, and the unfortunate politicization of science. But they also find the discourse daunting, the details exceedingly complex. By leavening such heavy subjects with current events, Explorations in Ecocriticism makes environmental issues accessible to lay readers and offers routes to sustainability in the United States today.
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• Table of Contents Introduction Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, and Vidya Sarveswaran
• Chapter 1: Plundering Borderlands North and South Karen Thornber
• Chapter 2: Tibet, a Topos in Ecopolitics of the Global South Gang Yue
• Chapter 3: Red China, Green Amnesia: Locating Environmental Justice in Contemporary Chinese Literature Cheng Li and Yanjun Liu
• Chapter 4: Minamata and the Symbolic Discourse of the South Tsutomu Takahashi
• Chapter 5: Indian Environmentalism and Its Fragments Jyotirmaya Tripathy
• Chapter 6: From Bhopal to Biometrics: Biological Citizenship in the Age of Globalization Pamod Nayar
• Chapter 7: Beyond the Eco-flaneur's Footsteps: Perambulatory Narration in Zakes Mda's Ways of Dying Laura A. White
• Chapter 8: Reconsidering the Eco-Imperatives of Ukrainian Consciousness: An Introduction to Ukrainian Environmental Literature Inna Sukhenko
• Chapter 9: Kissed by Lightning and Fourth Cinema's Natureculture Continuum Salma Monani
• Chapter 10: Under all the laws, natural, human, and divine: Reinterpreting La Leyenda Negra's Colonial Purpose Dora Ramirez-Dhoore
• Chapter 11: Mapmaking, Rubbertapping: Cartography and Social Ecology in Euclides da Cunha's The Amazon: Land Without History Aarti Madan
• Chapter 12: Down Under: New World Literatures and Ecocriticism George B. Handley Index Contributors.
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Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development extends the energetic and socially important tradition of postcolonial ecocriticism to regions of the world not normally considered in the postcolonial context, such as southern Japan and eastern Europe. The text expands Karen Thornber's notion of "ecoambiguity" from her own work on East Asian literature and culture to many other countries.
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• Table of Contents Foreword by Scott Slovic Acknowledgments Introduction: New International Voices in Ecocriticism Serpil Oppermann Part I. New Ecocritical Trends
• Chapter 1. Selves at the Fringes: Expanding Material Ecocriticism Kyle Bladow
• Chapter 2. "Global Subcultural Bohemianism": Postlocal Ecocriticism and Tim Winton's Breath William V. Lombardi
• Chapter 3. "What is it about you . . . that so irritates me?": Northern Exposure's Sustainable Feeling Sylvan Goldberg
• Chapter 4. Bang Your Head and Save the Planet: Gothic Ecocriticism Basak Agin Doenmez Part II. Nature and Human Experience
• Chapter 5. Un-Natural Ecopoetics: Natural/Cultural Intersections in Poetic Language and Form Sarah Nolan
• Chapter 6. "There's No Place like `Home'": Susanna Moodie, Shelter Writing, and Dwelling on the Earth Elise Mitchell
• Chapter 7. Against Ecological Kitsch: Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage Project Guangchen Chen
• Chapter 8. Neo-Aranyakas: An Enquiry into Mahasweta Devi's Forest Fictions Anu T. Asokan
• Chapter 9. Ecoerotic Imaginations in the Early Modernity and Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure Abdulhamit Arvas Part III. Human-Nonhuman Relations
• Chapter 10. What Are We? The Human Animal in Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape Christina Caupert
• Chapter 11. Familiar Animals: The question of human-animal relationships in Lauren Beukes's Zoo City Elzette Steenkamp
• Chapter 12. Dismantling "Conceptual Straitjackets" in Peter Dickinson's Eva Diana Villanueva Romero Afterword by Greta Gaard Contributors Index.
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With twelve original essays that characterize truly international ecocriticisms, New International Voices in Ecocriticism presents a compendium of ecocritical approaches, including ecocritical theory, ecopoetics, ecocritical analyses of literary, cultural, and musical texts (especially those not commonly studied in mainstream ecocriticism), and new critical vistas on human-nonhuman relations, postcolonial subjects, material selves, gender, and queer ecologies. It develops new perspectives on literature, culture, and the environment. The essays, written by contributors from the United States, Canada, Germany, Turkey, Spain, China, India, and South Africa, cover novels, drama, autobiography, music, and poetry, mixing traditional and popular forms. Popular culture and the production and circulation of cultural imaginaries feature prominently in this volume-how people view their world and the manner in which they share their perspectives, including the way these perspectives challenge each other globally and locally. In this sense the book also probes borders, border transgression, and border permeability. By offering diverse ecocritical approaches, the essays affirm the significance and necessity of international perspectives in environmental humanities, and thus offer unique responses to environmental problems and that, in some sense, affect many beginning and established scholars.
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• Preface Annie Merrill Ingram Introduction: Ecocritical Spring and Evolutionary Discourse Andrew Belyea and Nanette Norris
• Chapter 1: Imaginary Representations and Cultural Performances Of Ecocriticism Eduardo Barros-Grela
• Chapter 2: Ecological Narrative or Imperial Exploitation: What's the "Monster" in Animal Planet's River Monsters? Christopher Justice
• Chapter 3: The Representation of Nature: An Ecocritical Reading of Juan Leon Mera's Cumanda Frederico A. Chalupa
• Chapter 4: Nature Versus War in Letters from the Front, 1914-1918 Sylvie Housiel
• Chapter 5: A Passage to India: An Ecocritical Reading Yomna Al-Abdulkareem
• Chapter 6: Nature, Women, and the Ecotext: Self-Discovery in Emily Nasrallah's Short Stories "The Cocoon" and "The Butterfly" Iman A. Hanafy
• Chapter 7: Jerusalem in the poetry of Tamim El-Barghouti and Yehuda Amichai Hessa Al-Kahlan
• Chapter 8: Omumu Concept of Begetting: A Pro-Feminist Lesson from Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart Chinyere Okafor
• Chapter 9: The Legacy of the American War in Vietnam: Tim O'Brien's "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong" Nanette Norris
• Chapter 10: National Narrative as Wilderness: An Ecocritical Interpretation of Civilizacion y barbarie in Modern Argentine Literature Anne E. Hiller
• Chapter 11: Unnatural Appetites and the Case of the Cannibal in Korean Cinema Colette Balmain
• Chapter 12: Is `Eco' Enough?: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, Wayland Drew's The Erthring Cycle, and Evolutionary Fiction Andrew Belyea.
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Scholars have begun critically assessing the relationship of modern environmental science, including the study of ecology, to the creation and study of art and culture. In this volume, the voices come from around the globe-some tentative in the stirring of conscious entwinement, other voices, strident and forthright, foresee a grim future, for the planet, for our humanity, as our impositions and consumptions have made monsters of us all and stripped us of our essence, the heart of what it is to be human.
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• Introduction: Ecocritical extensions / Timo Müller, Michael Sauter
• Theoretical surveys. Frame analysis and the literature of climate change / Axel Goodbody
• Rethinking ecocriticism in an ecological postmodern framework: mangled matter, meaning, agency / Serpil Oppermann
• Material ecocriticism: matter, text, and posthuman ethics / Serenella Iovino
• Jamming what exactly? Some notes on the 'anthropological machine' and ethics in Derrida, Agamben, Calarco, and Latour / Thomas Claviez
• Literary surveys. Absence and presence in American literature / Hubert Zapf
• Memory, place, and ecology in the contemporary American novel / Chrisotpher Schliephake
• Literary quality and the ethics of reading: some thoughts on literary evolution and the fiction of Margaret Atwood, Ilija Trojanow, and Ian McEwan / Roman Bartosch
• Ecocritical readings. Ecocriticism and The house of mirth? Imaginative literature and cultural-ecological ethics / Christina Caupert
• Marguerite Yourcenar's negative anthropology / Walter Wagner
• Intersecting lines: an ecocritical reading of Daniele Del Giudice's Lines of light / Julia Fendt
• Blanca Bosco's "Loving eye": an ecocritical approach to Juan Cobos Wilkins' El corazón de la tierra / Carmen Flys Junquera
• Interdisciplinary extensions. Re-reading Bible discourse as cultural ecology: an experiment / Stefan Scholz
• Thoreau's excursions, science, and hermeneutics / Dieter Schulz
• The myth of the econative? Indigenous presences in ecocritical narratives / Mita Banerjee
• No environmental justice without social justice: a green postcolonialist reading of Paule Marshall's The chosen place, the timeless people / Christa Grewe-Volpp
• Notes on contributors.

• Re-evaluations
• Reaching out to other disciplines
• New theoretical and practical paradigms.

This volume gathers nineteen of the most representative and defining essays from the journal ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment over the course of its first ten years. ISLE is the journal of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. Both the journal and the organization are devoted to ecological literary criticism and environmental scholarship in related disciplines in the United States and around the world. Following an introduction that traces the stages of ecocriticism's development, The ISLE Reader is organized into three sections, each of which reflects one of the general goals that the ecocritical articles in ISLE have sought to accomplish. The section titled "Re-evaluations" provides new readings of familiar environmental writers and new environmental perspectives on authors or literary traditions not usually considered from a green perspective. The writings in the "Reaching Out to Other Disciplines" section promote cross-pollination among various disciplines and methodologies in the environmental arts and humanities. The writings in the final section, "New Theoretical and Practical Paradigms, " are especially significant for the conceptual and methodological terrain they map. The ISLE Reader at once marks an important milestone, documents the state of research in ecocriticism and related interdisciplinary fields, provides a survey of the field, and points to new methodologies and possibilities for the future.
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One of the more frequently lodged, serious, and justifiable complaints about ecocritical work is that it is insufficiently theorized. "Ecocritical Theory" puts such claims decisively to rest by offering readers a comprehensive collection of sophisticated but accessible essays that productively investigate the relationship between European theory and ecocritique. With its international roster of contributors and subjects, it also militates against the parochialism of ecocritics who work within the limited canon of the American West. Bringing together approaches and orientations based on the work of European philosophers and cultural theorists, this volume is designed to open new pathways for ecocritical theory and practice in the twenty-first century.
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This volume gathers together papers presented at the conference "Ecocriticism in the Nordic Countries; Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow" held in Vasteras, Sweden, in 2017, organized by the research group Ecocritical Forum at Malardalen University. The conference, which was an attempt to survey local ecocritical activities, transcended Nordic boundaries, engaging scholars from Europe and the United States. This expansion from the local to the global mirrors the subject of the conference: ecocriticism, a cross-disciplinary field of research in the intersection of environmental issues and cultural expressions.The chapters here engage with topical issues such as the Anthropocene, sustainability in education, and civilizational critique, as well as schools of thought such as materialism, dark ecology and animal studies. The contributions discuss several types of cultural expressions, including film and other visual media, university course design and Nordic, and English language novels and poetry. This volume will attract the interest of readers from a number of different backgrounds, both in the Nordic countries and internationally.
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• Preface-- Won-Chung Kim
• 1. Partial Views: An Introduction to East Asian Ecocriticisms-- Simon C. Estok
• 2. Towards a Language of Life: Ecological Identity in the Work of Morisaki Kazue-- Yuki Masami
• 3. First There Were Stories: Ishimure Michiko's Narratives of Resistance and Reconciliation-- Bruce Allen
• 4. A Queer Ecofeminist Reading of 'Matsuri [Festival]' by Hiromi Ito-- Keitaro Morita
• 5. Multicultural Ecocriticism and Korean Ecological Literature-- Won-Chung Kim
• 6. The Cheongyecheon and Sustainable Urban Ecology: (Re)Configuring Korean Environmental Discourse and Ecocriticism-- Dooho Shin
• 7. Divided Circumstances of Korea and the Imagination of the Border-- Chan Je Wu
• 8. Corporate Globalization and the Resistance to it in Linda Hogan's People of the Whale and the poetry of Sheng Wu-- Peter I-min Huang
• 9. 'Sense of Wilderness, Sense of Time: Wu Mingyi's Nature Writing and the Aesthetics of Change-- Shiuhhuah Serena Chou
• 10. 'Li Ang's The Butcher's Wife (Shafu) and Taiwanese Ecocriticism-- Kathryn Yalan Chang
• 11. 'Environmental Dimensions in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Criticism-- Yang Jincai
• 12. 'Between Animalizing Nature and Dehumanizing Culture: Reading Chen Yingsong's Shennongjia Stories-- Lily Chen Hong
• 13. 'On the Four Keystones of Ecological Aesthetic Appreciation-- Cheng Xiangzhan
• 14. 'Afterword: Ecocritical and Literary Futures-- Karen Thornber.
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East Asian Ecocriticisms presents original essays from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China that define and characterize trends in East Asian ecocriticism. Drawing on diverse theoretical perspectives in environmental thought and scholarship, this volume presents valuable and original contributions to global conversations.
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• Notes on Contributors Introduction and Timeline Ecocriticism and the 'Mission of English'-- R.Kerridge PART I: SCOPING SCALES Walking in the Weathered World-- A.Cassel Encountering Social-Constructivist Rhetoric-- E.Giddens Teaching Romantic Ecology in Northern Canada-- K.Hutchings Teaching the Ecocriticism/Poco Dialogue-- E.James PART II: INTERDISCIPLINARY ENCOUNTERS Literature and Ecology-- L.Westling Developing a Sense of Planet-- U.K.Heise The Return of the Animal-- B.H.Welling & S.Kapel Teaching Culture and Climate Change-- G.Garrard & H.Gabriel PART III: GREEN CULTURAL STUDIES Teaching Green Cultural Studies and New Media-- A.Lioi Teaching Ecocriticism and Cinema-- A.Ivakhiv Practicing Deconstruction in an Age of Ecological Emergency-- T.Morton Selected Bibliography Index.
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Ecocriticism is one of the most vibrant fields of cultural study today, and environmental issues are controversial and topical. This volume captures the excitement of green reading, reflects on its relationship to the modern academy, and provides practical guidance for dealing with global scale, interdisciplinarity, apathy and scepticism.
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• Introduction: Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment Reinhard Hennig, Anna-Karin Jonasson, and Peter Degerman Part I: Nordic Anthropocene Narratives
• 1. "The Safest Place on Earth": Cultural Imaginaries of Safety in Scandinavia Lauren E. LaFauci
• 2. Moving Mountains: Cinema, Deep Time, and Climate Change in Hanna Ljungh's I am Mountain, to Measure Impermanence Anna Sofia Rossholm
• 3. "Visionary Cartography": The Aesthetic Mediation of the Anthropocene in Kaspar Colling Nielsen's Mount Copenhagen Jorgen Bruhn
• 4. Nordic Nature on the Edge of the North Sea: Kjersti Vik's Mando Katie Ritson
• 5. The Tale of The Great Deluge: Risto Isomaki's The Sands of Sarasvati as Climate Fiction Toni Lahtinen Part II: Language, Aesthetics, and the Non-Human in Nordic Environments
• 6. Of Wildflowers and Butterflies: Interrogating Species Names in Norwegian Poetry from the National Romantic to the Anthropocene Jenna Coughlin
• 7. From Anthropomorphism to Ecomorphism: Figurative Language in Tarjei Vesaas' Fuglane and Stina Aronson's Hitom himlen Beatrice G. Reed
• 8. Botanics in Dystopian Environments: Human-Plant Encounters in Contemporary Finnish-language Dystopian Fiction Hanna Samola
• 9. Interspecies Encounters - An Eco-Ethical Approach to Frida Nilsson's Ishavspirater Nina Goga Part III: Environmental Justice and the Postcolonial North
• 10. The Nature of Hunger: Karl August Tavaststjerna's Harda tider Frederike Felcht
• 11. Scandinavian Wilderness and Violence: Two Women Travelling in Sapmi 1907-1916 Kari Haarder Ekman
• 12. `Extractivism' in Sapmi: Elegiac Ecojustice in Liselotte Wajstedt's Film Kiruna Space Road and Marja Helander's Silence Photographs Cheryl J. Fish.
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Many contemporary environmental risks and global environmental changes occurring today are unprecedented in the history of human life on earth. However, the images and narratives through which humans relate to these phenomena are built on existing cultural tropes and narrative models. Cultural, social, and historical contexts strongly influence how we construct images and narratives of nature and the environment. It is therefore highly important to study such narratives in works of literature, film, and other forms of cultural expression in relation to the specific circumstances from which they arise. Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment is the first English language anthology that presents ecocritical research on northern European literatures and cultures. The contributors examine specifically Nordic narratives of nature and the environment, with a focus on the cultures and literatures of the modern northern European countries Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, including Sapmi, which is the land traditionally inhabited by the indigenous Sami people. Covering northern European literatures and cultures over a period of more than two centuries, this anthology provides substantial insights into both old and new narratives of nature and the environment as well as intertextual relations, the variety of cultural traditions, and current discourses connected to the Nordic environmental imagination. Case studies relating to works of literature, film, and other media shed new light on the role of culture, history and society in the formation of narratives of nature and the environment, and offer a comprehensive and multi-faceted overview of the most recent ecocritical research in Scandinavian studies.
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• Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Bruce Allen and Yuki Masami
• Chapter 1: The World of Kugai Jodo Watanabe Kyoji
• Chapter 2: Antiquity and Modernity of the Shiranui Sea Ikezawa Natsuki
• Chapter 3: The Danger of a Single Story: Ishimure Michiko's Literary Approach to the Minamata Disease Incident Yuki Masami
• Chapter 4: Mapping Modernity: Home and the World in Ishimure Michiko's Kugai Jodo Toyosato Mayumi
• Chapter 5: Literature Without Us Christine Marran
• Chapter 6: Ishimure Michiko as Contemporary Thinker Iwaoka Nakamasa
• Chapter 7: Atonement and At-one-ment: From Story of the Sea of Camellias to Lake of Heaven Patrick Murphy
• Chapter 8: Ishimure Michiko and Global Ecocriticism Karen Thornber
• Chapter 9: Another World in This World: Slow Violence, Environmental Time, and the Decolonial Imagination in Ishimure Michiko's Villages of the Gods Livia Monnet
• Chapter 10: The Noh Imagination in Shiranui and the Work of Ishimure Michiko Bruce Allen
• Chapter 11: Shiranui: A Contemporary Noh Play A Translation by Aihara Yuko and Bruce Allen About the Editors and Contributors.
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This collection of ecocritical essays focuses on the work of Ishimure Michiko, Japan's foremost writer on the environment and culture. It discusses Ishimure's writing in the context of the latest issues in ecocritical theory, with particular reference to environmental problems in Minamata and Fukushima, and argues for an expanded, more-than-Western understanding of literature, theory, and environmental responsibility.
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• Series Editor's Preface Introduction: Done and Undone
• 1 The Rise of Ecocriticism
• 2 Shakespeare and the Meaning of 'Life' in the Twenty-first Century
• 3 Animals in Shakespearian Ecocriticism
• 4 Crowds and Social Networks in Shakespeare Conclusion Index.
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Combining the latest scientific and philosophical understanding of humankind's place in the world with interpretative methods derived from other politically inflected literary criticism, ecocriticism is providing new insights into literary works both ancient and modern. With case-study analyses of the tragedies, comedies, histories and late romances, this book is a wide-ranging introduction to reading Shakespeare in the light of contemporary ecocritical theory.
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• Preface.- Introduction: Byron and Ecocriticism.- Chapter One: Byron's Cultural Ecology.- Chapter Two: Natural and Aesthetic Theology.- Chapter Three: Metaphysical Doubts, the Logic of Domination, and the Ecology of Freedom.- Chapter Four: Don Juan's Autre-Mondialisation.- Conclusion.
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This book is a thorough, eco-critical re-evaluation of Lord Byron (1789-1824), claiming him as one of the most important ecological poets in the British Romantic tradition. Using political ecology, post-humanist theory, new materialism, and ecological science, the book shows that Byron's major poems-Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, the metaphysical dramas, and Don Juan-are deeply engaged with developing a cultural ecology that could account for the co-creative synergies in human and natural systems, and ground an emancipatory ecopolitics and ecopoetics scaled to address globalized human threats to socio-environmental thriving in the post-Waterloo era. In counterpointing Byron's eco-cosmopolitanism to the localist dwelling praxis advocated by Romantic Lake poets, Byron's Nature seeks to enlarge our understanding of the extraordinary range, depth, and importance of Romanticism's inquiry into the meaning of nature and our ethical relation to it.
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• Machine generated contents note: 1. Edging Toward Ecology in Early American Natural History
• 2. Literary Activism and the Bioregional Agenda
• 3. West of Winthrop: Landscape and Language in Washington Territory
• 4. Iconography of Sabotage
• 5. Rage Against the Machine: Edward Abbey and Neo-Luddite Thought
• 6. Overtures to Sublimity: Assessing the Bureau of Reclamation Art Collection
• 7. American Nature Writing and the Wise-Use Movement
• 8. Greening the Dramatic Canon: Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People
• 9. Gifts and Misgivings in Place
• 10. Restoring Bioregions Through Applied Composition.

A chief innovation of Explorations in Ecocriticism is to push ecological criticism beyond its focus on literary studies to engage with other arts and culture. One chapter closely examines the pictures commissioned by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to valorize its big dam projects. Previously, no one has written about the large art collection that toured the nation under the auspices of the Smithsonian in the early 1970s, when the Bureau of Reclamation was under fire and new environmental regulations were becoming law. Another chapter, "An Iconography of Sabotage, " previously published in France as part of a Paris symposium, looks at the pictorial dimension of saboteurs throughout American history, with a special emphasis on the IWW and Earth First! The book draws extensively on the social sciences. Ecology and environment are treated too often as technical topics that go over the heads of lay readers. Many Americans care about air and water quality, the extinction of species, and the unfortunate politicization of science. But they also find the discourse daunting, the details exceedingly complex. By leavening such heavy subjects with current events, Explorations in Ecocriticism makes environmental issues accessible to lay readers and offers routes to sustainability in the United States today.
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• Foreword: Before Nature?, Brooke Holmes Abbreviations Introduction, Christopher Schliephake Part I: Environmental (Hi)stories: Negotiating Human-Nature Interactions (1) Environmental Mosaics Natural and Imposed, J. Donald Hughes (2) Poseidon's Wrath and the End of Helike: Notions about the Anthropogenic Character of Disasters in Antiquity, Justine Walter
• (3) Glades of Dread: The Ecology and Aesthetics of loca horrida, Aneta Kliszcz and Joanna Komorowska
• (4) Response: Hailed by the Genius of Ruins - Antiquity, the Anthropocene, and the Environmental Humanities, Hannes Bergthaller
• Part II: Close Readings: Literary Ecologies and the More-than-Human World (5) Eroticized Environments: Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy and the Roots of Erotic Ecocritical Contemplation, Thomas Sharkie and Marguerite Johnson (6) Interspecies Ethics and Collaborative Survival in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, Richard Hutchins
• (7) The Ecological Highway: Environmental Ekphrasis in Statius, Silvae 4.3, Christopher Chinn
• (8) Impervious Nature as a Path to Virtue: Cato in the Ninth Book of Bellum Civile, Vittoria Prencipe
• (9) Response: Re-Thinking Borderlines Ecologies - A Literary Ethics of Exposure, Katharina Donn
• Part III: 'Green' Genres: The Pastoral and Georgic Tradition (10) The Environmental Humanities and the Pastoral Tradition, Terry Gifford (11) "How / to make fields fertile": Ecocritical Lessons from the History of Virgil's Georgics in Translation, Laura Sayre
• (12) Nec provident futuro tempori, sed quasi plane in diem vivant - Sustainable Business in Columella's De Re Rustica?, Lars Kessler and Konrad Ott
• (13) Response: Back to the Future - Rethinking Time in Precarious Times, Roman Bartosch
• Part IV: Classical Reception: Presence, Absence, and the Afterlives of Ancient Culture (14) The Myth of Rhiannon: An Ecofeminist Perspective, Anna Banks (15) Emblems and Antiquity: An Exploration of Speculative Emblematics, Lucy Mercer and Laurence Grove
• (16) The Sustainability of Texts: Transcultural Ecology and Classical Reception, Christopher Schliephake
• (17) Daoist Spiritual Ecology in the "Anthropocene", Jingcheng Xu (18) Response: From Ecocritical Reception of the Ancients to the Future of the Environmental Humanities (with a detour via Romanticism), Kate Rigby
• Afterword: Revealing Roots - Ecocriticism and the Cultures of Antiquity, Serenella Iovino.
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By focusing on ancient culture and its reception, this book fills integrates antiquity into our current ecocritical theory and practice to fill in a gap in our environmental debates. It aims at a re-evaluation of antiquity in the light of present-day environmental concerns and re-frames our contemporary outlook on the more-than-human world in the light of cultures far removed from our own.
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• Acknowledgments Introduction Beate Neumeier
• Section 1: Politics of the Land and Indigenous Knowledge
• 1 The Museumesque in Pristine Wilderness Alexis Wright
• 2 The Smooth Space of the Nomads: Indigenous Outopia, Indigenous Heterotopia and the Example of Australia Norbert Finzsch
• 3 From Reverence to Rampage: Care for Country vs. Ruthless Exploitation Catherine Laudine
• Section 2: Colonial Legacies and Current Environmental Concerns
• 4 Australian Conservation Policies and the Owls of Lord Howe Island Helen Tiffin
• 5 Biological Colonisation in the Land of Flowers Anna Haebich
• 6 Moving Trees and Trading Melons: Reconstructing Local Knowledge and Settler Practices in 1840s South Australia Eva Bischoff
• Section 3: Ecocriticism and Fieldwork
• 7 Ecologies of the Otherwise: Glimpses of Australia after the Resources Boom Carsten Wergin
• 8 On The Beaten Track: Ambiguous Wilderness in the Tourist Space of Indigenous Australia Anke Tonnaer
• 9 Yan-nhanu Language of the Crocodile Islands: Anchoredness, Kin, and Country Dany Adone, Melanie Bruck, Bentley James
• Section 4: Ecocritical Approaches to Colonial Art
• 10 Reconstructing Representations: 'Australia' as Ecocritical Andragogy CA Cranston
• 11 Killing and Sentiment in the Colonial Australian Kangaroo Hunt Narrative Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver
• 12 Marriage, Mining and Environmental Destruction in Nineteenth-Century Fiction about Australia Philip Mead
• Section 5: Ecocritical Concerns Across Contemporary Arts: Indigenous Voices in Fiction, Poetry and Performing Arts
• 13 Performing the Anthropocene: Marrugeku's Cut the Sky Helen Gilbert
• 14 Corporate Interest and the Power of Mines in Indigenous Writing and Film: Alexis Wright's Carpentaria (2006) and Ivan Sen's Goldstone (2016) Victoria Herche and David Kern
• 15 Defying the 'Ecological Indian': The Urban Ecopoetry of Samuel Wagan Watson Katrin Althans
• Section 6: Coda - Crossing Boundaries
• 16 Australia's Great Barrier Reef: Two Personal Accounts Helen Tiffin and Sandra Williams About the Contributors.
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Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent investigates literary, historical, anthropological, and linguistic perspectives in connection with activist engagements. The necessary cross-fertilization between these different perspectives throughout this volume emerges in the resonances between essays exploring recurring concerns ranging from biodiversity and preservation policies to the devastating effects of the mining industries, to present concerns and futuristic visions of the effects of climate change. Of central concern in all of these contexts is the impact of settler colonialism and an increasing turn to indigenous knowledge systems. A number of chapters engage with questions of ecological imperialism in relation to specific sociohistorical moments and effects, probing early colonial encounters between settlers and indigenous people, or rereading specific forms of colonial literature. Other essays take issue with past and present constructions of indigeneity in different contexts, as well as with indigenous resistance against such ascriptions, while the importance of an understanding of indigenous notions of "care for country" is taken up from a variety of different disciplinary angles in terms of interconnectedness, anchoredness, living country, and living heritage. .
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• Acknowledgments Preface Chapter One: The Anthropocene
• Questions of Definition Chapter Two: Imaging and Imagining the Whole Earth: The Terrestrial as Norm Chapter Three: Emergent Unreadability: Rereading a Lyric by Gary Snyder Chapter Four: Scale Framing Chapter Five: Scale Framing: A Reading Chapter Six: Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Dehumanizing Reading: An Australian Test-Case Chapter Seven: Anthropocene Disorder Chapter Eight: Denial: A Reading Chapter Nine: The Tragedy that Climate Change is not 'Interesting' Conclusion.
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The twenty-first century has seen an increased awareness of the forms of environmental destruction that cannot immediately be seen, localised or, by some, even acknowledged. Ecocriticism on the Edge explores the possibility of a new mode of critical practice, one fully engaged with the destructive force of the planetary environmental crisis. Timothy Clark argues that, in literary and cultural criticism, the "Anthropocene", which names the epoch in which human impacts on the planet's ecological systems reach a dangerous limit, also represents a threshold at which modes of interpretation that once seemed sufficient or progressive become, in this new counterintuitive context, inadequate or even latently destructive. The book includes analyses of literary works, including texts by Paule Marshall, Gary Snyder, Ben Okri, Henry Lawson, Lorrie Moore and Raymond Carver.
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• Fiona BECKET and Terry GIFFORD: Introduction Val PLUMWOOD: Journey to the Heart of Stone John PARHAM: What is (ecological) `nature'? John Stuart Mill and the Victorian Perspective Judith RUGG: Fear and Flowers in Anya Gallaccio's Forest Floor, Keep off the Grass, Glaschu and Repens Hannes BERGTHALLER: Like a Ship to be Tossed: Emersonian Environmentalism and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping Gillian RUDD: In the Mirror of Middle Earth: Langland's use of the world as a book and what we can make of it Greg GARRARD: Poodles and Curs: Eugenic Comedy in Ibsen's An Enemy of the People Axel GOODBODY: The Hunter as Nature-Lover: Idyll, aggression and ecology in the German animal stories of Otto Alscher Graham HUGGAN: Postcolonialism, Ecocriticism and the Animal in Recent Canadian Fiction Matthew JARVIS: Barry MacSweeney's Moorland Romance Judith TUCKER: Painting Landscape: Mediating Dislocation Guinevere NARRAWAY: Modernity and the Politics of Place in Luis Trenker's Der verlorene Sohn Louise WESTLING: Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty: Ecopoetics and the Problem of Humanism Notes on Contributors Index.
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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".
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Articles on ecological literary criticism; chiefly with reference to Malayalam literature.

• Passing glories and romantic retrievals: avant-garde nostalgia and hedonist renewal / Kate Soper
• Green things in the garbage: ecocritical gleaning in Walter Benjamin's arcades / Catriona Sandilands
• Raymond Williams: materialism and ecocriticism / Martin Ryle
• Sense of place and lieu de mémoire: a cultural memory approach to environmental texts / Axel Goodbody
• From literary anthropology to cultural ecology: German ecocritical theory since Wolfgang Iser / Timo Müller
• The social theory of Norbert Elias and the question of the nonhuman world / Linda Williams
• From the modern to the ecological: Latour on Walden pond / Laura Dassow Walls
• Martin Heidegger, D.H. Lawrence, and poetic attention to being / Trevor Norris
• Merleau-Ponty's ecophenomenology / Louise Westling
• Gernot Böhme's ecological aesthetics of atmosphere / Kate Rigby
• Dialoguing with Bakhtin over our ethical responsibility to anothers / Patrick D. Murphy
• Coexistence and coexistents: ecology without a world / Timothy Morton
• The matter of texts: a material intertextuality and ecocritical engagements with the Bible / Anne Elvey
• There can be no democracy without a culture of difference / Luce Irigaray
• The ecological Irigaray? / Christopher Cohoon
• Cybernetics and social systems theory / Hannes Bergthaller
• Ecocentric postmodern theory: interrelations between ecological, quantum, and postmodern theories / Serpil Oppermann
• Affinity studies and open systems: a non-equilibrium, ecocritical reading of Goethe's Faust / Heather I. Sullivan
• Blake, Deleuze, and the emergence of ecological consciousness / Mark Lussier
• The biosemiotic turn: Abduction, or, the nature of creative reason in nature and culture / Wendy Wheeler.

One of the more frequently lodged, serious, and justifiable complaints about ecocritical work is that it is insufficiently theorized. Ecocritical Theory puts such claims decisively to rest by offering readers a comprehensive collection of sophisticated but accessible essays that productively investigate the relationship between European theory and ecocritique. With its international roster of contributors and subjects, it also militates against the parochialism of ecocritics who work within the limited canon of the American West. Bringing together approaches and orientations based on the work of European philosophers and cultural theorists, this volume is designed to open new pathways for ecocritical theory and practice in the twenty-first century.
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• List of Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ix
• Incipit: From Sub- to Exterranean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
• I: Terra Global Circus
• 1. Terra Has Standing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
• 2. Terre's Brilliant Mines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
• 3. Terra Globalized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
• II: Welcome to Mineland
• 4. Sickly Mountainsides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
• 5. Demonic Mines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
• III: Hiding in Exterranean Matter
• 6. Geomedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
• 7. Saline Intimacies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
• Explicit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
• Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157
• Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159
• Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199.
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Exterranean concerns the extraction of stuff from the Earth, a process in which matter goes from being sub- to exterranean. By opening up a rich archive of nonmodern texts and images from across Europe, this work offers a bracing riposte to several critical trends in ecological thought. By shifting emphasis from emission to extraction, Usher reorients our perspective away from Earthrise-like globes and shows what is gained by opening the planet to depths within. The book thus maps the material and immaterial connections between the Earth from which we extract, the human and nonhuman agents of extraction, and the extracted matter with which we live daily. Eschewing the self-congratulatory claims of posthumanism, Usher instead elaborates a productive tension between the materially-situated homo of nonmodern humanism and the abstract and aggregated anthropos of the Anthropocene. In dialogue with Michel Serres, Bruno Latour, and other interdisciplinary work in the environmental humanities, Usher shows what premodern material can offer to contemporary theory. Examining textual and visual culture alike, Usher explores works by Ronsard, Montaigne, and Rabelais, early scientific works by Paracelsus and others, as well as objects, engravings, buildings, and the Salt Mines of Wieliczka. Both historicist and speculative in approach, Exterranean lays the groundwork for a comparative ecocriticism that reaches across and untranslates theoretical affordances between periods and languages.
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• 1. The 'Anthropocene'?: Nature and complexity--
• 2. Scalar literacy--
• 3. Ecopoetry--
• 4. The challenge for prose narrative--
• 5. Material ecocriticism--
• 6. 'Postcolonial ecocriticism' ... and beyond?
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The Value of Ecocriticism offers a brief, incisive overview of the fast-changing field of environmental literary criticism in a bewildering age of global environmental threat. The intellectual, moral and political complexity of environmental issues, especially at the global scale (the so-called 'Anthropocene') forms a new challenge of inventiveness for both literature and criticism. Ecocriticism has been going through a period of radical change and has become a diverse and huge field on the exciting but unstable boundary between the humanities and the sciences, with a mix of cultural, political, scientific and activist strands. Its mantra is that the environmental crisis demands a reconsideration of society's basic values, constitution and purposes, and that art and literature can be vital in that work. As a leading figure in this field, Timothy Clark surveys recent developments in ecocriticism lucidly, but also sometimes critically. This book examines ecopoetics, material ecocriticism, and the ideas of world literature as well as contentious claims that we are living in a new geological epoch.
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• 1 Introduction: Anthropocentrism, the Anthropocene, and the Apocalypse.- 2 The Earth as Pinprick: Some Early Western Challenges to Anthropocentrism.- 3 Lowering the Human Throne: European Literature to 1900.- 4 Teleology, Ecology, and Unity in the French Enlightenment.- 5 Courses of Empire: Ecological Apocalypse in Early American Literature.- 6 Jeffers's Inheritors: "Transhuman Magnificence" in Late-Twentieth Century American Poetry.- 7 Antianthropocentrism and Science Fiction Part I: From Antiquity to World War II.- 8 Antianthropocentrism and Science Fiction Part II: After World War II and into the Twenty-first Century.
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This book is an analysis of literary texts that question, critique, or subvert anthropocentrism, the notion that the universe and everything in it exists for humans. Bryan Moore examines ancient Greek and Roman texts; medieval to twentieth-century European texts; eighteenth-century French philosophy; early to contemporary American texts and poetry; and science fiction to demonstrate a historical basis for the questioning of anthropocentrism and contemplation of responsible environmental stewardship in the twenty-first century and beyond. Ecological Literature and the Critique of Anthropocentrism is essential reading for ecocritics and ecofeminists. It will also be useful for researchers interested in the relationship between science and literature, environmental philosophy, and literature in general.
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• 1 Ecocriticism extends its boundaries - Peter Barry and William Welstead
• 2 'I am not afraid to die': contemporary environmental crisis fiction and the post-theory era - Louise Squire
• 3 Halfway-to-whole things: ecologies of writing and collaboration - Philip Gross
• 4 'Drawing closer': an ecocritical consideration of collaborative, cross-disciplinary practices of walking, writing, drawing and exhibiting - Harriet Tarlo and Judith Tucker
• 5 ARTlines: three walking artists in Iceland - Patti Lean
• 6 Nature matters: notes on Ackroyd and Harvey, ecocriticism and praxis - Eve Ropek
• 7 The word among stones - Peter Barry
• 8 Two familiar paths well-travelled - John Darwell
• 9 Aesthetics as ecology, or the question of the form of eco-art - Clive Cazeaux
• 10 Signs and sentiment in British wildlife art - William Welstead
• 11 Symphonic pastorals redux - Aaron S. Allen
• 12 Treaty obligations: science and art in Antarctica - Mike Pearson
• 13 On-site natural heritage interpretation: an ecocritical reading - William Welstead
• 14 A seamless image: the role of photomontage in the meaning-making of wind farm development - Jean Welstead Index
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This volume of essays explores the scope for a further extension of ecocriticism across the environmental humanities. Contributors, who include both established academics and early career researchers in the humanities, were given free rein to interpret the brief. The collection is unusual in that it considers collaboration between individuals both in the same discipline and across creative disciplines. Subjects include familiar environments close to home and those such as Iceland and Antarctica, where narratives of climate, geology and ecology provide a stark backdrop to creative output. A further innovation is the inclusion of essays on public art, natural heritage interpretation and the visualisation and aesthetic impact of wind farms. The book will be of interest to writers, artists, students and researchers in the environmental humanities and those with a general interest in the cultural response to the environment. -- .
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Ecocriticism has emerged as one of the most fascinating and rapidly growing fields of recent literary and cultural studies. The volume maps some of the most important developments within contemporary Ecocriticism from a variety of different angles, approaches, areas, and perspectives. It introduces relevant theoretical concepts and demonstrates their relevance for the analysis of texts and other cultural phenomena.
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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 transnational paradigm that promises to return a new sense of relevance to research and teaching in the humanities. A distinctive feature of the present handbook in comparison with other survey volumes is the combination of ecocriticism with cultural ecology, reflecting an emphasis on the cultural transformation of ecological processes and on the crucial role of literature, art, and other forms of cultural creativity for the evolution of societies towards sustainable futures. In state-of-the-art contributions by leading international scholars in the field, this handbook maps some of the most important developments in contemporary ecocritical thought. It introduces key theoretical concepts, issues, and directions of ecocriticism and cultural ecology and demonstrates their relevance for the analysis of texts and other cultural phenomena.
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• Table of Contents Foreword by Scott Slovic Acknowledgments Introduction: New International Voices in Ecocriticism Serpil Oppermann Part I. New Ecocritical Trends
• Chapter 1. Selves at the Fringes: Expanding Material Ecocriticism Kyle Bladow
• Chapter 2. "Global Subcultural Bohemianism": Postlocal Ecocriticism and Tim Winton's Breath William V. Lombardi
• Chapter 3. "What is it about you . . . that so irritates me?": Northern Exposure's Sustainable Feeling Sylvan Goldberg
• Chapter 4. Bang Your Head and Save the Planet: Gothic Ecocriticism Basak Agin Doenmez Part II. Nature and Human Experience
• Chapter 5. Un-Natural Ecopoetics: Natural/Cultural Intersections in Poetic Language and Form Sarah Nolan
• Chapter 6. "There's No Place like `Home'": Susanna Moodie, Shelter Writing, and Dwelling on the Earth Elise Mitchell
• Chapter 7. Against Ecological Kitsch: Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage Project Guangchen Chen
• Chapter 8. Neo-Aranyakas: An Enquiry into Mahasweta Devi's Forest Fictions Anu T. Asokan
• Chapter 9. Ecoerotic Imaginations in the Early Modernity and Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure Abdulhamit Arvas Part III. Human-Nonhuman Relations
• Chapter 10. What Are We? The Human Animal in Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape Christina Caupert
• Chapter 11. Familiar Animals: The question of human-animal relationships in Lauren Beukes's Zoo City Elzette Steenkamp
• Chapter 12. Dismantling "Conceptual Straitjackets" in Peter Dickinson's Eva Diana Villanueva Romero Afterword by Greta Gaard Contributors Index.
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With twelve original essays that characterize truly international ecocriticisms, New International Voices in Ecocriticism presents a compendium of ecocritical approaches, including ecocritical theory, ecopoetics, ecocritical analyses of literary, cultural, and musical texts (especially those not commonly studied in mainstream ecocriticism), and new critical vistas on human-nonhuman relations, postcolonial subjects, material selves, gender, and queer ecologies. It develops new perspectives on literature, culture, and the environment. The essays, written by contributors from the United States, Canada, Germany, Turkey, Spain, China, India, and South Africa, cover novels, drama, autobiography, music, and poetry, mixing traditional and popular forms. Popular culture and the production and circulation of cultural imaginaries feature prominently in this volume-how people view their world and the manner in which they share their perspectives, including the way these perspectives challenge each other globally and locally. In this sense the book also probes borders, border transgression, and border permeability. By offering diverse ecocritical approaches, the essays affirm the significance and necessity of international perspectives in environmental humanities, and thus offer unique responses to environmental problems and that, in some sense, affect many beginning and established scholars.
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• Introduction / Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, and Vidya Sarveswaran
• Chinese literature and environmental crises : plundering borderlands North and South / Karen Thornber
• Tibet, a topos in ecopolitics of the global South / Gang Yue
• Red China, green amnesia : locating environmental justice in contemporary Chinese literature / Cheng Li and Yanjun Liu
• Minamata and the symbolic discourse of the South / Tsutomu Takahashi
• Indian environmentalism and its fragments / Jyotirmaya Tripathy
• From Bhopal to biometrics : biological citizenship in the age of globalization / Pramod K. Nayar
• Beyond the eco-flaneur's footsteps : perambulatory narration in Zakes Mda's "Ways of Dying" / Laura A. White
• Reconsidering the eco-imperatives of Ukrainian consciousness : an introduction to Ukrainian environmental literature / Inna Sukhenko -- "Kissed by Lightning" and fourth cinema's natureculture continuum / Salma Monani
• "Under all the laws, natural, human, and divine" : reinterpreting La Leyenda Negra's colonial purpose / Dora Ramirez-Dhoore
• Mapmaking, rubbertapping : cartography and social ecology in Euclides da Cunha's "The Amazon : Land Without History" / Aarti S. Madan
• Down under : new world literatures and ecocriticism / George B. Handley.

Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development extends the energetic and socially important tradition of postcolonial ecocriticism to regions of the world not normally considered in the postcolonial context, such as southern Japan and eastern Europe. The text expands Karen Thornber's notion of "ecoambiguity" from her own work on East Asian literature and culture to many other countries.
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• Introduction: The ecological other
• Maimed away from mother earth: the disabled body in environmental thought and literature
• Ecological Indian or ecological other? environmentalism and the indigenous body in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead
• The poetics of trash: immigrant bodies in the borderland wilderness
• Conclusion: Toward an inclusive environmentalism.

With roots in eugenics and other social-control programs, modern American environmentalism is not always as progressive as we would like to think. In "The Ecological Other, " Sarah Jaquette Ray examines the ways in which environmentalism can create social injustice through discourses of the body. Ray investigates three categories of ecological otherness: people with disabilities, immigrants, and Native Americans. Extending recent work in environmental justice ecocriticism, Ray argues that the expression of environmental disgust toward certain kinds of bodies draws problematic lines between ecological "subjects"--those who are good for and belong in nature--and ecological "others"--those who are threats to or out of place in nature. Ultimately, "The Ecological Other" urges us to be more critical of how we use nature as a tool of social control and to be careful about the ways in which we construct our arguments to ensure its protection. The book challenges long-standing assumptions in environmentalism and will be of interest to those in environmental literature and history, American studies, disability studies, and Native American studies, as well as anyone concerned with issues of environmental justice.
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• Preface Annie Merrill Ingram Introduction: Ecocritical Spring and Evolutionary Discourse Andrew Belyea and Nanette Norris
• Chapter 1: Imaginary Representations and Cultural Performances Of Ecocriticism Eduardo Barros-Grela
• Chapter 2: Ecological Narrative or Imperial Exploitation: What's the "Monster" in Animal Planet's River Monsters? Christopher Justice
• Chapter 3: The Representation of Nature: An Ecocritical Reading of Juan Leon Mera's Cumanda Frederico A. Chalupa
• Chapter 4: Nature Versus War in Letters from the Front, 1914-1918 Sylvie Housiel
• Chapter 5: A Passage to India: An Ecocritical Reading Yomna Al-Abdulkareem
• Chapter 6: Nature, Women, and the Ecotext: Self-Discovery in Emily Nasrallah's Short Stories "The Cocoon" and "The Butterfly" Iman A. Hanafy
• Chapter 7: Jerusalem in the poetry of Tamim El-Barghouti and Yehuda Amichai Hessa Al-Kahlan
• Chapter 8: Omumu Concept of Begetting: A Pro-Feminist Lesson from Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart Chinyere Okafor
• Chapter 9: The Legacy of the American War in Vietnam: Tim O'Brien's "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong" Nanette Norris
• Chapter 10: National Narrative as Wilderness: An Ecocritical Interpretation of Civilizacion y barbarie in Modern Argentine Literature Anne E. Hiller
• Chapter 11: Unnatural Appetites and the Case of the Cannibal in Korean Cinema Colette Balmain
• Chapter 12: Is `Eco' Enough?: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, Wayland Drew's The Erthring Cycle, and Evolutionary Fiction Andrew Belyea.
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Scholars have begun critically assessing the relationship of modern environmental science, including the study of ecology, to the creation and study of art and culture. In this volume, the voices come from around the globe-some tentative in the stirring of conscious entwinement, other voices, strident and forthright, foresee a grim future, for the planet, for our humanity, as our impositions and consumptions have made monsters of us all and stripped us of our essence, the heart of what it is to be human.
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• 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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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.
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• 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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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.
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• Fiona BECKET and Terry GIFFORD: Introduction Val PLUMWOOD: Journey to the Heart of Stone John PARHAM: What is (ecological) `nature'? John Stuart Mill and the Victorian Perspective Judith RUGG: Fear and Flowers in Anya Gallaccio's Forest Floor, Keep off the Grass, Glaschu and Repens Hannes BERGTHALLER: Like a Ship to be Tossed: Emersonian Environmentalism and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping Gillian RUDD: In the Mirror of Middle Earth: Langland's use of the world as a book and what we can make of it Greg GARRARD: Poodles and Curs: Eugenic Comedy in Ibsen's An Enemy of the People Axel GOODBODY: The Hunter as Nature-Lover: Idyll, aggression and ecology in the German animal stories of Otto Alscher Graham HUGGAN: Postcolonialism, Ecocriticism and the Animal in Recent Canadian Fiction Matthew JARVIS: Barry MacSweeney's Moorland Romance Judith TUCKER: Painting Landscape: Mediating Dislocation Guinevere NARRAWAY: Modernity and the Politics of Place in Luis Trenker's Der verlorene Sohn Louise WESTLING: Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty: Ecopoetics and the Problem of Humanism Notes on Contributors Index.
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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".
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• 1. Introduction: Ecocriticism and the Anthropocene in Nineteenth Century Art and Visual Culture - Maura Coughlin and Emily Gephart--
• 2. "A Demonstration to the World:" Art, Political Ecology, and the Global American Civil War - Alan Braddock--
• 3. Crafting "Nature": Ecocriticism, Environmental Violence, and the Transnational Arts and Crafts Movement - Rosie Ibbotson--
• 4. An Ecolonial Reassessment of the Indian Craze: Elbridge Ayer Burbank and Standing Bear - Jessica Horton--
• 5. The Panama Canal Zone as Hybrid Landscape: A Case Study - Sarah Moore--
• 6. "A Gruesome Sight": Randolph Rogers's Nydia in A Marble World - Laura Turner Igoe--
• 7. Cryoscapes: Snow and Fantasies of Freezing in the Art of George Henry Durrie - George Philip LeBourdais--
• 8. Picturing Industrial Landscapes: Ecocriticism in Constantin Meunier's and Maximilien Luce's Paintings of Belgium's Black Country - Corina Weidinger--
• 9. Ruskin's Storm-Cloud and Tyndall's Blue Sky: New Materialist Diffractions of Nineteenth- century Atmospheres - Polly Gould--
• 10. Gilded Age Dining: Eco-Anxiety, Fisheries Management, and the Presidential China of Rutherford B. Hayes - Naomi Slipp--
• 11. Shifting Baselines, or Reading Art through Fish - Maura Coughlin--
• 12. "A Better Acquaintanceship with Our Fellows of the Wild": George Shiras and the Limits of Trap Camera Photography - Jessica Landau--
• 13. Petting Billy: Albert Laessle's Significant Other(ness) - Annie Ronan--
• 14. Looking at Leviathan: The First Live Cetaceans in Britain - Kelly Bushnell--
• 15. How to Wear the Feather: Bird Hats and Ecocritical Aesthetics - Emily Gephart and Michael Rossi--
• 16. Visualizations of "Nature": Entomology and Ecological Envisioning in the art of Willem Roelofs and Vincent van Gogh - Joan Greer--
• 17. Coffee House Slip: Ecocriticism and Global Trade in Francis Guy's Tontine Coffee House, N.Y.C. - Caroline Gillaspie--
• 18. "A Haunch of a Countess": John Constable and the Deer Park at Helmingham Hall - Kimberly Rhodes--
• 19. Cultivating Fruit and Equality: The Still-Life Paintings of Robert Duncanson - Shana Klein.
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In this volume, emerging and established scholars bring ethical and political concerns for the environment, nonhuman animals and social justice to the study of nineteenth-century visual culture. They draw their theoretical inspiration from the vitality of emerging critical discourses, such as new materialism, ecofeminism, critical animal studies, food studies, object-oriented ontology and affect theory. This timely volume looks back at the early decades of the Anthropocene to query the agency of visual culture to critique, create and maintain more resilient and biologically diverse local and global ecologies.
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• Acknowledgments Introduction Scott Slovic and David Taylor 1."Dimensions of Nature and Ecofeminism in the narratives of Excilia Saldana, " Mariana G. Serra Garcia 2."Renewing Niagara Falls, Burning the Archive in the Cuban Poetic Tradition, " Gabriel Horowitz 3."Men and Women of the Earth in the Texts of Marti's Travels, " Mayra Beatriz Martinez 4."Antonio Nunz Jimenez, Oswaldo Guayasamin, and the Recovery of Cuba's Progressive Intellectuals, " Susan E. Bender 5."Lydia Cabrera and The Narrative of Nature, " Margarita Mateo Palmer 6."The New World Baroque as Postcolonial Ecology in Alejo Carpentier's The Lost Steps." This essay was originally published in Postcolonial Ecologies (Oxford UP 2011), George B. Handley 7."Cuban Theatre and the Dilemma of Nature, " Karina Pino Gallardo 8."Among the Ruins of Ecological Thought: Parasites, Trash, and Nuclear Imaginings in La fiesta vigilada, " Christina Maria Garcia Appendix: Literary Responses 9."Of the African in Cuba, " Heriberto Feraudy Espino 10."The Gardener's Creed, " Alison Hawthorne Deming 11."Weight, " Sylvia Torti 12."The Cuba Poems, " Robert M. Pyle 13."Restauracion, " Laura Ruiz Montes 14."Lessons from Cuba, " Blas Falconer 15."El Trompo: In the Sierra Mountains with Guerilla de Teatreros, " David Taylor 16."Something Wonderful and Surreal: American Ecocritics and Environmental Writers Contemplate Exile in Cuba as Donald Trump Eyes the White House, " Scott Slovic Contributor's Biographies.
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An Island in the Stream, a collaboration between Cuban and American writers and scholars, is a diverse collection of ecocritical and literary responses to the natural environment in Cuba and to Cuban environmental culture. The chapters explore Cuba's vibrant cultural history with particular attention to literature and the visual and performing arts, which are viewed through such lenses as ecofeminism, postcolonial ecocriticism, multiculturalism, and the nuclear imaginary, among others. American environmentalists have long viewed modern Cuba as a model of progressive environmental thinking. In the 1990s, the Cuban government made sustainability a centerpiece of national policy initiatives. This book explores some of the historical foundations of contemporary sustainability efforts in Cuba, while also describing the current environmental situation in that part of the world. From Jose Marti to Excilia Saldana, from Antonio Nunez Jimenez to Lydia Cabrera, the chapters here aim to provide a starting point for others who wish to learn about Cuban environmental thought. The conjunction of scholarly and creative work is a gesture toward the interdependence of humanities research and artistic expression, both of which seek to encourage environmental and cultural mindfulness and sensitivity.
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• Introduction / Alan C. Braddock and Christoph Irmscher
• Filling the field : the Roanoke images of John White and Theodor de Bry / Timothy Sweet
• Vivification and the early art of William Bartram / Thomas Hallock
• Wonderful entanglements : Louis Agassiz, Antoine Sonrel, and the challenge of the Medusa / Christoph Irmscher
• The fate of wilderness in American landscape art : the dilemmas of "Nature's nation" / Angela L. Miller
• They might be giants : Galen Clark, Carleton Watkins, and the big tree / Elizabeth Hutchinson
• Bodies of water : Thomas Eakins, racial ecology, and the limits of civic realism / Alan C. Braddock
• Pastoral and anti-pastoral in Aaron Douglas's Aspects of negro life / Jeffrey Myers
• Alexandre Hogue's passion : ecology and agribusiness in the Crucified land / Mark Andrew White
• The sumptuary ecology of Buckminster Fuller's designs / Jonathan Massey
• "Every corner is alive" : Eliot Porter as an environmentalist and artist / Rebecca Solnit
• Alberta Thomas, Navajo pictorial arts, and ecocrisis in Dinétah / Janet Catherine Berlo
• Reframing the last frontier : Subhankar Banerjee and the visual politics of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge / Finis Dunaway.

Issues of ecology - both as they appear in the works of nature writers and in the works of literary writers for whom place and the land are central issues - have long been of interest to literary critics, and have given rise over the last two decades to the now firmly established field of ecocriticism. The essays in this volume, written by art historians and literary critics, seek to bring the study of American art into the expanding discourse of ecocriticism. "A Keener Perception" offers a series of case studies on topics ranging from John White's watercolors of the Carolina landscape executed during Sir Walter Raleigh's 1585 Roanoke expedition to photographs by environmental activist Eliot Porter. Rather than merely resurrect past instances of ecologically attuned art, this volume features essays that resituate many canonical figures, such as Thomas Eakins, Aaron Douglas, and Isamu Noguchi, in an ecocritical light by which they have yet to be viewed. Studying such artists and artworks through an ecocritical lens not only provides a better understanding of these works and the American landscape, but also brings a new interpretive paradigm the field of art history - a field that many of these critics believe would do well to embrace environmental concerns as a vital area of research. In highlighting the work of scholars who bring ecological agendas to their study of American art, as well as providing models for literary scholars who might like to better incorporate the visual arts into their own scholarship and teaching, "A Keener Perception" is truly a landmark collection - timely, consequential, and controversial.
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• Introduction: Setting the Ecotheatrical Scene
• Chapter One: The Environment on Stage in Production and Reception
• Chapter Two: Natural Disasters as Ecotheatrical Shapeshifters
• Chapter Three: An Ecotheatrical Perspective on Dearth in Performance
• Chapter Four: The Environment in Performance - Stage Invasion or Deus ex Machina?
• Chapter Five: Environmental Theatre, Site Specificity and Theatre Ecologies
• Chapter Six: Frugal Modes of Story-telling as Ecotheatre
• Chapter Seven: Bicycles on Stage - Shapeshifters or Scenery?
• Chapter Eight: Reperforming Reception - The Skriker in 1994 and 2015
• Chapter Nine: On the Importance of Intrinsic Environmental Responsibility.
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The Environment on Stage: Scenery or Shapeshifter? investigates a pertinent voice of theatrical performance within the production and reception of ecotheatre. Theatre ecologies, unavoidably enmeshed in the environment, describe the system of sometimes perverse feedback loops running through theatrical events, productions, performances and installations. This volume applies an ecoaware spectatorial lens to explore live theatre as a living ecosystem in a literal sense. The vibrant chemistry between production and reception, and the spiralling ideas and emotions this generates in some conditions, are unavoidably driven by flows of matter and energy, thus, by the natural environment, even when human perspectives seem to dominate. The Environment on Stage is an intentionally eclectic mix of observation, close reading and qualitative research, undertaken with the aim of exploring ecocritical ideas embedded in ecotheatre from a range of perspectives. Individual chapters identify productions, performances and installations in which the environment is palpably present on stage, as it is in natural disasters such as floods, storms, famine, conflict and climate change. These themes and others are explored in the context of site-specificity, subversive spectators, frugal modes of narrative, the shifting 'stuff' of theatre productions, and imaginative substitutions. Ecotheatre is nothing less than vibrant matter that lets the environment speak for itself.
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• 1. Introductory Chapter/ Environing at the Margins: Huanjing as a Critical Practice / Chia-ju Chang1.1 Why does China Matter?: From Industrial Modernity to Ecological Civilization1.2 Sketching a Field: Chinese Environmental Humanities (CEH)1.3 Two Keywords in CEH1.3.1 China and Hong Kong1.3.2 Beyond China and Hong Kong1.4 Chapter Outline1.4.1 Huanjing and the Practice of Environing1.4.2 Ziran and Nature1.5 Chapter Outline1.6 Conclusion
• Section I: Chinese Ecocriticism and Ecotranslation Studies2. Chapter One Building a Post-Industrial Shangri-La: Lu Shuyuan, Ecocriticism, and Tao Yuanming's "Peach-Blossom Spring" / Chia-ju Chang2.1 The Emergence of Ecological Discourses and Ecocriticism in the Cultural and Academic Domains2.2 Lu Shuyuan and Spiritual Ecology (Jingshen Shengtai)2.3 Tao Yuanming's Lost Generation: Migrant Workers' "Moonlight Poetry" and Tao Yuanming's "Specters"2.4 The Peach-Blossom Spring: Cultural Imagination and Beyond2.5 Conclusion
• 3.
• Chapter 2 The Nakedness of Hope: Solastalgia and Soliphilia in the Writings of Yu Yue, Zhang Binglin, and Liang Shuming / Stephen Roddy3.1 The Evil Twins of Materialism and Militarism3.2 Revolution, Not Evolution!3.3 Life, The Supreme Good3.4 Reviving Hope, Nakedly
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• Chapter 3 Blurred Centers/Margins: Ethnobotanical Healing in Writings by Ethnic Minority Women in China / Dong Isbister, Xiumei Pu and Stephen Rachman4.1 Allegorical Marginality: Herbs as Agents of Healing4.2 Cosmic Transcendence: "Snow Lotus"4.3 Conclusion
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• Chapter 4 From Jiang Rong to Jean-Jacques Annaud: An Ecological Rewrite of Wolf Totem / Runlei Zhai5.1 Annaud's Focus on the Ecological Theme5.2 The Ecological Theme as a Trans-national and Trans-cultural Bridge 5.3 Gain and Loss in the Ecological Rewrite5.4 Conclusion
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• Chapter 5 An Ecotranslation Manifesto: On the Translation of Bionyms in Nativist and Nature Writing from Taiwan / Darryl Sterk6.1 Waiting for the Name of a Flower with Huang Chun-Ming6.2 Searching For the Name of a Plant With Carl Linnaeus 6.3 Sustaining Bionym Diversity Through Translation 6.4 Translating the Name of a Fig with Wu Ming-Yi 6.5 Conclusion
• Section II: Chinese Ecocinema and Ecomedia Studies7.
• Chapter 6 Worms in the Anthropocene: The Multispecies World in Xu Bing's Silkworm Series / Kiu-wai Chu7.1 Worms in Contemporary Art7.2 Silkworm Books and the Ecological Art7.3 Non-human Agencies in the Multispecies World7.4 Anthropocene Metaphor and the Confucian Eco-Governance7.5 Concluding Notes: Rethinking Silk Road Culture and Civilization
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• Chapter 7 Place, Animals, and Human Beings: The Case of Wang Jiuliang's Beijing Besieged by Waste / Haomin Gong8.1 Place in Beijing Besieged by Waste8.2 Place of Waste and Urbanization8.3 Displacement of Commodities in a Consumer Society8.4 "Waste Becomes Politics": Human and Animal Positions in a Consumer Society8.5 Conclusion
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• Chapter 8 Land, Technological Triumphalism and Planetary Limits: Revisiting Human-Land Affinity / Xinmin Liu9.1 Misconceiving Tech-induced Modernity9.2 Unmasking the "Wizardry" of Cash Change-over 9.3 Mending Human-Land Affinity
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• Chapter 9 Eco-Media Events in China: From Yellow Eco-Peril to Media Materialism / Ralph Litzinger and Fan Yang10.1 Eco-media Events10.2 Media as Mediation10.3 Media Materialism: Time, Body, and Matter10.4 Chinese Eco-Media Events in Global Contexts10.5 Conclusion
• Section III: Sustainability, Organic Community, and Buddhist Multispecies Ethics11.
• Chapter 10 The Paradox of China's Sustainability / Christopher K. Tong11.1 "Three Thousand Years of Unsustainable Growth"11.2 "Green Paradoxes"11.3 The Future of China's Sustainability
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• Chapter 11 Contemplating Land: An Ecocritique of Hong Kong / Winnie L. M. Yee12.2 Farming as Living and the Tactics of Everyday Life 12.3 The Film Festival as a Cross-cultural Connection12.4 Planting Hong Kong's Future and Green Activism12.5 Conclusion
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• Chapter 12 The Intersection of Sentient Beings and Species, Traditional and Modern, in the Practices and Doctrine of Dharma Drum Mountain / Jeffrey Nicolaisen13.2 Animals13.3 Are Trees Sentient?13.4 Animal Release13.5 Sheng Yen's Ecological Views13.6 Conclusion
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• Chapter 13 An Exposition of the Buddhist Philosophy of Protecting Life and Animal Protection / Chao-Hwei Shih (translated by Jeffrey Nicolaisen)14.2 Dependent arising, Emptiness, Protecting life, and the Middle Way: The Definition and Connotation of Core Concepts 14.3 The Difference in Treatment Between Sentient Beings and Nonsentient Beings14.4 The Categorization of the Academic Discipline of Animal Ethics14.5 Animal Ethics and Ethical Principles14.6 Justification for the Obligation to Protect Life14.7 Middle Way: Situational Considerations of the Principle of Equality14.8 The Middle Way Thinking on Reasonable Self-Defense14.9 Adjusting to Differences in the Level of Development of Enlightened Nature14.10 Conclusion.
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Chinese Environmental Humanities showcases contemporary ecocritical approaches to Chinese culture and aesthetic production as practiced in China itself and beyond. As the first collaborative environmental humanities project of this kind, this book brings together sixteen scholars from a diverse range of disciplines, including literary and cultural studies, philosophy, ecocinema and ecomedia studies, religious studies, minority studies, and animal or multispecies studies. The fourteen chapters are conceptually framed through the lens of the Chinese term huanjing (environment or "encircling the surroundings"), a critical device for imagining the aesthetics and politics of place-making, or "the practice of environing at the margin." The discourse of environing at the margins facilitates consideration of the modes, aesthetics, ethics, and politics of environmental inclusion and exclusion, providing a lens into the environmental thinking and practices of the world's most populous society.
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• Introduction Sidney I. Dobrin
• 1. Rhetoric and recapture: theorising digital game ecologies through EA's The Sims series Melissa Bianchi
• 2. Ecocomposition: writing ecologies in digital games Kyle Matthew Bohunicky
• 3. Rub trees, crittercams, and GIS: the wired wilderness of Leanne Allison and Jeremy Mendes' Bear 71 Sarah Jaquette Ray
• 4. Reading environment(s): digital humanities meets ecocriticism Stephanie Posthumus and Stefan Sinclair
• 5. Signals of nature, prestidigital ecology Andrew Hageman
• 6. The sustainability of our digital environments: the language of the upgrade path and e-waste Caroline Stone Short.
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With the title serving as an umbrella term to distinguish simulated places from real places, Digital Environments signifies a shift in how we think about interactions with places and spaces, both real and simulated. The very idea of digital environments, though, complicates such distinctions, asking simultaneously (and perhaps reductively) as to how agents engage networks, and if there can be such distinctions between virtual and real place, between agents and networks. For ecocritics, the term brings together two concepts that are frequently cast as oppositional: digital standing in for technology/technological and environments often used to represent nature/wilderness. Thus, reading digital environments as technological nature asks us to consider not only the relationships between technologies and natures, but the very idea that there can be such distinctions, or that there might be technological natures and natural technologies. In this way, then, the play of digital/environment exposes complexities in how we theorize both technology and nature, complexities that often result in the inevitable exclusivity and polarity between the two ideas. The real and the simulated, the technological and the natural, all unfold in flagrant and complex ways that make evident the need for framing technological theories within the gaze of ecocriticism and the need for framing ecocritical theories within technological gazes. This collection considers the possibilities of bringing ecocritical approaches into conversation with digital environments. The intent is to initiate a dialogue between two areas of research often understood as disparate. This book was originally published as a special issue of Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism.
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• Introduction: Critical Environments: World-Ecology, World Literature, and the Caribbean Chris Campbell and Michael Niblett Prologue: The Brutalization of Truth Sir Wilson Harris Catastrophes and Commodity Frontiers Chapter One: The Political Ecology of Storms in Caribbean Literature Sharae Deckard Chapter Two: Zombies, Gender and World-Ecology: Gothic Narrative in the Work of Mayra Montero and Ana Lydia Vega Gothic Narratives Kerstin Oloff Chapter Three: Gade nan mize-a m tonbe: Vodou, the 2010 Earthquake, and Haiti's Environmental Catastrophe Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert Ecological Revolutions and the Nature of Knowledge Chapter Four: 'The Abstract Globe in One's Head': Robert Schomburgk, Wilson Harris, and the Ecology of Modernism Michael Niblett Chapter Five: Mining and Mastery: Ethnography and World-Ecology in the work of Charles Barrington Brown Chris Campbell Chapter Six: Hegemony in Guyana: REDD-plus and State Control over Indigenous Peoples and Resources Janette Bulkan Economies of Extraction: Restructuring and Resistance Chapter Seven: Ecopoetics of Pleasure and Power in Oonya Kempadoo's Tide Running Molly Nichols Chapter Eight: Jamaica and the Beast: Negril and the Tourist Landscape Brian Hudson Chapter Nine: Ecology, Identity, and Colonialism in Martinique: The Discourse of an Ecological NGO (1980-2011) Malcom Ferdinand Epilogue: Tingaling Oonya Kempadoo Index.
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Bringing together the work of literary critics, social scientists, activists, and creative writers, this edited collection explores the complex relationships between environmental change, political struggle, and cultural production in the Caribbean. It ranges across the archipelago, with essays covering such topics as the literary representation of tropical storms and hurricanes, the cultural fallout from the Haitian earthquake of 2010, struggles over the rainforest in Guyana, and the role of colonial travel narratives in the reorganization of landscapes. The collection marks an important contribution to the fields of Caribbean studies, postcolonial studies, and ecocriticism. Through its deployment of the concept of 'world-ecology', it offers up a new angle of vision on the interconnections between aesthetics, ecology, and politics. The volume seeks to grasp these categories not as discrete (if overlapping) entities, but rather as differentiated moments within a single historical process. The 'social' changes through which the Caribbean has developed have always involved changes in the relationship between humans and the rest of nature; and these changes have long been entangled with the emergence of new kinds of cultural production. The contributors to this collection provide a series of unique insights into the relationship between aesthetic practice and specific ecological processes and pressure-points in the region. More than ever Caribbean writers and artists are engaging explicitly with environmental concerns in their work; this volume responds to that trend by bringing literary and cultural criticism into sustained dialogue with debates around local, national, and regional ecological issues.
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• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• I. Bodies of Naples: A Journey in the Landscapes of Porosity
• II. Cognitive Justice and the Truth of Biology: Death (and Life) in Venice
• III. Three Earthquakes: Wounds, Signs, and Resisting Arts in Belice, Irpinia, and L'Aquila.
• IV. Slow: Piedmont's Stories of Landscapes, Resistance, and Liberation.
• Works Cited
• Index.
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Written by one of Europe's leading critics, Ecocriticism and Italy reads the diverse landscapes of Italy in the cultural imagination. From death in Venice as a literary trope and petrochemical curse, through the volcanoes of Naples to wine, food and environmental violence in Piedmont, Serenella Iovino explores Italy as a text where ecology and imagination meet. Examining texts where justice, society and politics interlace with stories of land and life, ecosystems and body cells, pollution and redemption, the book argues that literature, art and criticism are able to transform the unexpressed voices of the land and its people into stories of resistance and offer us a practice of liberation.
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• Foreword / by M. Jimmie Killingsworth
• The slow apocalypse revisited, or The Supremes
• The green and the brown
• What not to do as the world burns
• The denialists, or What if this present were the world's last night?
• The hopists, or A sense of an ending
• The decivilizationists, or Impure in a world unpurged
• iPod and world system
• Entertaining futility
• The narrow corduroy road to the interior.

In playfully pessimistic and thought-provoking essays, author Andrew McMurry explores a vital but fundamentally perverse human practice: destroying our planet while imagining we are not. How are humans able to do this? Entertaining Futility: Despair and Hope in the Time of Climate Change investigates the discourses of hope, progress, and optimism in the era of climate change, concepts that, McMurry argues, are polite names for blind faith, greed, and wishful thinking. The itemized list of humanity's arrogance can quickly lead to despair, so McMurry compensates by presenting the news in a darkly comic and irreverent style. McMurry believes human culture relies on a full suite of rhetorical tricks to distract us from our own demise. He investigates the role language, discourse, media, and technology play in shaping perceptions and misperceptions of our complex environmental crises. Writing in a mode that freely mixes the scholarly, fictive, poetic, and personal, McMurry draws on philosophy, history, ecology, film, science fiction, and pop culture to raise questions that are difficult to face, let alone answer. In the author's words, "our age is utterly paralyzing unless you can crack jokes about it." Entertaining Futility offers no easy solutions to today's environmental calamities and, in fact, claims that perhaps the continual proposing of solutions is part of the problem. Instead, McMurry encourages readers to examine their own deeply held beliefs about the environment and the future and to look more closely at where those beliefs originate. By pulling back the curtain, he reveals the rhetorical and cultural ruses that distract us from the reality of our environmental crises.
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Study of the sea, both in terms of human interaction with it and its literary representation, has been largely ignored by eco critics. In Shakespeare's Ocean, Dan Brayton foregrounds the maritime dimension of a writer whose plays and poems have had an enormous impact on literary notions of nature and, in so doing, plots a new course for eco critical scholarship. Shakespeare lived during a time of great expansion of geographical knowledge. The world in which he imagined his plays was newly understood to be a sphere covered with water. In vital readings of works ranging from The Comedy of Errors to the valedictory The Tempest, Brayton demonstrates Shakespeare's remarkable conceptual mastery of the early modern maritime world and reveals a powerful benthic imagination at work.
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• Chapter 1 Preface
• Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
• Chapter 3 Chapter One: Introduction
• Chapter 4 Chapter Two: The Influence of Dickinson and Frost
• Chapter 5 Chapter Three: Sex, Gender, and the Rural Erotic
• Chapter 6 Chapter Four: Fiction and Non-Fiction
• Chapter 7 Chapter Five: Ecospirituality and Ecopolitics
• Chapter 8 Chapter Six: Economy, Place, and Space
• Chapter 9 Chapter Seven: The Experimental Environment
• Chapter 10 Chapter Eight: Valhalla
• Chapter 11 Chapter Nine: Conclusion
• Chapter 12 Notes
• Chapter 13 Bibliography
• Chapter 14 Index.
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Matthew J. Babcock's Private Fire: Robert Francis's Ecopoetry and Prose is an examination of the life and work of one of America's most intriguing but tragically obscure writers. Babcock uses his own personal relationship Robert Francis's work, which emphasizes conservation and connectedness to our natural surroundings, to illuminate both overtones and nuances that are undoubtedly useful to those interested in poetry and ecology. Babcock begins with a brief biographical section intended to set the tone for readers previously unfamiliar with Robert Francis and then continues into an analysis of the influence of Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost on Francis's work. Starting in Chapter Three, Private Fire shifts into the realm of literary analysis and discusses various angles of Francis's work, from representations of gender and sexual identity; prose contributions, both fiction and non-fiction; religion and politics; to themes of conservation, place-making, experimental poetic styles, and asceticism, finishing with a discussion of Francis's only long narrative poem, 'Valhalla.' This poem joins other prophetic works in musing upon environmental apocalypticism. Matthew J. Babcock finishes this detailed and thoughtful volume with concluding meditations that situate Robert Francis with his contemporaries, helping readers to locate him historically and contextually amongst other 20th century writers. By using biography and literary theory as the lens through which one interprets Francis's work, Private Fire: Robert Francis's Ecopoetry and Prose successfully navigates the literary and cultural environment surrounding a poet who himself was so connected with the world around him.
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• Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Bruce Allen and Yuki Masami
• Chapter 1: The World of Kugai Jodo Watanabe Kyoji
• Chapter 2: Antiquity and Modernity of the Shiranui Sea Ikezawa Natsuki
• Chapter 3: The Danger of a Single Story: Ishimure Michiko's Literary Approach to the Minamata Disease Incident Yuki Masami
• Chapter 4: Mapping Modernity: Home and the World in Ishimure Michiko's Kugai Jodo Toyosato Mayumi
• Chapter 5: Literature Without Us Christine Marran
• Chapter 6: Ishimure Michiko as Contemporary Thinker Iwaoka Nakamasa
• Chapter 7: Atonement and At-one-ment: From Story of the Sea of Camellias to Lake of Heaven Patrick Murphy
• Chapter 8: Ishimure Michiko and Global Ecocriticism Karen Thornber
• Chapter 9: Another World in This World: Slow Violence, Environmental Time, and the Decolonial Imagination in Ishimure Michiko's Villages of the Gods Livia Monnet
• Chapter 10: The Noh Imagination in Shiranui and the Work of Ishimure Michiko Bruce Allen
• Chapter 11: Shiranui: A Contemporary Noh Play A Translation by Aihara Yuko and Bruce Allen About the Editors and Contributors.
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This collection of ecocritical essays focuses on the work of Ishimure Michiko, Japan's foremost writer on the environment and culture. It discusses Ishimure's writing in the context of the latest issues in ecocritical theory, with particular reference to environmental problems in Minamata and Fukushima, and argues for an expanded, more-than-Western understanding of literature, theory, and environmental responsibility.
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• Poemas nicaragüenses : mapa ecopoético de una comunidad imaginada
• Libro de horas : contradiscursos ecocéntricos en una nueva edad media cristiana
• El jaguar y la luna : la simbolización del mundo más que humano
• La geopsique del Gran Lago y sus islas en Cantos de Cifar y del Mar Dulce
• El mundo ecocéntrico en Siete árboles contra el atardecer
• Diálogos y reciprocidad con el mundo en El nicán-náuat y El indio y el violín
• Dos entrevistas a Pablo Antonio Cuadra. "En el ojo del huracán" (julio, 1982). " La poesía es la plenitud de la Palabra del Hombre" (enero, 2000).

• Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Preface (Milarepa's Stone Tower); I; II; III; IV; Part I: The Great Earth; 1 Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth; I; II; III; IV; 2 Geology (Poetic Word); I; II; III; IV; V; VI; Part II: Turtle Island; 3 Place (Land and Sea, Earth and Sky); I; II; III; IV; 4 Bears (The Many Palaces of the Earth); I; II; III; Part III: Earth Democracy; 5 The Great Potlatch; I; II; III; IV; V; 6 Seeds of Earth Democracy; I; II; III; IV; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

• Prologue:
• The Plot Introduction:
• The Case for King Lear
• Part 1 - Ecocriticism
• Chapter 1:
• Meteorological Reading
• Chapter 2:
• `What is the cause of thunder?': The Storm's Three Ambiguities
• Chapter 3:
• Cataclysmic Shame: Three Views of Lear's Mortal Body in the Storm
• Part 2 - Performance History
• Chapter 4:
• Ecocritical Big History
• Chapter 5:
• The Spectacular Jacobean Theatre
• Chapter 6:
• Storms of Fortune: Industrial Technology and Nahum Tate,
• c.1680-c.1900
• Chapter 7:
• Lear's Head: The Rise of the Psychological Metaphor, 1908-1955.
• Chapter 8:
• Towards the Flood, 1962-2016 Epilogue:
• The Art of Necessity Bibliography.
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From providential apocalypticism to climate change, this ground-breaking ecocritical study traces the performance history of the storm scene in King Lear to explore our shifting, fraught and deeply ideological relationship with stormy weather across time. This Contentious Storm offers a new ecocritical reading of Shakespeare's classic play, illustrating how the storm has been read as a sign of the providential, cosmological, meteorological, psychological, neurological, emotional, political, sublime, maternal, feminine, heroic and chaotic at different points in history. The big ecocritical history charted here reveals the unstable significance of the weather and mobilises details of the play's dramatic narrative to figure the weather as a force within self, society and planet.
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• Acknowledgments Introduction
• Tom Lynch and Susan N. Maher
• 1. "The Bay of Broken Things": The Experience of Loss in the Work of Loren Eiseley
• Susan Hanson
• 2. "Never Going to Cease My Wandering": Loren Eiseley and the American Hobo
• M. Catherine Downs
• 3. "The Places Below": Mapping the Invisible Universe in Loren Eiseley's Plains Essays
• Susan N. Maher
• 4. Unearthing Urban Nature: Loren Eiseley's Explorations of City and Suburb
• Michael A. Bryson
• 5. Anthropomorphizing the Essay: Loren Eiseley's Representations of Animals
• Kathleen Boardman
• 6. "The Borders between Us": Loren Eiseley's Ecopoetics
• Tom Lynch
• 7. Lessons of an Interdisciplinary Life: Loren Eiseley's Rhetoric of Profundity in Popular Science Writing and "Two Cultures" Pedagogy
• Pamela Gossin
• 8. Artifact and Idea: Loren Eiseley's Poetic Undermining of C. P. Snow
• Mary Ellen Pitts
• 9. The Spirit of Synecdoche: Order and Chaos Contend in the Metaphors of Loren Eiseley
• Jacqueline Cason
• 10. In a Dark Wood: Dante, Eiseley, and the Ecology of Redemption
• Anthony Lioi
• 11. Emerson and Eiseley: Two Religious Visions
• Jonathan Weidenbaum
• 12. Epic Narratives of Evolution: John Burroughs and Loren Eiseley
• Stephen Mercier
• 13. Eiseley and Jung: Structuralism's Invisible Pyramid
• John Nizalowski
• 14. From the American Great Plains to the Steppes of Russia: Loren Eiseley Transplanted
• Dimitri N. Breschinsky Works Cited Contributors Index.
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Loren Eiseley (1907-77) is one of the most important American nature writers of the twentieth century and an admired practitioner of creative nonfiction. A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Eiseley was a professor of anthropology and a prolific writer and poet who worked to bring an understanding of science to the general public, incorporating religion, philosophy, and science into his explorations of the human mind and the passage of time. As a writer who bridged the sciences and the humanities, Eiseley is a challenge for scholars locked into rigid disciplinary boundaries. Artifacts and Illuminations, the first full-length collection of critical essays on the writing of Eiseley, situates his work in the genres of creative nonfiction and nature writing. The contributing scholars apply a variety of critical approaches, including ecocriticism and place-oriented studies ranging across prairie, urban, and international contexts. Contributors explore such diverse topics as Eiseley's use of anthropomorphism and Jungian concepts and examine how his work was informed by synecdoche. Long overdue, this collection demonstrates Eiseley's continuing relevance as both a skilled literary craftsman and a profound thinker about the human place in the natural world.
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• Unnatural narratology and weird realism in Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation / Jon Hegglund
• Object-oriented plotting and nonhuman realities in DeLillo's Underworld and Iñárritu's Babel / Marco Caracciolo
• Readerly dynamics in dynamic climatic times: Cli-Fi and rhetorical narrative theory / Eric Morel
• A comedy of survival: narrative progression and the rhetoric of climate change in Ian McEwan’s Solar / Markku Lehtimäki
• Ecocriticism as narrative ethics: triangulating environmental virtue in Richard Powers’s Gain / Greg Garrard
• Feeling nature: narrative environments and character empathy / Alexa Weik von Mossner
• Finding a practical narratology in the work of restoration ecology / Matthew M. Low
• Worldmaking environmental crisis: climate fiction, econarratology, and genre / Astrid Bracke
• Narrative in the Anthropocene / Erin James.

"Collection of essays connecting ecocriticism and narrative theory to encourage constructive discourse on narrative's influence of real-world environmental perspectives and the challenges that necessitate revision to current narrative models"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1. Introduction: defining the EcoGothic - Andrew Smith and William Hughes
• 2. Panic, paranoia, and pathos: ecocriticism in the eighteenth-century Gothic novel - Lisa Kroger
• 3. Monsters on the Ice and Global Warming: From Mary Shelley and Sir John Franklin to Margaret Atwood and Dan Simmons - Catherine Lanone
• 4. Algernon Blackwood: Nature and Spirit - David Punter
• 5. 'A Strange Kind of Evil': Superficial Paganism and False Ecology in The Wicker Man - William Hughes
• 6. Bodies on earth: exploring sites of the Canadian EcoGothic - Alanna F. Bondar
• 7. Margaret Atwood's Monsters in the Canadian EcoGothic - Shoshannah Ganz
• 8. From Salem Witch to Blair Witch: The Puritan Influence on American Gothic Nature -Tom J. Hillard
• 9. 'The Blank Darkness Outside': Ambrose Bierce and Wilderness Gothic at the End of the Frontier - Kevin Corstorphine
• 10. Locating Subjectivity in the Post-Apocalypse: The American Gothic journeys of Jack Kerouac, Cormac McCarthy, and Jim Crace - Andrew Smith
• 11. A Gothic Apocalypse: Encountering the Monstrous in American Cinema - Susan J. Tyburski
• 12. The Riddle Was the Angel in the House: Towards an American Ecofeminist Gothic - Emily Carr
• 13. 'Uncanny States': Global EcoGothic and the World-Ecology in Rana Dasgupta's Tokyo Cancelled - Sharae Deckard Index.
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This book will provide the first study of how the Gothic engages with ecocritical ideas. Ecocriticism has frequently explored images of environmental catastrophe, the wilderness, the idea of home, constructions of 'nature', and images of the post-apocalypse - images which are also central to a certain type of Gothic literature. By exploring the relationship between the ecocritical aspects of the Gothic and the Gothic elements of the ecocritical, this book provides a new way of looking at both the Gothic and ecocriticism. Writers discussed include Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Margaret Atwood, Cormac McCarthy, Dan Simmons and Rana Dasgupta. The volume thus explores writing and film across various national contexts including Britain, America and Canada, as well as giving due consideration to how such issues might be discussed within a global context.
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As ecofeminism continues to gain attention from multiple academic discourses, the field of literary criticism has been especially affected by this philosophy/social movement. Scholars using ecofeminist literary criticism are making new and important arguments concerning literature across the spectrum and issues of environment, race, class, gender, sexuality, and other forms of oppression. The essays in New Directions in Ecofeminist Literary Criticism highlight the intersections of these oppressions through the works of different authors including Barbara Kingsolver, Ruth Ozeki, Linda Hogan and Flora Nwapa, and demonstrate the expansion of ecofeminist literary criticism to a more global scale as well as important connections with the field of environmental justice. This collection offers fresh insight and expands the important discussion surrounding the field of ecofeminism and literature.
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• Toward an affective ecocriticism: placing feeling in the anthropocene / Kyle Bladow and Jennifer Ladino
• Part 1. Theoretical foundations
• "What do we do but keep breathing as best we can this / minute atmosphere": Juliana Spahr and anthropocene anxiety / Nicole M. Merola
• From nostalgic longing to solastalgic distress: a cognitive approach to Love in the anthropocene / Alexa Weik von Mossner
• A new gentleness: affective ficto-regionality / Neil Campbell
• Part 2. Affective attachments: land, bodies, justice
• Feeling the fires of climate change: land affect in Canada's tar sands / Jobb Arnold
• Wendell Berry and the affective turn / William Major
• A hunger for words: food affects and embodied ideology / Tom Hertweck
• Uncanny homesickness and war: loss of affect, loss of place, and reworlding in Redeployment / Ryan Hediger
• Part 3. Animality: feeling species and boundaries
• Desiring species with Darwin and Freud / Robert Azzarello
• Tragedy, ecophobia, and animality in the anthropocene / Brian Deyo
• Futurity without optimism: detaching from anthropocentrism and grieving our fathers in Beasts of the southern wild / Allyse Knox-Russell
• Part 4. Environmentalist killjoys: politics and pedagogy
• The queerness of environmental affect / Nicole Seymour
• Feeling let down: affect, environmentalism, and the power of negative thinking / Lisa Ottum
• Feeling depleted: ecocinema and the atmospherics of affect / Graig Uhlin
• Coming of age at the end of the world: the affective arc of undergraduate environmental studies curricula / Sarah Jaquette Ray.

"Affective Ecocriticism approaches emergent affects in relation to environments with a sense of urgency and an accessible style that will speak to readers across a range of disciplinary and geographic locations"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: The Ecosomatic Paradigm in American Literature Matthew J. C. Cella Part I: Ecosomatic Approaches to Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century American Fiction
• 1. Claiming the Land: Fictions of Wholeness in Hope Leslie Amanda Stuckey 2.Does Disability Have a Place in Utopia?: Cross-Cultural Possibilities Melville's Typee Elizabeth S. Callaway 3.Willa Cather's Ambivalent Pastoralism Revisited: Disability and Environmental Ethics in O Pioneers! Matthew J. C. Cella Part II: Ecosomatic Approaches to American Popular Culture
• 4. Frank Miller's Daredevil: Blindness, the Urban Environment, and the Social Model of Disability James J. Donahue
• 5. Contesting Boundaries of "Natural" Embodiment and Identity in Young Adult Literature Phoebe Chen
• 6. The Metaphor of the Cattle Chute in Temple Grandin's Books Katherine Lashley Part III: Ecosomatic Readings of American Places
• 7. "The whole imprisoning wasteland beyond": Forces of Nature, Ableism, and Suburban Dis-ease in Midcentury Literature Jill E. Anderson
• 8. A Disability Studies Analysis of Rust Belt Narratives Barbara George.
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The essays in Disability and the Environment in American Literature contribute new insights into the fields of literary disability studies and ecocriticism by placing the two fields in dialogue. The book offers readings of American literary narratives of place that expose the deep relationship between embodiment and emplacement and that explore the ways in which a scrutiny of this relationship might open up our understanding of disability.
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Indian ecocriticism has not yet adequately demonstrated the applicability of ecological/deep ecological/tinai principles to visual texts. Culture and Media: Ecocritical Explorations closes this gap at the most opportune moment. Though this volume accommodates ecologically oriented interpretations from several cultures across the world, it reserves the centre stage for Indian ecocriticism and ecotheory quite appropriately. The volume effectively challenges the major documents on ecocriticism and theory (published by international presses), which have been reluctant to give space to tinai criticism and theory that transcend Dravidian or Tamil boundaries. The day is not far when cinema of the world, shaped by tinai theory, will employ tinai hermeneutics to gain fresh insight, which, in turn, will feed into the processes of creation and production of relevant and great movies.
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• Foreword, Philip J. Deloria Introduction, Joni Adamson and Kimberly N. Ruffin
• Section 1. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Citizenship and Belonging
• 1. Zora Neale Hurston and the Environmental Ethic of Risk, Susan Scott Parrish
• 2. Haitian Soil for the Citizen's Soul, Karen Salt
• 3. Intimate Cartographies: Defining Navajo Ecological Citizenship through U.S. Mapping, Soil Conservation and Livestock Reduction Programs, Traci Bynne Voyles
• 4. Getting Back to an Imagined Nature: The Mannahatta Project and Environmental Justice, Jeffrey Myers
• 5. The Oil Desert, Michael Ziser
• 6. Japanese Roots in American Soil: National Belonging in David Mas Masumoto's Harvest Son and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's The Legend of Fire Horse Woman, Sarah D. Wald
• Section II. Border Ecologies
• 7. Our Nations and All Our Relations: Environmental Ethics in William S. Yellow Robe Jr.'s The Council, John Gamber
• 8. Preserving the Great White North: Migratory Birds, Italian Immigrants, and the Making of Ecological Citizenship Across the U.S.-Canada Border, 1900-1924, Ivan Grabovac
• 9. Boundaries of Violence: Water, Gender and Development in Context, Julie Sze
• 10. U.S. Border Ecologies, Environmental Criticism, and Transnational American Studies, Claudia Sadowski-Smith
• 11. Climate Justice and Trans-Pacific Indigenous Feminisms, Hsinya Huang
• Section III. Ecological Citizenship in Action
• 12. Roots of Nativist Environmentalism in America's Eden, Lisa Sun-Hee Park and David Naguib Pellow
• 13. Wielding Common Wealth in Washington, D.C. and Eastern Kentucky: Creative Social Practice in Two Marginalized Communities, Kirsten Crase
• 14. "Climate Justice Now! Imagining Grassroots Eco-Cosmopolitanism, Giovanna Di Chiro
• 15. The Los Angeles Urban Rangers, Trailblazing the Commons, Stephanie LeMenager.
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This collection reclaims public intellectuals and scholars important to the foundational work in American Studies that contributed to emerging conceptions of an "ecological citizenship" advocating something other than nationalism or an "exclusionary ethics of place." Co-editors Adamson and Ruffin recover underrecognized field genealogies in American Studies (i.e. the work of early scholars whose scope was transnational and whose activism focused on race, class and gender) and ecocriticism (i.e. the work of movement leaders, activists and scholars concerned with environmental justice whose work predates the 1990s advent of the field). They stress the necessity of a confluence of intellectual traditions, or "interdisciplinarities, " in meeting the challenges presented by the "anthropocene, " a new era in which human beings have the power to radically endanger the planet or support new approaches to transnational, national and ecological citizenship. Contributors to the collection examine literary, historical, and cultural examples from the 19th century to the 21st. They explore notions of the common-namely, common humanity, common wealth, and common ground-and the relation of these notions to often conflicting definitions of who (or what) can have access to "citizenship" and "rights." The book engages in scholarly ecological analysis via the lens of various human groups-ethnic, racial, gendered, coalitional-that are shaping twenty-first century environmental experience and vision. Read together, the essays included in American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship create a "methodological commons" where environmental justice case studies and interviews with activists and artists living in places as diverse as the U.S., Canada, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Taiwan and the Navajo Nation, can be considered alongside literary and social science analysis that contributes significantly to current debates catalyzed by nuclear meltdowns, oil spills, hurricanes, and climate change, but also by hopes for a common future that will ensure the rights of all beings--human and nonhuman-- to exist, maintain, and regenerate life cycles and evolutionary processes.
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• Anarky / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
• Enter Anthropocene, circa 1610 / Steve Mentz
• The Anthropocene reads Buffon, or, Reading like geology / Noah Heringman
• Punctuating history circa 1800 : the air of Jane Eyre / Thomas H. Ford
• Romancing the trace : Edward Hitchcock's speculative ichnology / Dana Luciano
• Partial readings : Thoreau's studies as natural history's casualties / Juliana Chow
• Scale as form : Thomas Hardy's rocks and stars / Benjamin Morgan
• Anthropocene interruptions : energy recognition scenes and the myth of global cooling / Justin Neuman
• Stratigraphy and empire : waiting for the barbarians, reading under duress / Jennifer Wenzel
• Reading vulnerably : indigeneity and the scale of harm / Matt Hooley
• Accelerated reading : fossil fuels, infowhelm, and archival life / Derek Woods
• Climate change and the struggle for genre / Stephanie LeMenager
• Ungiving time : reading lyric by the light of the Anthropocene / Anne-Lise François.

"Considers the implications of the Anthropocene, the proposed geological epoch in which a human "signature" appears in the lithostratigraphic record, for literary history and critical method. Explores the status of reading in the history of geology, and of geohistory in literature"--Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: Ecocritical Geographies, Geocritical Ecologies, and the Spaces of Modernity-- Robert T. Tally Jr. and Christine M. Battista PART I: TRANS-THEORETICAL PRACTICES
• 1. Geocriticism Meets Ecocriticism: Bertrand Westphal and Environmental Thinking-- Eric Prieto
• 2. Ecocritical and Geocritical Conjunctions in North Atlantic Environmental Multimedia and Place-Based Poetry-- Derek Gladwin
• 3. Noncommittal Commitment: Alien Spaces of Ecocosmopolitics in Recent World Literature-- Ted Geier PART II: SURVEYING TERRITORIES
• 4. Affective Edgelands: Wildness, History and Technology in Britain's Post-industrial and Post-natural Topographies-- Tom Bristow
• 5. 'The sea was the river, the river the sea': The Severn Estuary and the Bristol Channel in Robert Minhinnick and Philip Gross-- Louise Chamberlain
• 6. Black Jungle, Beautiful Forest: A Postcolonial, Green Geocriticism of the Indian Sundarbans-- Luca Raimondi PART III: ECOCRITICAL EXPLORATIONS
• 7. Outside Within: Natural Environment and Social Place in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca-- Stanka Radovic
• 8. Joseph Hall's Mundus Alter et Idem and the Geo-satirical Indictment of the English Crown-- Dan Mills
• 9. Nature and the Oppressed Female Body in Nora Okja Keller's Ecofeminist Aesthetics-- Silvia Schultermandl
• 10. Toward an Environmental Imagination of Displacement in Contemporary Transnational American Poetry-- Judith Rauscher.
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Although treated as two distinct schools of thought, ecocriticism and geocriticism have both placed emphasis on the lived environment, whether through social or natural spaces. For the first time, this interdisciplinary collection of essays addresses the complementary and contested aspects of these approaches to literature, culture, and society.
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• Acknowledgments
• Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: People of the Whale, Corporate Globalization, Night Markets,
• and Cetacean Activism Chapter Three: Mean Spirit, Environmental Justice, and Postcolonial Ecocriticism Chapter Four: Water Women, Mega Dams, Solar Storms, Ecofeminism
• Chapter Five: Power, Dark Ecology, and Animal Studies
• Chapter Six: Conclusion: Ecopoetry
• Bibliography About the author.
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Linda Hogan and Contemporary Taiwanese Writers: an Ecocritical Study of Indigeneities and Environment forges links between an author whose work belongs to a well known body of indigenous literature, Native American literature, and authors who represent a less recognized body of indigenous literature, Taiwanese literature. It does so by focusing on content that critically relates to the work of ecocritics, ecofeminists, ecojustice scholars, postcolonial ecocritics, and animal studies scholars.
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• Ecocriticism and ecofiction : definitions and analyses
• Ecofiction's roots and historical development
• Contemporary ecofiction
• Native American and Canadian ecofiction
• Ecofiction from all around the world
• Ecoromance : doin' the wild thing
• The real West
• Green speculative fiction
• Mysteries.

As interest in environmental issues grows, many writers of fiction have embraced themes that explore the connections between humans and the natural world. Ecologically themed fiction ranges from profound philosophical meditations to action-packed entertainments. ""Where the Wild Books Are"" offers an overview of nearly 2,000 works of nature-oriented fiction. The author includes a discussion of the precursors and history of the genre, and of its expansion since the 1970s. He also considers its forms and themes, as well as the subgenres into which it has evolved, such as speculative fiction, ecodefense, animal stories, mysteries, ecofeminist novels, cautionary tales, and others. In this title, a brief summary and critical commentary of each title is included. Dwyer's scope is broad and covers fiction by Native American writers as well as ecofiction from writers around the world. Far more than a mere listing of books, ""Where the Wild Books Are"" is a lively introduction to a vast universe of engaging, provocative writing. It can be used to develop book collections or curricula. It also serves as an introduction to one of the most fertile areas of contemporary fiction, presenting books that will offer enjoyable reading and new insights into the vexing environmental questions of our time.
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• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Why the Nature Essay?
• 2 Nature Writing Revisited: Method and Scope of this Study
• 3 Roaming in an Interdisciplinary Field: Textual Corpus
• 4 Outline of Content
• 1 The Nature Essay and Genre
• 1 Aspects of the Essay: Characteristics of Form and Function
• 1.1 The Arrival of the Nature Essay around 1800
• 2 Ways of Knowing and Making Sense of Nature
• 2.1Reflection, Description, Introspection - Communication of Knowledge in the Nature Essay
• 2.2Epistemes: Encyclopaedic-Scientific, Metaphysical-Spiritual, Ethical
• 2"The Butterfly Collector": The Encyclopaedic-Scientific Episteme 1.1 The Aesthetics of Collecting and Connecting in Alexander von Humboldt'sIdeen zu einer Physiognomie der Gewachse and Ernst Junger's Subtile Jagden
• 1.1 Alexander von Humboldt, Ideen zu einer Physiognomik der Gewachse
• 1.2 Ernst Junger, Subtile Jagden
• 2 Measuring and Mapping Nature in the Nineteenth Century: Henry David Thoreau'sThe Pond in Winterand Alexander von Humboldt's UEber die Steppen und Wusten
• 2.1 Alexander von Humboldt, UEber die Steppen und Wusten
• 2.2 Henry David Thoreau's Survey of Walden Pond
• 3 Data Prose - Contemporary Nature Essay Writing: Eliot Weinberger's Naked Mole-Rats, David Foster Wallace's Consider the Lobster, and Andreas Martin Widmann's Mind Gardens
• 3.1 Eliot Weinberger, Naked Mole-Rats
• 3.2 David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster
• 3.3 Andreas Martin Widmann, Mind Gardens
• 3 "Mother Nature's Son": The Metaphysical-Spiritual Episteme
• 1 Epiphanic Moments and Revelations: J.A. Baker'sThe Peregrine and Kathleen Jamie'sPeregrines, Ospreys, Cranes
• 1.1 J.A. Baker, The Peregrine
• 1.2 Kathleen Jamie, Peregrines, Ospreys, Cranes
• 2 The Dying Animal: Unsettling Human-Insect Relations through Elegy and Irony in Virginia Woolf'sThe Death of the Mothand Robert Musil's DasFliegenpapier
• 2.1 Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth
• 2.2 Robert Musil, Das Fliegenpapier
• 3 Tales of Transformation and Experience: Thoreau'sWaldenand Andreas Maier and Christine Buchner'sBullau. Versuch uber Natur
• 3.1 Henry David Thoreau, Walden
• 3.2 Andreas Maier and Christine Buchner, Bullau. Versuch uber Natur
• 4"Animal Farm": The Ethical Episteme - Animal Ethics, Stories of Decline, and Writing Entangled Agencies
• 1 Aesthetics of Empathy and Shock: Animal Ethics
• 2 Stories of Decline: The Apocalypse Template
• 3 Decentred Perspectives: Writing Entangled Agencies
• Conclusion: Paradigm Shifts in the Nature Essay
• 1 Panoramic Outlook
• Bibliography Index.
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The Nature Essay: Ecocritical Explorations is the first extended study of a powerful literary form born out of the traditions of Enlightenment and Romanticism. It traces the varied stylistic paradigms of the `nature essay' down to the present day. Reading essays as platforms for ecological discourse, the book analyses canonical and marginalised texts, mainly from German, English and American literature. Simone Schroeder argues that the essay's environmental impact is rooted in its negotiation of scientific, poetic, spiritual, and ethical modes of perceiving nature. Together, the chapters on these four aspects form a historical panorama of the nature essay as a genre that continues to flourish in our time of ecological crisis. Authors discussed include: Alexander von Humboldt, Henry David Thoreau, Virginia Woolf, Robert Musil, Ernst Junger, W.G. Sebald, Kathleen Jamie, and David Foster Wallace.
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• Chemical Pollution - Changes in Land Use - Translocality.
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This book applies the analytical methods of third-wave ecocriticism to selected twenty-first century Italian literary works. Turning abstract issues into narrative form, literary writing increases awareness of environmental issues as well as exerting a deep emotive influence on its readership. The author analyses Roberto Saviano's "Gomorra", Kai Zen's "Delta blues", Wu Ming's "Previsioni del tempo", Simona Vinci's "Rovina", Giancarlo di Cataldo's "Fuoco!", Laura Pugno's "Sirene", and Alessandra Montrucchio's "E poi la sete". He demonstrates that these works offer an invaluable opportunity to communicate meaningfully and accessibly the discomforting truths of global environmental change.
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• CONTENTS
• Introduction:
• Chaucer and Ecopoetics 1.1 Anthropocentrism, Anthropotropism, Inscription
• 1.2 Ecopoetics and Ecoaesthetics
• 1.3 The Ecopoetics of the General Prologue
• Ecophobia and the Knight's
• Tale 2.1 Dark Imagining: Ekphrasis and Allegory
• 2.2 Getting Green: Wordplay in the Knight's Tale
• Nocturnal Ecologies: Metaphor in the Miller's and the Reeve's
• Tale 3.1 Metaphor in the Miller's Tale
• 3.2 Metaphor in the Reeve's Tale
• 4.
• Iterability, Anthropocentrism, and the Franklin's Tale
• 4.1 Iterability and Rejection
• 4.2 Improper Literalisms
• 4.3 Avenging the Rocks
• 5. The Unnatural Personifications of the Physician's Tale
• 5.1 Allegorizing Virgin Nature
• 5.2 Allegory versus History
• 5.3 Inhuman Poetics
• 6. Ruminating on and in the Monk's Tale
• 6.1 Reasons for Not Reading the Monk's Tale
• 6.2 Reading like a Monk
• 6.3 Rereading the Monk's Tale
• Index.
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Chaucerian Ecopoetics performs ecocritical close readings of Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry. Shawn Normandin explains how Chaucer's language demystifies the aesthetic charm of his narratives and calls into question the anthropocentrism they often depict. This text combines ecocriticism with reading techniques associated with deconstruction, to provide innovative interpretations of the General Prologue, the Knight's Tale, the Miller's Tale, the Reeve's Tale, the Franklin's Tale, the Physician's Tale, and the Monk's Tale. In stressing the importance of rhetorical nuance and literary form, Chaucerian Ecopoetics enables readers to better understand the ideological prehistory of today's environmental crisis.
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• Foreword / by M. Jimmie Killingsworth
• Acknowledgments
• The slow apocalypse revisited, or The Supremes
• The green and the brown
• What not to do as the world burns
• The denialists, or What if this present were the world's last night?
• The hopists, or A sense of an ending
• The decivilizationists, or Impure in a world unpurged
• iPod and world system
• Entertaining futility
• The narrow corduroy road to the interior.

In playfully pessimistic and thought-provoking essays, author Andrew McMurry explores a vital but fundamentally perverse human practice: destroying our planet while imagining we are not. How are humans able to do this? Entertaining Futility: Despair and Hope in the Time of Climate Change investigates the discourses of hope, progress, and optimism in the era of climate change, concepts that, McMurry argues, are polite names for blind faith, greed, and wishful thinking. The itemized list of humanity's arrogance can quickly lead to despair, so McMurry compensates by presenting the news in a darkly comic and irreverent style. McMurry believes human culture relies on a full suite of rhetorical tricks to distract us from our own demise. He investigates the role language, discourse, media, and technology play in shaping perceptions and misperceptions of our complex environmental crises. Writing in a mode that freely mixes the scholarly, fictive, poetic, and personal, McMurry draws on philosophy, history, ecology, film, science fiction, and pop culture to raise questions that are difficult to face, let alone answer. In the author's words, "our age is utterly paralyzing unless you can crack jokes about it." Entertaining Futility offers no easy solutions to today's environmental calamities and, in fact, claims that perhaps the continual proposing of solutions is part of the problem. Instead, McMurry encourages readers to examine their own deeply held beliefs about the environment and the future and to look more closely at where those beliefs originate. By pulling back the curtain, he reveals the rhetorical and cultural ruses that distract us from the reality of our environmental crises.
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• Preface Environmental Reading: Premodern Literature in Its Places Introduction
• Oecologies: Engaging the World, from Here
• 1. The Love of Life: Reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Close to Home
• 2. Backyard
• 3. Bold Riparian Schemes: Imagining Water and the Hydrosocial Cycle across Time and Space
• 4. Distemperature in A Midsummer Night's Dream
• 5. Biodynamic Viticulture, Natural Wine, and the Premodern
• 6. Sustainability
• 7. Consuming Debt
• 8. Failure
• 9. A Singular World: The Perils and Possibilities of the Bird's Eye View
• 10. Liquids and Solids: Indigeneity as Capricious Matter in William Colenso's Colonial Encounters
• 11. Ruined Medievalism
• 12. Tangled History: Nature, Nation, and Canadian Neomedievalism
• Afterword: Environmentalism, Eco-Cosmopolitanism, and Premodern Thought.
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Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary Imagination explores how the cognitive and physical landscapes in which scholars conduct research, write, and teach have shaped their understandings of medieval and Renaissance English literary "oecologies." The collection strives to practice what Ursula K. Heise calls "eco-cosmopolitanism, " a method that imagines forms of local environmentalism as a defense against the interventions of open-market global networks. It also expands the idea's possibilities and identifies its limitations through critical studies of premodern texts, artefacts, and environmental history. The essays connect real environments and their imaginative (re)creations and affirm the urgency of reorienting humanity's responsiveness to, and responsibility for, the historical links between human and non-human existence. The discussion of ways in which meditation on scholarly place and time can deepen ecocritical work offers an innovative and engaging approach that will appeal to both ecocritics generally and to medieval and early modern scholars.
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• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: The Birth of a New Type of Fiction
• A Brief History of Global Warming
• What is Climate Fiction?
• The Context of this Book
• Presentation of Content
• Chapter 1: Cultural Hermeneutics
• Hermeneutics and Preunderstanding
• Approaching Climate Fiction
• Chapter 2: The Social Collapse
• From the Broken Social Contract to Climate War
• Post-apocalyptic Worlds
• The Uncanny as a Mood
• The Uncanny Relation to the World
• Chapter 3: The Judgment
• The Judgment in Cultural History
• The Judgment in Climate Fiction
• Serres, Latour, and the Imagination Form
• Another Uncanny Relation to the World
• The Judgment as a Denial of Responsibility
• Chapter 4: The Conspiracy
• The Conspiracy in Cultural History
• Doomsday Atmospheres
• The Arrival of the Super Computer
• Crichton and The Conspiracy
• The Suspicious Relation to the World
• Chapter 5: The Loss of Wilderness
• The Loss of Wilderness in Cultural History
• The Destructiveness of Humanity
• Another Suicidal Ice Lover
• Heidegger and the Imagination Form
• The Loving Relation to the World
• Chapter 6: The Sphere
• The Sphere in Cultural History
• Bubbles
• The Globe
• Sloterdijk and the Imagination Form
• The Anthropotechnical Relation to the World
• Chapter 7: The Birth of a New Perspective
• Beyond the Grid of the Imagination Forms
• Two Functions of Climate Fiction
• Bibliography.
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Climate Fiction and Cultural Analysis argues that the popularity of the term "climate fiction" has paradoxically exhausted the term's descriptive power and that it has developed into a black box containing all kinds of fictions which depict climatic events and has consequently lost its true significance. Aware of the prospect of ecological collapse as well as our apparent inability to avert it, we face geophysical changes of drastic proportions that severely challenge our ability to imagine the consequences. This book argues that this crisis of imagination can be partly relieved by climate fiction, which may help us comprehend the potential impact of the crisis we are facing. Strictly assigning "climate fiction" to fictions that incorporate the climatological paradigm of anthropogenic global warming into their plots, this book sets out to salvage the term's speculative quality. It argues that climate fiction should be regarded as no less than a vital supplement to climate science, because climate fiction makes visible and conceivable future modes of existence within worlds not only deemed likely by science, but which are scientifically anticipated. Focusing primarily on English and German language fictions, Climate Fiction and Cultural Analysis shows how Western climate fiction sketches various affective and cognitive relations to the world in its utilization of a small number of recurring imaginaries, or imagination forms. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of ecocriticism, the environmental humanities, and literary and culture studies more generally.
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• Preface M. Jimmie Killingsworth and Jacqueline Palmer
• Introduction Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan and Vidya Sarveswaran
• Part I: New Frameworks
• 1. Ecocriticism and Discourse Andrew McMurry
• 2. The Climate of Change: Graphic Adaptation, `The Rime of the Modern Mariner', and the Ecological Uncanny Pramod Nayar
• 3. Eco Churches, Eco Synagogues, Eco Hollywood: 21st Century Practical Responses to Lynn White, Jr.'s and Andrew Furman's 20th Century Readings of Environments in Crisis C.A. Cranston
• 4. Communicating Resistance in/through an Aquatic Ecology in KR Meera's `The Gospel of Yudas' Gayathri Prabhu
• 5. Transformative Entanglements: Birds and Humans in Three Nonfictional Texts Wendy Woodward
• 6. Discovering the Weatherworld: Combining Ecolinguistics, Ecocriticism, and Lived Experience Arran Stibbe
• 7. Narrative Communication in Environmental Fiction: Cognitive and Rhetorical Approaches Markku Lehtimaki
• 8. Postcolonial Development, Socio-ecological Degradation, and Slow Violence in Pakistani Fiction Saba Pirzadeh
• 9. How the Material World Communicates: Insights from Material Ecocriticism Serpil Oppermann
• 10. Scale in Ecological Science Writing Derek J. Woods
• 11. The Literal and Literary Conflicts of Climate Change: The Climate Migrant and the Unending War Against Emergence Shane Hall
• 12. Reconceptualizing the Individual as a Social Actor in Environmental Communication Julia B. Corbett
• Part II: Pragmatic Communication
• 13. Directionality in Thomas Cole's The Oxbow: Ecocritical Art History and Visual Communication Alan C. Braddock
• 14. Challenges to Developing a Long-Term Environmental Perspective: PAN and DIM Patrick D. Murphy
• 15. The `Chernobyl Syndrome' in U.S. Nuclear Fiction: Toward Risk Communication Parameters of `Nuclear Phobia' Inna Sukhenko
• 16. Art as Eco-Protest and Communication in Tanure Ojaide's Selected Poetry Joyce Agofure
• 17. Nature Writing in the Anthropocene Christian Hummelsund Voie
• 18. Experimental Ecocriticism, Or How to Know if Literature Really Works Wojciech Malecki
• 19. Grey Literature, Green Governance James Goebel
• 20. When Thirst Had Undone So Many: A Postcolonial Ecocritical Analysis of Water Crisis in Ruchir Joshi's `The Last Jet-Engine Laugh' and Girish Malik's `Jal' T. Ravichandran and Nibedita Bandyopadhyay
• 21. Cows, Corn, and Communication. How the Discourse around GMOs Impacted Legislation in the EU and the USA Annka Liepold
• 22. Science, Wonder, and Environmental Activism: Rachel Carson Saskia Beudel
• Part III: Non-Western Environmental Communication
• 23. Designing the Communication of Traditional Ecological Knowledge: A Noto Case Study Yuki Masami
• 24. Cosmopolitan Communication and Ecological Consciousness in Latin America: Miguel Gutierrez's `Babel, el paraiso' Roberto Forns-Broggi
• 25. Communicating with the Cosmos: Contemporary Brazilian Women Poets and the Embodiment of Spiritual Values Izabel Brandao and Edilane Ferreira da Silva
• 26. Women's Street Artivism in India and Brazil: Shilo Shiv Suleman's Pan-Indigenous Environmental Movement Aarti S. Madan
• 27. Novelist as Eco-Shaman: Buket Uzuner's `Water' [Su] as Requesting Spirits to Help the Earth in Crisis Pinar Batur and Ufuk OEzdag
• 28. Environmentalism in the Realm of Malaysian Novels in English Zainor Izat Zainal
• 29. Ecomedia Nurtures Japanese Ecological Identity Keitaro Morita
• 30. Indigenous Interiority as Nature-culture-sacred Continuum: An Ecological Analysis of `Have You Seen the Arana?' Rayson K. Alex
• 31. Risk, Resistance, and Memory in Two Narratives by Asian Women Chitra Sankaran
• 32. Environmental NGOs and Environmental Communication in China Chen Hong
• Afterword Homero Aridjis and Betty Ferber.
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Ecocriticism and environmental communication studies have for many years co-existed as parallel disciplines, occasionally crossing paths but typically operating in separate academic spheres. These fields are now rapidly converging, and this handbook aims to reinforce the common concerns and methodologies of the sibling disciplines. The Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication charts the history of the relationship between ecocriticism and environmental communication studies, while also highlighting key new paradigms in information studies, diverse examples of practical applications of environmental communication and textual analysis, and the patterns and challenges of environmental communication in non-Western societies. Contributors to this book include literary, film and religious studies scholars, communication studies specialists, environmental historians, practicing journalists, art critics, linguists, ethnographers, sociologists, literary theorists, and others, but all focus their discussions on key issues in textual representations of human-nature relationships and on the challenges and possibilities of environmental communication. The handbook is designed to map existing trends in both ecocriticism and environmental communication and to predict future directions. This handbook will be an essential reference for teachers, students, and practitioners of environmental literature, film, journalism, communication, and rhetoric, and well as the broader meta-discipline of environmental humanities.
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"Culture, Environment and Ecopolitics" brings together a series of new reflections on historical and current ecological and environmental predicaments. By way of critical interventions in environmental thought, and through engagements with literary, visual, architectural, philosophical, and more general cultural studies scholarship, this collection of essays by an international panel of writers breaks new interpretative ground. While techno-science has in some quarters been elevated to a master discourse of humanity's salvation, charged with providing a magical 'fix' for planetary ecological dilemmas, the focus of our volume is on the importance of cultural reflection for bringing matters of local and global import to light. Moving from the abstractions of eco-critical utopianisms to the concrete identity of the land in the poetry of John Clare, from British Petroleum's attempts to re-brand climate change to examples of eco-architecture, and much more besides, these essays exemplify ways in which eco-political thought and practice might now be theorized. The collection is framed by a substantial editors' introduction which offers but one contextualization of the ideas and critical trajectories that follow. "Culture, Environment and Ecopolitics" will allow readers to discover original intersections and argumentative cross-references across contested terrains in a world increasingly troubled by ecological crises.
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• Introduction
• Section 1: Ecocritique and Anecdote
• Section 2: Ecocritique, Popular Cinema, and the Global Financial Crisis 2.1 Rango and appearance 2.2 A Glitch in time: Deja Vu 2.3 Becoming human: Iron Man 2 2.4 Otherwise than human: Oblivion 2.5 The Non-identical world: Source Code 2.6 Those Dying Generations: No Country for Old Men 2.7 Hope in Children of Men and Serenity 2.8 Posthumous Media: The Voyager Animations
• Section 3: Ecocritique, Anecdote, and the Mass Image
• Part 1: Making the Mass Image
• Part 2: Remaking the Mass Image References Index.
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Ecocritique is a practice of radical questioning, as essential to the critical armoury as feminism and postcolonialism have become. Like them, it extends beyond judgements about texts with clear ecological themes, demonstrating the significance of ecocriticism for any advanced understanding of cultural forms. Anecdotal method is ecocritical because it focuses on encounters, concentrated moments of crisis when social ordering and ecological forces clash. The anecdote's power to produce events, meanings and history forms a methodological entry to aesthetic politics. Anecdotal Evidence provides an outline of the need for and principles of anecdotal method; a case study of eco-critical themes in Hollywood films shaped by the Global Financial Crisis; and a confrontation with mass image databases of social and streaming media that due to their scale and organisation appear at first immune to anecdotal method. Only because the environment has a history is it possible to intervene environmentally. Because we continually misrecognise the historical production of environments, the first task of ecocritique is to bring our formative concept of ecology into crisis. Its final task will be to achieve the good life for everything connected by the historical implication of humans in ecology, and ecology in humans. No politics can be undertaken in our times except through media: ecocritical humanities have a key role in rethinking ecopolitics in the 21st century.
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• Introduction Part I: Towards an ecocritical art history
• 1 The evolution of ecocritical art history
• 2 Art history in an expanded field: techniques, materials, land, energy, environments
• 3 Ecologies of feminism and the queer Part II: The politics of nonhierarchy: anarchism, social ecology and art
• 4 Anarchist and social ecological roots
• 5 Art history and anarchism
• 6 Ecologies: political, cultural, green Part III: Matter, ground and flesh
• 7 New materialism and the wisdom of the rocks
• 8 Art history as a posthumanities practice
• 9 Animalities and implantations Conclusion: Paying attention: environmental justice and ecocritical art history Bibliography Index
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In the popular imagination, art history remains steeped in outmoded notions of tradition, material value and elitism. How can we awaken, define and orientate an ecological sensibility within the history of art? Building on the latest work in the discipline, this book provides the blueprint for an 'ecocritical art history', one that is prepared to meet the challenges of the Anthropocene, climate change and global warming. Without ignoring its own histories, the book looks beyond - at politics, posthumanism, new materialism, feminism, queer theory and critical animal studies - invigorating the art-historical practices of the future. -- .
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• Acknowledgments Introduction: Trans-National Ecopoetics Isabel Sobral Campos
• Section 1 - An Ecopoetics of Resistance: Transnational Voices of Dissent Chapter One - "No More Boomerang:" Environment and Technology in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Poetry John Charles Ryan Chapter Two - "To a Nation Out of its Mind": Joy Harjo's Post-Pastoral Sarah Giragosian Chapter Three - Native Chamorro Eco-Poetry in the Work of Cecilia C. T. Perez Craig Santos Perez Chapter Four - "Neither Homeland Nor Exile are Words": "Situated Knowledge" in the Works of Palestinian and Native American Writers Benay Blend Chapter Five - Nature as a Counter-Historical Narrative in Holocaust Poetry (Milosz, Celan, and Pagis) Aleksandra Ubertowska, Translated by Pawel Wojtas
• Section 2 - An Ecopoetics of the Nonhuman: Animal Encounters Chapter Six - Noticing with Bishop: Curiosity and "The Moose" Cheryl Alison Chapter Seven - Nonhuman Voices in Les Murray's Translations from the Natural World Sarah Bouttier
• Section 3 - An Ecopoetics of Matter: New Materialist Readings Chapter Eight - Hybrid Alliterative Green: Ecopoetics in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Randy P. Schiff Chapter Nine - Toward a Material Jeffers: Mysticism and the New Materialism David Tagnani Chapter Ten - The Ecology of Metaphor: Will Alexander's Exobiology as Goddess Isabel Sobral Campos Chapter Eleven - Towards an Improper Poetics Heather H. Yeung About the Contributors.
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Ecopoetics and the Global Landscape: Critical Essays surveys ecopoetry from a global perspective across different historical epochs. Its comparative approach foregrounds the importance of ecopoetics within the context of distinct national literatures and cultures to reveal the ubiquitous intersection of poetry with ecocriticism. The collection analyzes environmental problems resulting from the legacies of colonialism and focuses on issues of environmental justice and indigenous issues as well as on the intersection of genocide studies and environmentalism. It also examines ecologically-informed modes of relating to the world. In particular, it engages with interactions between the human and nonhuman as well as mind and matter. Finally, it broadens the scope of place to include both the absent land of exiled peoples, and the urban, built environment.
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• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Toward an Affective Ecocriticism: Placing Feeling in the Anthropocene
• Kyle Bladow and Jennifer Ladino
• Part 1. Theoretical Foundations
• 1. "what do we do but keep breathing as best we can this / minute atmosphere": Juliana Spahr and Anthropocene Anxiety
• Nicole M. Merola
• 2. From Nostalgic Longing to Solastalgic Distress: A Cognitive Approach to Love in the Anthropocene
• Alexa Weik von Mossner
• 3. A New Gentleness: Affective Ficto-Regionality
• Neil Campbell
• Part 2. Affective Attachments: Land, Bodies, Justice
• 4. Feeling the Fires of Climate Change: Land Affect in Canada's Tar Sands
• Jobb Arnold
• 5. Wendell Berry and the Affective Turn
• William Major
• 6. A Hunger for Words: Food Affects and Embodied Ideology
• Tom Hertweck
• 7. Uncanny Homesickness and War: Loss of Affect, Loss of Place, and Reworlding in Redeployment
• Ryan Hediger
• Part 3. Animality: Feeling Species and Boundaries
• 8. Desiring Species with Darwin and Freud
• Robert Azzarello
• 9. Tragedy, Ecophobia, and Animality in the Anthropocene
• Brian Deyo
• 10. Futurity without Optimism: Detaching from Anthropocentrism and Grieving Our Fathers in Beasts of the Southern Wild
• Allyse Knox-Russell
• Part 4. Environmentalist Killjoys: Politics and Pedagogy
• 11. The Queerness of Environmental Affect
• Nicole Seymour
• 12. Feeling Let Down: Affect, Environmentalism, and the Power of Negative Thinking
• Lisa Ottum
• 13. Feeling Depleted: Ecocinema and the Atmospherics of Affect
• Graig Uhlin
• 14. Coming of Age at the End of the World: The Affective Arc of Undergraduate Environmental Studies Curricula
• Sarah Jaquette Ray List of Contributors
• Index
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Scholars of ecocriticism have long tried to articulate emotional relationships to environments. Only recently, however, have they begun to draw on the complex interdisciplinary body of research known as affect theory. Affective Ecocriticism takes as its premise that ecocritical scholarship has much to gain from the rich work on affect and emotion happening within social and cultural theory, geography, psychology, philosophy, queer theory, feminist theory, narratology, and neuroscience, among others. This vibrant and important volume imagines a more affective-and consequently more effective-ecocriticism, as well as a more environmentally attuned affect studies. These interdisciplinary essays model a range of approaches to emotion and affect in considering a variety of primary texts, including short story collections, films, poetry, curricular programs, and contentious geopolitical locales such as Canada's Tar Sands. Several chapters deal skeptically with familiar environmentalist affects like love, hope, resilience, and optimism; others consider what are often understood as negative emotions, such as anxiety, disappointment, and homesickness-all with an eye toward reinvigorating or reconsidering their utility for the environmental humanities and environmentalism. Affective Ecocriticism offers an accessible approach to this theoretical intersection that will speak to readers across multiple disciplinary and geographic locations. .
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• Foreword by Ursula Heise Acknowledgements Introduction by Yuki Masami
• Chapter 1: Exploring Ecocritical Perspectives by Juxtaposing The Tale of Genji's "Suma" chapter with Folktales by Marjorie Rhine
• Chapter 2: Taoka Reiun and Environmental Thought in the Early 1900s by Ronald Loftus by
• Chapter 3: Kyoko Matsunaga Radioactive Discourse and Atomic Bomb Texts: Ota Yoko, Sata Ineko, and by Hayashi Kyoko
• Chapter 4: Abe Kobo in Ecosophy by Toshiya Ueno
• Chapter 5: Literary ground opened in fissures: The Great East Japan Earthquake and Oe Kenzaburo's In Late Style by Haga Koichi
• Chapter 6: Oe and the Uses of Ecocritical Affect: Suspicion, Shame and Care after 3.11 by Margherita Long
• Chapter 7: Nature Strikes Back: Human Interaction with Natural Forces in Literary Representations of Disaster by Alex Bates
• Chapter 8: Horses and Ferns: Kaneko Mitsuharu and Furukawa Hideo by Doug Slaymaker
• Chapter 9: Invisible Waves: On Some Japanese Artists After March 11, 2011 by Keijiro Suga
• Chapter 10: From "Suffering" to "Compassion": The World of Ishimure Michiko's Works by Shuji Takazawa
• Chapter 11: Representation of Nomads in the Works of Ishimure Michiko by Daisuke Higuchi
• Chapter 12: On the Ideological Manipulation of Nature in Japanese Popular Culture: Miyazaki, Hyakuta, Ishimure by Hisaaki Wake
• Chapter 13: A Chaosmos of Condivision: Radiation Aesthetics in the TV Anime Series Coppelion (2013) by Livia Monnet
• Chapter 14: Arboreal Unicorns and Other Megaflora: On Kurosawa Kiyoshi's film Charisma by Christine Marran About the Contributors Index.
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What can ecocriticism do when engaging with Japanese literature and culture? This edited volume Ecocriticism in Japan attempts to answer this question. The contributors place themselves inside the domestic fields of production of works of art and express their concerns and ideas for the English-speaking spheres of the world. Taking up subjects ranging from the eleventh-century novel The Tale of Genji, an early twentieth-century writer Taoka Reiun, the post-WWII atomic bombing literature by women, the internationally-renowned Abe Kobo, the Nobel laureate Oe Kenzaburo, the world-widely popular writer Murakami Haruki, the Minamata writer Ishimure Michiko, and the anime artist Miyazaki Hayao to the recent TV anime Coppelion, a production that foresaw a devastating nuclear disaster after the Great East Japan Earthquake, this volume extricates and discusses innate, complex values of Japanese people and culture in terms of nature and environment.
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• Introduction - Theoretical, Methodological, and Interdisciplinary Reflections Chapter One - Water, Literature, Symbolism, and Epistemology in the Pre-Modern Age: A Pan-European Perspective Chapter Two - Water and Voyages in the Goliardic Epic Poem of Herzog Ernst: Transformation and Maturation through Travel into the Mysterious Orient Chapter Three - The Experience with Water in The Voyage of St. Brendan: Spiritual Epistemology in the Western Seas Chapter Four - Water Worlds in the Lais by Marie de France: The Search for Happiness in a Fluid World Chapter Five - Hartmann von Aue's Gregorius: The Religious Transformation Through Water Chapter Six - Water Symbolism in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival: The Material and the Spiritual Dimension of Water in a Middle High German Grail Romance Chapter Seven -Mechthild of Magdeburg's Mystical The Flowing Light of the Divinity: Spirituality, Liquidity, and Epistemology Chapter Eight - Boccaccio's Decameron (ca. 1351): Narrative Explorations of Tears, Water in Fountains, Wells, and in the Mediterranean Chapter Nine - Water as Markers of Identity, Space, and Time in the Icelandic Saga Njal's Saga: Travel, War, and Water in the World of Old Norse Literature Chapter Ten - Water Creatures, Wells, the Other Life, Hybridity, and the Aquatic: The Myth of Melusine in the Verse Romance by Jean d'Arras Chapter Eleven - Marguerite de Navarre's Heptameron and other Problems with Water: Flooding, Voyaging, Sexual Violence, and Refuge Epilogue.
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Ecocritical thinking has sensitized us more than ever before to the tremendous importance of water for human life, as it is richly reflected in the world of literature. The great relevance of water also in the Middle Ages might come as a surprise for many readers, but the evidence assembled here confirms that also medieval poets were keenly aware of the importance of water to sustain all life, to provide understanding of life's secrets, to mirror love, and to connect the individual with God. In eleven chapters major medieval European authors and their works are discussed here, taking us from the world of Old Norse to Irish and Latin literature, to German, French, English, and Italian romances and other narratives.
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• .-1 The Dark Pastoral: A Trope for the Anthropocene.-2 Goethe's Faust and the Ecolinguistics of .-3 Adalbert Stifter's Alternative Anthropocene: Reimagining Social Nature in Brigitta and Abdias.-4 The Senses of Slovenia: Peter Handke, Stanley Cavell, and the Environmental Ethics of Repetition.-5 "Mines aren't really like that": German Romantic Undergrounds Revisited.-6 (Bad) Air and (Faulty) Inspiration: Elemental and Environmental Influences on Fontane.-7 Hunger Artists and other Performers: Food and Consumption as Poetic Practice.-8 Speaking Stones: Material Agency and Interaction in Hans-Christian Enzensberger's Geschichte der Natur.-9 When Nature Strikes Back - The Inconvenient Apocalypse in Franz Hohler's Der Neue Berg.-10 National Invective and Environmental Exploitation in Thomas Bernhard's Frost.-11 German Film Ventures into the Amazon: From Fitzcarraldo to Fuck for Forest.-12 Assessing How We Assess Risk: Kathrin Roggla's Documentary Film The Mobile Future.- Writing After Nature: A Sebaldian Ecopoetics.-14 Telling the Story of Climate Change: The German Novel in the Anthropocene.-15 The Anthropocene in Contemporary German Ecothrillers.
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This book offers essays on both canonical and non-canonical German-language texts and films, advancing ecocritical models for German Studies, and introducing environmental issues in German literature and film to a broader audience. This volume contextualizes the broad-ranging topics and authors in terms of the Anthropocene, beginning with Goethe and the Romantics and extending into twenty-first-century literature and film. Addressing the growing need for environmental awareness in an international humanities curriculum, this book complements ecocritical analyses emerging from North American and British studies with a specifically German Studies perspective, opening the door to a transnational understanding of how the environment plays an integral role in cultural, political, and economic issues.
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• 0. Introduction ; Part I. Ecocritical Theories of Culture and Literature ;
• 1. The Lightest Burden: The Aesthetic Abductions of Biosemiotics ;
• 2. Earth's Poesy: Romantic Poetics, Natural Philosophy, and Biosemiotics ;
• 3. Merleau-Ponty and the Eco-Literary Imaginary.

• 4. Ecology and Immanence
• 5. Paradox as Bedrock: Social Systems Theory and the Ungrounding of Literary Environmentalism in Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire ;
• 6. Aesthetics of Nature
• A Philosophical Perspective ;
• 7. Cultural Ecology of Literature
• Literature as Cultural Ecology.

• 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 ;
• 9. Political Ecology: Nature, Democracy, and American Literary Culture.

• 10. Ecocriticism and Postcolonial Studies
• 11. Ecofeminisms, the Toxic Body, and Linda Hogan's Power ;
• 12. Ecocriticism, Place Studies, and Colm Tóibín's "A Long Winter": A Biocultural Perspective ;
• 13. Animal Studies: Kafka's Animal Stories.

• 14. From Material to Posthuman Ecocriticism: Hybridity, Stories, Natures
• 15. Conciliation and Consilience: Climate Change in Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behaviour ; Part III. Between the Local and the Global: Cultural Diversity vs. Eco-Cosmopolitanism.

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 transnational paradigm that promises to return a new sense of relevance to research and teaching in the humanities. A distinctive feature of the present handbook in comparison with other survey volumes is the combination of ecocriticism with cultural ecology, reflecting an emphasis on the cultural transformation of ecological processes and on the crucial role of literature, art, and other forms of cultural creativity for the evolution of societies towards sustainable futures. In state-of-the-art contributions by leading international scholars in the field, this handbook maps some of the most important developments in contemporary ecocritical thought. It introduces key theoretical concepts, issues, and directions of ecocriticism and cultural ecology and demonstrates their relevance for the analysis of texts and other cultural phenomena.
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• Contents Abbreviations Preface
• Part 1: Foundations
• Prelude: The Coat of a Horse
• 1 Zoopoetics: An Introduction
• Interlude: Mimic Octopi
• 2 Walt Whitman & the Origin of Poetry
• Interlude: Cats
• 3 "Whose poem is this?": E. E. Cummings' Zoopoetics
• Part 2: Implications
• Interlude: Beluga Whales
• 4 "learning my steps": Zoopoetics and Mass
• Extinction in W. S. Merwin's Poetry
• Interlude: Elephants
• 5 The Zoopoetics of a Multispecies Polis: Brenda
• Hillman's Practical Water
• Postlude: Owls Bibliography Index About the Author.
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Zoopoetics assumes Aristotle was right. The general origin of poetry resides, in part, in the instinct to imitate. But it is an innovative imitation. An exploration of the oeuvres of Walt Whitman, E. E. Cummings, W. S. Merwin, and Brenda Hillman reveals the many places where an imitation of another species' poiesis (Greek, makings) contributes to breakthroughs in poetic form. However, humans are not the only imitators in the animal kingdom. Other species, too, achieve breakthroughs in their makings through an attentiveness to the ways-of-being of other animals. For this reason, mimic octopi, elephants, beluga whales, and many other species join the exploration of what zoopoetics encompasses. Zoopoetics provides further traction for people interested in the possibilities when and where species meet. Gestures are paramount to zoopoetics. Through the interplay of gestures, the human/animal/textual spheres merge making it possible to recognize how actual, biological animals impact the material makings of poetry. Moreover, as many species are makers, zoopoetics expands the poetic tradition to include nonhuman poiesis.
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• Ecological predicament and the future of civilization / S.N. Pande
• Landscape control : the use of nature as a vehicle for conveying ideology / Rafael R. Pleguezuelos
• Eco-eco : constructing a blue ecocriticism with Umberto Eco's The island of the day before / Mark Bousquet
• Nature, body and society : the fluidity/cyborgization in Karen Tei Yamashita, Margaret Atwood and Bruce Sterling / Yalan Chang
• Eco-poetry : a unique unification / Rakesh Saraswat
• Poem as work place : Gary Snyder's ecological poetics / Neerja Arun
• The flora and fauna of negritude poetry : an ecocritical re-reading / Kwaku Asante-Darko
• "We are hopeful" : Tanure Ojaide and the poet as (eco)warrior / J. Shantz.

This title shows how one writer balances work and activism.Scott Slovic has spent his life as a teacher, writer, environmental activist, and leader in the field of ecocritical literary studies. In ""Going Away to Think"", he reflects on the twin motivations of his life - the commitment to do some good in the world and the impulse to enjoy life and participate fully in its most intense moments - and examines the tension created by his efforts to balance these two poles of his responsibility.The essays in ""Going Away to Think"" cover a wide range of topics, often taking a personal observation or experience as the launching point for a broader examination of a profound topic: from the desperate leaps of tiny fish fleeing a boat in a Mexican estuary to a discussion of the meaning of risk and insecurity in American life; from an encounter with a Japanese organic farmer to a consideration of the role of ecocritics in helping us understand the relationship between nature and culture; from the way we connect to a temporary address to the process of becoming an authentic inhabitant of a specific place. Slovic's scope is broad, and his voice is both intimate and filled with the wisdom of a lifetime of scholarship and close observation.""Going Away to Think"" reveals the complex inner life of one of this generation's most important environmental critics and literary activists. For anyone seeking sanity and purpose in an increasingly complicated and ambiguous world, Slovic offers up his own experiences of balancing commitment with the irresistible, and sometimes necessary, need to retreat and reflect.
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A collection of thirteen original essays by leaders in the emerging field of ecocriticism. The Greening of Literary Scholarship is devoted to exploring new and previously neglected literatures, theories, and methods in environmental-literary scholarship. Each essay in this impressive collection challenges the notion that the study of environmental literature is separate from traditional concerns of criticism, and each applies ecocritical scholarship to literature not commonly explored in this context. New historicism, postcolonialism, deconstructionism, and feminist and Marxist theories are all utilized to evaluate and gain new insights into environmental literature; at the same time, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Upton Sinclair, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Susan Howe are studied from an ecocritical perspective. At its core, The Greening of Literary Scholarship offers a practical demonstration of how articulating traditional and environmental modes of literary scholarship can enrich the interpretation of literary texts and, most important, revitalize the larger fields of environmental and literary scholarship.
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• 1. Bodies Interrupted
• 2. Laboring Bodies
• 3. Embodied Consumption
• 4. Toxic and Illegible Bodies
• 5. Bodies on the Border
• 6. Environmental Interplay.
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Environmental Justice in Contemporary US Narratives examines post-1929 US artistic interrogations of environmental disruption. Tracing themes of pollution, marine life, and agricultural production in the work of a number of historically significant writers including John Steinbeck, Ruth Ozeki, and Cherrie Moraga, this book outlines a series of incisive dialogues on transnational flows of capital and environmental justice. Texts ranging from The Grapes of Wrath (1939) to Body Toxic (2001) represent the body as vulnerable to a host of environmental risks. They identify "natural disasters" not just as environmental hazards and catastrophes, but also as events intertwined with socioeconomic issues. With careful textual analysis, Athanassakis shows how twentieth- and twenty-first-century US writers have sought to rethink traditional understandings of how the human being relates to ecological phenomena. Their work, and this study, offer new modes of creative engagement with environmental degradation - engagement that is proactive, ambivalent, and even playful. This book contributes to vital discussions about the importance of literature for social justice movements, food studies, ecocriticism, and the environmental humanities. The core argument of the book is that artistically imaginative narratives of environmental disturbance can help humans contend with ostensibly uncontrollable, drastic planetary changes.
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• Preface : Writing into the whirlwind / Stephen Trimble
• "This ius where we began" / Luci Tapahonso
• Introduction : Listening to the Old People. the land and the long future / Charles Kinson
• Right of way / Simon Oritz
• The eyes of the young / Brooke Larsen
• Unthinkable / Sam Rushforth
• The man with the heart of stone / Kevin Jones
• The land of no use / Jana Richman
• The freedom of restraint / David Gessner
• The only way forward / Karen Shepherd
• It's time to heal Bear Ears / Regina Lopez-Whiteskunk
• On compromised ground/ Lauret Savoy
• Stone that leaps / Christopher Cokinos
• What shall we give the children? / Kathleen Dean Moore
• Memory / Jen Jackson Quintano
• A place for meditation / Jim Enote
• Shash Jaa' follows wherever I go / Alastair Bitsoi
• The wildness in nature binds us to the past / Juan Palma
• The view from the mesa / Shonto Begay
• The ur-bear / Marry Ellen Hannibal
• Bear's Ears / Mary Sojourner
• Seeing red / Amy Irvine
• The grace of the wild / Thomas Lowe Fleischner
• Prelude / David Lee
• Faith and the land / George Handley
• Lease UTU914B1 / Brooke Williams
• We [heart] wilderness / Anne Terashima
• It is the land that tells the story / Jacqueline Keeler
• What the tortoise taught me / Michelle Nijhuis
• Whole and holy / Chip Ward
• When the desert morning rises / Ann Whittacker
• Up between the Bears Ears / Gary Paul Nabhan
• A gesture of peace / Terry Tempest Williams
• It's time to act / Bruce Babbitt
• Walking to water / Mark Udall
• We came out dancing together / Stephen Trimble
• Stand up for the redrock
• Contributors
• Permissions & citations
• Acknowledgments
• Red rock history
• Letter to the Utah Congressional Delegation from the Bears Ears Inter-tribal Coalition, December 31, 2015 --Letter of invitation sent to contributors, April 8, 2016
• Letter sent to Congress with Chapbook, July 5, 2016
• Introduction to the Proclamation by Charles Wilkinson
• Proclamation designating Bears Ears National Monument, December 28, 2016
• Map of Bears Ears National Monument.

The Green Ghost, by Chad Weidner, uncovers the ecological context of literary texts by William Burroughs. Until now, much scholarly work on Burroughs has focused on the sensational aspects of his life and innovative writing. By rereading canonical and ignored texts while pushing the boundaries of ecocritical theory and practice, Weidner provides a fresh perspective on Burroughs and suggests new theoretical and methodological approaches to understanding the work of other Beat writers.Using an ecocritical lens, Weidner explores the toxicity in Naked Lunch, while at the same time teasing out latent ecological questions embedded in Burroughs's later works. The author's analysis of unknown and miniature "cut-ups, " texts that have been disassembled and rearranged to create new texts, provides a new understanding of these cryptic forms. Weidner also examines in detail books by Burroughs that have been virtually ignored by critics, exposing the deep ecology of the Beat writer's vision. In calling attention to Burroughs's narrative strategies that link him to an environmental political position, The Green Ghost reveals the work of the Beat writer as a ripe source for ecocritical dialogue.
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• Contents: Foreword, Carla Freccero-- Introduction, Jennifer Munroe, Lynne Bruckner, and Edward J. Geisweidt.
• Section I Theoretical Approaches: Tell inconvenient truths, but tell them slant, Robert N. Watson-- Reading the present in our environmental past, Ken Hiltner-- Is it really ecocritical if it isn't feminist?: the dangers of 'speaking for' in ecological studies and Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, Jennifer Munroe.
• Section II Reading Ecologically: Texts and Methodologies: Roses in winter: recipe ecologies and Shakespeare's Sonnets, Rebecca Laroche-- Poetic language, practical handbooks, and the 'vertues' of plants, Jessica Rosenberg-- The beasts of Belmont and Venice, Keith M. Botelho-- Shakespeare and slime: notes on the Anthropocene, Dan Brayton-- Queerly green: from meaty to meatless days and nights in Timon of Athens, Simon C. Estok-- 'Bare and desolate now': cultural ecology and 'The Description of Cookham', Louise Noble-- The ecology of eating in Jonson's 'To Penshurst', Amy Tigner-- The bastard bomb: illegitimacy and population in Thomas Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, Edward J. Geisweidt-- Ecocritical Milton, Leah S. Marcus.
• Section III Approaches to Teaching Ecologically: Texts and Methodologies: Spenser's moral economy as political ecology: teaching the bower of bliss, Hillary Eklund-- Reprocentric ecologies: pedagogy, husbandry and A Midsummer Night's Dream, Lynne Bruckner-- Teaching Timon of Walden, Todd A. Borlik-- 'Th'Earth's Great Altar': teaching Milton's spiritual ecology, Mary (Mimi) C. Fenton-- Marvell's 'Upon Appleton House' and tree-felling: a political woodpecker, Jeffrey Theis. Afterword: post-script, Karen Raber-- Bibliography-- Index.
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Ecocriticism has steadily gained footing within the larger arena of early modern scholarship, and with the publication of well over a dozen monographs, essay collections, and special journal issues, literary studies looks increasingly 'green'; yet the field lacks a straightforward, easy-to-use guide to do with reading and teaching early modern texts ecocritically. Accessible yet comprehensive, the cutting-edge collection Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts fills this gap. Organized around the notion of contact zones (or points of intersection, that have often been constructed asymmetrically-especially with regard to the human-nonhuman dichotomy), the volume reassesses current trends in ecocriticism and the Renaissance; introduces analyses of neglected texts and authors; brings ecocriticism into conversation with cognate fields and approaches (e.g., queer theory, feminism, post-coloniality, food studies); and offers a significant section on pedagogy, ecocriticism and early modern literature. Engaging points of tension and central interest in the field, the collection is largely situated in the 'and/or' that resides between presentism-historicism, materiality-literary, somatic-semiotic, nature-culture, and, most importantly, human-nonhuman. Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts balances coverage and methodology; its primary goal is to provide useful, yet nuanced discussions of ecological approaches to reading and teaching a range of representative early modern texts. As a whole, the volume includes a diverse selection of chapters that engage the complex issues that arise when reading and teaching early modern texts from a green perspective.
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