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Ecocriticism and Geocriticism

Robert T. Tally Jr.,Christine M. Battista,Saville
Ecocriticism and Geocriticism Book PDF

Author : Robert T. Tally Jr.,Christine M. Battista,Saville
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137542625

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Ecocriticism and Geocriticism by Robert T. Tally Jr.,Christine M. Battista,Saville Pdf

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.

Geocriticism

B. Westphal
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Author : B. Westphal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230119161

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Geocriticism by B. Westphal Pdf

Geocriticism provides a theoretical foundation and a critical exploration of geocriticism, an interdisciplinary approach to understanding literature in relation to space and place. Drawing on diverse thinkers, Westphal argues that a geocritical approach enables novel ways of seeing literary texts and of conducting literary studies.

Spatial Literary Studies

Robert T. Tally Jr.
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Author : Robert T. Tally Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000208047

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Spatial Literary Studies by Robert T. Tally Jr. Pdf

Following the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences, Spatial Literary Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Space, Geography, and the Imagination offers a wide range of essays that reframe or transform contemporary criticism by focusing attention, in various ways, on the dynamic relations among space, place, and literature. These essays reflect upon the representation of space and place, whether in the real world, in imaginary universes, or in those hybrid zones where fiction meets reality. Working within or alongside related approaches, such as geocriticism, literary geography, and the spatial humanities, these essays examine the relationship between literary spatiality and different genres or media, such as film or television. The contributors to Spatial Literary Studies draw upon diverse critical and theoretical traditions in disclosing, analyzing, and exploring the significance of space, place, and mapping in literature and in the world, thus making new textual geographies and literary cartographies possible.

Ecospatiality

Lowell Wyse
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Author : Lowell Wyse
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781609387747

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Ecospatiality by Lowell Wyse Pdf

"John Steinbeck's Salinas Valley. Richard Wright's Chicago. Leslie Marmon Silko's New Mexico. Readers often have strong connections with literary places like these. And some works of literature can even change our understanding of the world we live in. But can place also change our view of literature? Site-Reading advances a place-based approach to literature, reading classic texts through the twin lenses of geographical awareness and environmental thought. This book highlights recent developments in ecocriticism and geocriticism to argue for a theory of "ecospatiality" with nature, space, and story as the three elements of place. Site-Reading reconsiders well-known works of twentieth-century American prose and shows how social and environmental issues always overlap. Travel writer William Least Heat-Moon, whose work embodies the ecospatial perspective, portrays his experiences with place on the local, regional, and continental scales. Classic novels by Silko, Willa Cather, and Ana Castillo-usually discussed in isolation-converge in a way that maps diverse cultural perspectives and environmental threats onto the shared geography of Central New Mexico. A reading of Steinbeck's Salinas Valley Watershed texts investigates the impacts of literary tourism in "Steinbeck Country" before drilling down into Steinbeck's portrayals of spatial development and environmental history. And an innovative analysis of Native Son shows how Richard Wright uses cartographic details to decry the spatial/racial politics of South Side Chicago in the 1930s. In this book, Lowell Wyse shows how place provides the grounds for both human experience and critical practice. By bringing together concepts like literary cartography, deep mapping, and bioregionalism in an "ecospatial" approach, Site-Reading not only maps new terrain between ecocriticism and geocriticism, but also shows why place matters-in the world and in the text"--

Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic

Julius Greve,Florian Zappe
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Author : Julius Greve,Florian Zappe
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783030281168

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Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic by Julius Greve,Florian Zappe Pdf

This collection of essays discusses genre fiction and film within the discursive framework of the environmental humanities and analyses the convergent themes of spatiality, climate change, and related anxieties concerning the future of human affairs, as crucial for any understanding of current forms of “weird” and “fantastic” literature and culture. Given their focus on the culturally marginal, unknown, and “other,” these genres figure as diagnostic modes of storytelling, outlining the latent anxieties and social dynamics that define a culture’s “structure of feeling” at a given historical moment. The contributions in this volume map the long and continuous tradition of weird and fantastic fiction as a seismograph for eco-geographical turmoil from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, offering innovative and insightful ecocritical readings of H. P. Lovecraft, Harriet Prescott Spofford, China Miéville, N. K. Jemisin, Thomas Ligotti, and Jeff VanderMeer, among others.

Geocritical Explorations

Robert T. Tally Jr.
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Author : Robert T. Tally Jr.
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230337930

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Geocritical Explorations by Robert T. Tally Jr. Pdf

In recent years the spatial turn in literary and cultural studies has opened up new ways of looking at the interactions among writers, readers, texts, and places. Geocriticism offers a timely new approach, and this book presents an array of concrete examples or readings, which also reveal the broad range of geocritical practices.

Walden's Shore

Robert M. Thorson
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Author : Robert M. Thorson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674728400

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Walden's Shore by Robert M. Thorson Pdf

Walden's Shore explores Thoreau's understanding of the "living rock" on which life's complexity depends--not as metaphor but as physical science. Robert Thorson's subject is Thoreau the rock and mineral collector, interpreter of landscapes, and field scientist whose compass and measuring stick were as important to him as his plant press.

Africa's Narrative Geographies

D. Crowley
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Author : D. Crowley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137518996

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Africa's Narrative Geographies by D. Crowley Pdf

Building on the emerging field of geocriticism, this book explores Africa's complex, dynamic literary landscapes, proffering new methods for understanding the geographies of African literature. Using both cultural geography and political ecology, Crowley offers fresh insights into key authors' imagined geographies of resistance and alterity.

Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality

Kristina Malmio,Kaisa Kurikka
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Author : Kristina Malmio,Kaisa Kurikka
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030233532

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Contemporary Nordic Literature and Spatiality by Kristina Malmio,Kaisa Kurikka Pdf

This open access collection offers a detailed mapping of recent Nordic literature and its different genres (fiction, poetry, and children’s literature) through the perspective of spatiality. Concentrating on contemporary Nordic literature, the book presents a distinctive view on the spatial turn and widens the understanding of Nordic literature outside of canonized authors. Examining literatures by Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish authors, the chapters investigate a recurrent theme of social criticism and analyze this criticism against the welfare state and power hierarchies in spatial terms. The chapters explore various narrative worlds and spaces—from the urban to parks and forests, from textual spaces to spatial thematics, studying these spatial features in relation to the problems of late modernity.

Contemporary Ecocritical Methods

Camilla Brudin Borg,Rikard Wingård,Jørgen Bruhn
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Author : Camilla Brudin Borg,Rikard Wingård,Jørgen Bruhn
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781666937893

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Contemporary Ecocritical Methods by Camilla Brudin Borg,Rikard Wingård,Jørgen Bruhn Pdf

Ecocriticism has grown into one of the most innovative and urgent fields of the humanities, and many useful ecocritical approaches for addressing our environmental crisis have been developed, discussed, and reconsidered during the last decade. From various perspectives, ecocriticism both adopts and criticizes traditional analytical and theoretical models, resulting in an impressive methodological diversity, pushing the boundaries of the humanities. Contemporary Ecocritical Methods exemplifies this methodological variety and serves as a practical entry into the field. Fourteen chapters, written by scholars from various ecocritical sub-fields of environmental humanities, introduce a rich set of perspectives and their analytical tools.

The Truth of Ecology

Dana Phillips
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Author : Dana Phillips
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0195137698

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The Truth of Ecology by Dana Phillips Pdf

A wide-ranging appraisal of environmental thought. It explores such topics as the history of ecology, radical science studies and ecology, the need for greater theoretical sophistication in ecocriticism, the dubious legacy of Thoreau, and the contradictions of contemporary nature writing.

The Anthropocene Lyric

Tom Bristow
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Author : Tom Bristow
Publisher : Springer
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137364753

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The Anthropocene Lyric by Tom Bristow Pdf

This book takes the work of three contemporary poets John Burnside, John Kinsella and Alice Oswald to reveal how an environmental poetics of place is of significant relevance for the Anthropocene: a geological marker asking us to think radically of the human as one part of the more-than-human world.

Melville, Mapping and Globalization

Robert T. Tally Jr.
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Author : Robert T. Tally Jr.
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441116284

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Melville, Mapping and Globalization by Robert T. Tally Jr. Pdf

In Melville, Mapping and Globalization, Robert Tally argues that Melville does not belong in the tradition of the American Renaissance, but rather creates a baroque literary cartography, artistically engaging with spaces beyond the national model. At a time of intense national consolidation and cultural centralization, Melville discovered the postnational forces of an emerging world system, a system that has become our own in the era of globalization. Drawing on the work of a range of literary and social critics (including Deleuze, Foucault, Jameson, and Moretti), Tally argues that Melville's distinct literary form enabled his critique of the dominant national narrative of his own time and proleptically undermined the national literary tradition of American Studies a century later. Melville's hypercanonical status in the United States makes his work all the more crucial for understanding the role of literature in a post-American epoch. Offering bold new interpretations and theoretical juxtapositions, Tally presents a postnational Melville, well suited to establishing new approaches to American and world literature in the twenty-first century.

Poe and the Subversion of American Literature

Robert T. Tally Jr.
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Author : Robert T. Tally Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781623569709

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Poe and the Subversion of American Literature by Robert T. Tally Jr. Pdf

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014 In Poe and the Subversion of American Literature, Robert T. Tally Jr. argues that Edgar Allan Poe is best understood, not merely as a talented artist or canny magazinist, but primarily as a practical joker who employs satire and fantasy to poke fun at an emergent nationalist discourse circulating in the United States. Poe's satirical and fantastic mode, on display even in his apparently serious short stories and literary criticism, undermines the earnest attempts to establish a distinctively national literature in the nineteenth century. In retrospect, Poe's work also subtly subverts the tenets of an institutionalized American Studies in the twentieth century. Tally interprets Poe's life and works in light of his own social milieu and in relation to the disciplinary field of American literary studies, finding Poe to be neither the poète maudit of popular mythology nor the representative American writer revealed by recent scholarship. Rather, Poe is an untimely figure whose work ultimately makes a mockery of those who would seek to contain it. Drawing upon Gilles Deleuze's distinction between nomad thought and state philosophy, Tally argues that Poe's varied literary and critical writings represent an alternative to American literature. Through his satirical critique of U.S. national culture and his otherworldly projection of a postnational space of the imagination, Poe establishes a subterranean, nomadic, and altogether worldly literary practice.

Geo-Spatiality in Asian and Oceanic Literature and Culture

Shiuhhuah Serena Chou,Soyoung Kim,Rob Sean Wilson
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Author : Shiuhhuah Serena Chou,Soyoung Kim,Rob Sean Wilson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031040474

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Geo-Spatiality in Asian and Oceanic Literature and Culture by Shiuhhuah Serena Chou,Soyoung Kim,Rob Sean Wilson Pdf

This collection opens the geospatiality of “Asia” into an environmental framework called "Oceania" and pushes this complex regional multiplicity towards modes of trans-local solidarity, planetary consciousness, multi-sited decentering, and world belonging. At the transdisciplinary core of this “worlding” process lies the multiple spatial and temporal dynamics of an environmental eco-poetics, articulated via thinking and creating both with and beyond the Pacific and Asia imaginary.