Ecocriticism And The Idea Of Culture

Author : Helena Feder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317146414

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Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture by Helena Feder Pdf

Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture: Biology and the Bildungsroman draws on work by Kinji Imanishi, Frans de Waal, and other biologists to create an interdisciplinary, materialist notion of culture for ecocritical analysis. In this timely intervention, Feder examines the humanist idea of culture by taking a fresh look at the stories it explicitly tells about itself. These stories fall into the genre of the Bildungsroman, the tale of individual acculturation that participates in the myth of its complete separation from and opposition to nature which, Feder argues, is culture’s own origin story. Moving from Voltaire’s Candide to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and from Virginia Woolf’s Orlando to Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy, the book dramatizes humanism’s own awareness of the fallacy of this foundational binary. In the final chapters, Feder examines the discourse of animality at work in this narrative as a humanist fantasy about empathy, one that paradoxically excludes other animals from the ethical community to justify the continued domination of both human and nonhuman others.

Author : Rayson K. Alex,S. Susan Deborah,Sachindev P.S.
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781443861908

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Culture and Media by Rayson K. Alex,S. Susan Deborah,Sachindev P.S. Pdf

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.

Author : Catrin Gersdorf,Sylvia Mayer
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789042020962

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Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies by Catrin Gersdorf,Sylvia Mayer Pdf

Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies is a collection of essays written by European and North American scholars who argue that nature and culture can no longer be thought of in oppositional, mutually exclusive terms. They are united in an effort to push the theoretical limits of ecocriticism towards a more rigorous investigation of nature's critical potential as a concept that challenges modern culture's philosophical assumptions, epistemological convictions, aesthetic principles, and ethical imperatives. This volume offers scholars and students of literature, culture, history, philosophy, and linguistics new insights into the ongoing transformation of ecocriticism into an innovative force in international and interdisciplinary literary and cultural studies.

Author : Gabriele Duerbeck,Urte Stobbe,Hubert Zapf,Evi Zemanek
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498514934

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Ecological Thought in German Literature and Culture by Gabriele Duerbeck,Urte Stobbe,Hubert Zapf,Evi Zemanek Pdf

This volume surveys the contribution of German literature and culture to the evolution of ecological thought from the age of Goethe to the present. In a broad spectrum of essays from different periods, disciplines, and genres, it conveys both the uniqueness and the transnational significance of German ecological thought.

Author : Nayar
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 8131727351

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Contemporary Literary And Cultural Theory: From Structuralism To Ecocriticism by Nayar Pdf

Author : G. Garrard
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230358393

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Teaching Ecocriticism and Green Cultural Studies by G. Garrard Pdf

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.

Author : Christopher Schliephake
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498532853

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Ecocriticism, Ecology, and the Cultures of Antiquity by Christopher Schliephake Pdf

Although current environmental debates lay the focus on the Industrial Revolution as a sociopolitical development that has led to the current environmental crisis, many ecocritical projects have avoided historicizing their concepts or have been characterized by approaches that were either pre-historic or post-historic: while the environmental movement has harbored the dream of restoring nature to a state untouched by human hands, there is also the pessimistic vision of a post-apocalyptic world, exhausted by humanity’s consumption of natural resources. Against this background, the decline of nature has become a narrative template quite common among the public environmental discourse and environmental scientists alike. The volume revisits Antiquity as an epoch which witnessed similar environmental problems and came up with its own interpretations and solutions in dealing with them. This decidedly historical perspective is not only supposed to fill in a blank in ecocritical discourse, but also to question, problematize, and inform our contemporary debates with a completely different take on “nature” and humanity’s place in the world. Thereby, a productive dialogue between contemporary ecocritical theories and the classical tradition is established that highlights similarities as well as differences. This volume is the first book to bring ecocriticism and the classical tradition into a comprehensive dialogue. It assembles recognized experts in the field and advanced scholars as well as young and aspiring ecocritics. In order to ensure a dialogic exchange between the contributions, the volume includes four response essays by established ecocritics which embed the sections within a larger theoretical and practical ecocritical framework and discuss the potential of including the pre-modern world into our environmental debates.

Author : Hubert Zapf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110314595

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Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology by Hubert Zapf Pdf

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.

Author : Elena dell'Agnese
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000394948

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Ecocritical Geopolitics by Elena dell'Agnese Pdf

What is the role of popular culture in shaping our discourse about the multifaceted system of material things, subjects and causal agents that we call "environment"? Ecocritical Geopolitics offers a new theoretical perspective and approach to the analysis of environmental discourse in popular culture. It combines ecocriticial and critical geopolitical approaches to explore three main themes: dystopian visions, the relationship between the human, post-human, and "nature" and speciesism and carnism. The importance of popular culture in the construction of geopolitical discourse is widely recognized. From ecocriticism, we also appreciate that literature, cinema, or theatre can offer a mirror of what the individual author wants to communicate about the relationship between the human being and what can be defined as non-human. This book provides an analysis of environmental discourses with the theoretical tools of critical geopolitics and the analytical methodology of ecocriticism. It develops and disseminates a new scientific approach, defined as "ecocritical geopolitics", to offer an idea of the power of popular culture in the realization of environmental discourse. Referencing sources as diverse as The Road, The Shape of Water, Lady and the Tramp, and TV cooking shows, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of geography, environmental studies, film studies, and environmental humanities.

Author : Fiona Becket,Terry Gifford
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042022508

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Culture, Creativity and Environment by Fiona Becket,Terry Gifford Pdf

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".

Author : Rayson K. Alex,S. Susan Deborah,P. S. Sachindev
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Ecocriticism
ISBN : 1443859710

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Culture and Media by Rayson K. Alex,S. Susan Deborah,P. S. Sachindev Pdf

"Indian ecocriticism has not yet adequately demonstrated the applicability of ecological/deep ecological/tinai principles to visual texts ... Though this volume accommodates ecologically oriented interpretations from several cultures across the world, it reserves the centre stage for Indian ecocriticism and ecotheory ... The volume effectively challenges the major documents on ecocriticism and theory ... 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 ... feed into the processes of creation and production of relevant and great movies"--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Axel Goodbody,Kate Rigby
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813931630

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Ecocritical Theory by Axel Goodbody,Kate Rigby Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004408876

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Green Matters by Anonim Pdf

Green Matters offers a fascinating insight into the regenerative function of literature with regard to environmental concerns. The contributions to this volume explore individual works or literary genres with a view to highlighting their eco-cultural potential.

Author : Christine L. Marran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Ecocriticism
ISBN : 1452958785

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Ecology Without Culture by Christine L. Marran Pdf

Cultures have long defined themselves through biological elements to prove their strength and longevity, from cherry blossoms in Japan to amber waves of grain in the United States. In this volume, Christine L. Marran introduces the concept of biotropes - material and semiotic figures that exist for human perception - to navigate how and why the material world has proven to be such an effective medium for representing culture.

Author : Reinhard Hennig,Anna-Karin Jonasson,Peter Degerman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498561914

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Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment by Reinhard Hennig,Anna-Karin Jonasson,Peter Degerman Pdf

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 Sápmi, 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.