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Ecology and Literatures in English

Author : Françoise Besson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781527523395

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In all latitudes, writers hold out a mirror, leading the reader to awareness by telling real or imaginary stories about people of good will who try to save what can be saved, and about animals showing humans the way to follow. Such tales argue that, in spite of all destructions and tragedies, if we are just aware of, and connected to, the real world around us, to the blade of grass at our feet and the star above our heads, there is hope in a reconciliation with the Earth. This may start with the emergence, or, rather, the return, of a nonverbal language, restoring the connection between human beings and the nonhuman world, through a form of communication beyond verbalization. Through a journey in Anglophone literature, with examples taken from Aboriginal, African, American, English, Canadian and Indian works, this book shows the role played by literature in the protection of the planet. It argues that literature reveals the fundamental idea that everything is connected and that it is only when most people are aware of this connection that the world will change. Exactly as a tree is connected with all the animal life in and around it, texts show that nothing should be separated. From Shakespeare’s theatre to ecopoetics, from travel writing to detective novels, from children’s books to novels, all literary genres show that literature responds to the violence destroying lands, men and nonhuman creatures, whose voices can be heard through texts.

Ecology and Literatures in English

Author : Cambridge Scholars Publisher
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 152754933X

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In all latitudes, writers hold out a mirror, leading the reader to awareness by telling real or imaginary stories about people of good will who try to save what can be saved, and about animals showing humans the way to follow. Such tales argue that, in spite of all destructions and tragedies, if we are just aware of, and connected to, the real world around us, to the blade of grass at our feet and the star above our heads, there is hope in a reconciliation with the Earth. This may start with the emergence, or, rather, the return, of a nonverbal language, restoring the connection between human beings and the nonhuman world, through a form of communication beyond verbalization. Through a journey in Anglophone literature, with examples taken from Aboriginal, African, American, English, Canadian and Indian works, this book shows the role played by literature in the protection of the planet. It argues that literature reveals the fundamental idea that everything is connected and that it is only when most people are aware of this connection that the world will change. Exactly as a tree is connected with all the animal life in and around it, texts show that nothing should be separated. From Shakespeareâ (TM)s theatre to ecopoetics, from travel writing to detective novels, from childrenâ (TM)s books to novels, all literary genres show that literature responds to the violence destroying lands, men and nonhuman creatures, whose voices can be heard through texts.

The Ecology of the English Outlaw in Medieval Literature

Author : Sarah Harlan-Haughey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317034698

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Arguing that outlaw narratives become particularly popular and poignant at moments of national ecological and political crisis, Sarah Harlan-Haughey examines the figure of the outlaw in Anglo-Saxon poetry and Old English exile lyrics such as Beowulf, works dealing with the life and actions of Hereward, the Anglo-Norman romance of Fulk Fitz Waryn, the Robin Hood ballads, and the Tale of Gamelyn. Although the outlaw's wilderness shelter changed dramatically from the menacing fens and forests of Anglo-Saxon England to the bright, known, and mapped greenwood of the late outlaw romances and ballads, Harlan-Haughey observes that the outlaw remained strongly animalistic, other, and liminal. His brutality points to a deep literary ambivalence towards wilderness and the animal, at the same time that figures such as the Anglo-Saxon resistance fighter Hereward, the brutal yet courtly Gamelyn, and Robin Hood often represent a lost England imagined as pristine and forested. In analyzing outlaw literature as a form of nature writing, Harlan-Haughey suggests that it often reveals more about medieval anxieties respecting humanity's place in nature than it does about the political realities of the period.

The Environmental Tradition in English Literature

Author : John Parham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351890656

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The Environmental Tradition in English Literature by John Parham Pdf

Drawing upon the English literary tradition for new perspectives and paradigms, this collection presents a broad range of theoretical and historical approaches to ecocriticism. The first section of the volume offers different theoretical frameworks for ecocritical work, encompassing a range of socio-political, post-modern and multi-disciplinary approaches. In the second section, contributors explore the ways in which ecocriticism allows us to re-think literary history.

An Ecology of World Literature

Author : Alexander Beecroft
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781685730

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An Ecology of World Literature by Alexander Beecroft Pdf

What constitutes a nation’s literature? How do literatures of different countries interact with one another? In this groundbreaking study, Alexander Beecroft develops a new way of thinking about world literature. Drawing on a series of examples and case studies, the book ranges from ancient epic to the contemporary fiction of Roberto Bolaño and Amitav Ghosh. Moving across literary ecologies of varying sizes, from small societies to the planet as a whole, the environments in which literary texts are produced and circulated, An Ecology of World Literature places in dialogue scholarly perspectives on ancient and modern, western and non-western texts, navigating literary study into new and uncharted territory.

Developments in Numerical Ecology

Author : Pierre Legendre,Louis Legendre
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642708800

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Developments in Numerical Ecology by Pierre Legendre,Louis Legendre Pdf

From earlier ecological studies it has become apparent that simple univariate or bivariate statistics are often inappropriate, and that multivariate statistical analyses must be applied. Despite several difficulties arising from the application of multivariate methods, community ecology has acquired a mathematical framework, with three consequences: it can develop as an exact science; it can be applied operationally as a computer-assisted science to the solution of environmental problems; and it can exchange information with other disciplines using the language of mathematics. This book comprises the invited lectures, as well as working group reports, on the NATO workshop held in Roscoff (France) to improve the applicability of this new method numerical ecology to specific ecological problems.

Local Natures, Global Responsibilities

Author : Laurenz Volkmann
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042028128

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Local Natures, Global Responsibilities by Laurenz Volkmann Pdf

Laurenz Volkmann is Professor of EFL Teaching at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, where NAncy Grimm and Katrin Thomson also teach. Ines Detmers is a lecturer in English literature at the Technical University of Chemnitz. --Book Jacket.

Ecological Literature and the Critique of Anthropocentrism

Author : Bryan L. Moore
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319607382

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Ecological Literature and the Critique of Anthropocentrism by Bryan L. Moore Pdf

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.

The Ecology of the English Outlaw in Medieval Literature

Author : Sarah Harlan-Haughey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317034681

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The Ecology of the English Outlaw in Medieval Literature by Sarah Harlan-Haughey Pdf

Arguing that outlaw narratives become particularly popular and poignant at moments of national ecological and political crisis, Sarah Harlan-Haughey examines the figure of the outlaw in Anglo-Saxon poetry and Old English exile lyrics such as Beowulf, works dealing with the life and actions of Hereward, the Anglo-Norman romance of Fulk Fitz Waryn, the Robin Hood ballads, and the Tale of Gamelyn. Although the outlaw's wilderness shelter changed dramatically from the menacing fens and forests of Anglo-Saxon England to the bright, known, and mapped greenwood of the late outlaw romances and ballads, Harlan-Haughey observes that the outlaw remained strongly animalistic, other, and liminal. His brutality points to a deep literary ambivalence towards wilderness and the animal, at the same time that figures such as the Anglo-Saxon resistance fighter Hereward, the brutal yet courtly Gamelyn, and Robin Hood often represent a lost England imagined as pristine and forested. In analyzing outlaw literature as a form of nature writing, Harlan-Haughey suggests that it often reveals more about medieval anxieties respecting humanity's place in nature than it does about the political realities of the period.

Teaching Ecocriticism and Green Cultural Studies

Author : G. Garrard
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,9 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.

The Green Studies Reader

Author : Laurence Coupe
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0415204062

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The Green Studies Reader by Laurence Coupe Pdf

Laurence Coupe brings together a collection of extracts from a wide range of both historical and contemporary ecocritical texts.

Dwellings of Enchantment

Author : Bénédicte Meillon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793631602

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Dwellings of Enchantment by Bénédicte Meillon Pdf

Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth offers ecocritical and ecopoetic readings that focus on multispecies dwellings of enchantment and reenchant our rapport with the more-than-human world. It sheds light on the marvelous entanglements between humans and other life forms coexisting with us–entanglements that, when fully perceived, call onto humans to shift perspectives on both the causes and solutions to current ecological crises. Working against the disenchantment of humans’ relationships with and perceptions of the world entailed by a modern ontology, this book illustrates the power of ecopoetics to attune humans to the vibrant matter both within and outside of us. Braiding indigenous with non-indigenous worldviews, this book tackles ecopoetics emerging from varying locations in the world. It underscores the postmodernist, remythologizing processes going on in many ecopoetic texts, via magical realist modes and mythopoeia.

Ecology and the Literature of the British Left

Author : Dr John Rignall,Professor H Gustav Klaus,Professor Valentine Cunningham
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409483601

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Ecology and the Literature of the British Left by Dr John Rignall,Professor H Gustav Klaus,Professor Valentine Cunningham Pdf

Premised on the belief that a social and an ecological agenda are compatible, this collection offers readings in the ecology of left and radical writing from the Romantic period to the present. While early ecocriticism tended to elide the bitter divisions within and between societies, recent practitioners of ecofeminism, environmental justice, and social ecology have argued that the social, the economic and the environmental have to be seen as part of the same process. Taking up this challenge, the contributors trace the origins of an environmental sensibility and of the modern left to their roots in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, charting the ways in which the literary imagination responds to the political, industrial and agrarian revolutions. Topics include Samuel Taylor Coleridge's credentials as a green writer, the interaction between John Ruskin's religious and political ideas and his changing view of nature, William Morris and the Garden City movement, H. G. Wells and the Fabians, the devastated landscapes in the poetry and fiction of the First World War, and the leftist pastoral poetry of the 1930s. In historicizing and connecting environmentally sensitive literature with socialist thought, these essays explore the interactive vision of nature and society in the work of writers ranging from William Wordsworth and John Clare to John Berger and John Burnside.

Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts

Author : Jennifer Munroe,Edward J. Geisweidt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317146353

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Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts by Jennifer Munroe,Edward J. Geisweidt Pdf

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.

Travel Writing and Environmental Awareness

Author : Françoise Besson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527513006

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Travel Writing and Environmental Awareness by Françoise Besson Pdf

Travel writing presents stories of human journeys and can guide us towards a better perception of our connections with the nonhuman world. This book is a collection of essays by writers and scholars from China, England, France, India, Tunisia and the United States of America. It discusses sustainable travels and travel writing, and explores the sense of connection with nature. From travels around one’s home to mountain hikes and bicycle rides, it also reminds us that planes can be used in a responsible way. It discusses conscious travelling and shows the important role texts play in educating us on this issue. This multidimensional book encompasses several literary genres: essays, autobiographies, mountain reports, novels, poetry, journals, graphic novels and scientific reports. It is aimed at all those who have some interest in travel, ecology, and the philosophy of place.