Handbook Of Ecocriticism And Cultural Ecology

Author : Hubert Zapf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Scott Slovic,Swarnalatha Rangarajan,Vidya Sarveswaran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351682695

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Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication by Scott Slovic,Swarnalatha Rangarajan,Vidya Sarveswaran Pdf

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.

Author : Greg Garrard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199908196

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The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism by Greg Garrard Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism provides a broad survey of the longstanding relationship between literature and the environment. The moment for such an offering is opportune in many respects: multiple environmental crises are increasingly inescapable at both transnational and local levels; the role of the humanities in addition to technology and politics is increasingly recognized as central for exploring and finding solutions; and the subject of ecocriticism has reached a kind of critical mass, both within its Anglo-American heartlands and beyond. From its origins in the study of American Nature Writing and British Romanticism, ecocriticism has developed along numerous theoretical, historical, cultural and geographical axes, the most contemporary and exciting of which will be represented in the Handbook. The contributors include eminent founders of the field, including Michael Branch and Richard Kerridge, a number of key 'second-wave' ecocritics, and the best up-and-coming scholars. Topics covered include: Renaissance anxieties about nature; the challenges of representing climate change; the racialization of the environment in the early 20th century; language and the concept of biosemiotics; and the possibilities for environmental humour.

Author : Martin Middeke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783476004062

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English and American Studies by Martin Middeke Pdf

Das ganze Studium der Anglistik und Amerikanistik in einem Band. Ob englische und amerikanische Literatur, Sprachwissenschaft, Literatur- und Kulturtheorie, Fachdidaktik oder die Analyse von Filmen und kulturellen Phänomenen führende Fachvertreter geben in englischer Sprache einen ausführlichen Überblick über alle relevanten Teildisziplinen. BA- und MA-Studierende finden hier die wichtigsten Grundlagen und Wissensgebiete auf einen Blick. Durch die übersichtliche Darstellung und das Sachregister optimal für das systematische Lernen und zum Nachschlagen geeignet.

Author : Hubert Zapf
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474274661

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Literature as Cultural Ecology by Hubert Zapf Pdf

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Drawing on the latest debates in ecocritical theory and sustainability studies, Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts outlines a new approach to the reading of literary texts. Hubert Zapf considers the ways in which literature operates as a form of cultural ecology, using language, imagination and critique to challenge and transform cultural narratives of humanity's relationship to nature. In this way, the book demonstrates the important role that literature plays in creating a more sustainable way of life. Applying this approach to works by writers such as Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Zakes Mda, and Amitav Ghosh, Literature as Cultural Ecology is an essential contribution to the contemporary environmental humanities.

Author : Hubert Zapf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : American literature
ISBN : 1474274684

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Literature as Cultural Ecology by Hubert Zapf Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : 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.

Author : Christopher Schliephake
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Douglas A. Vakoch
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000634402

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The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature by Douglas A. Vakoch Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature explores the interplay between the domination of nature and the oppression of women, as well as liberatory alternatives, bringing together essays from leading academics in the field to facilitate cutting-edge critical readings of literature. Covering the main theoretical approaches and key literary genres of the area, this volume includes: • Examination of ecofeminism through the literatures of a diverse sampling of languages, including Hindi, Chinese, Arabic, and Spanish; native speakers of Tamil, Vietnamese, Turkish, Slovene, and Icelandic. • Analysis of core issues and topics, offering innovative approaches to interpreting literature, including: activism, animal studies, cultural studies, disability, gender essentialism, hegemonic masculinity, intersectionality, material ecocriticism, postcolonialism, posthumanism, postmodernism, race, and sentimental ecology. • Surveys key periods and genres of ecofeminism and literary criticism, including chapters on Gothic, Romantic, and Victorian literatures, children and young adult literature, mystery, and detective fictions, including interconnected genres of climate fiction, science fiction, and fantasy, and distinctive perspectives provided by travel writing, autobiography, and poetry. This collection explores how each of ecofeminism’s core concerns can foster a more emancipatory literary theory and criticism, now and in the future. This comprehensive volume will be of great interest to scholars and students of literature, ecofeminism, ecocriticism, gender studies, and the environmental humanities.

Author : Gabriele Duerbeck,Urte Stobbe,Hubert Zapf,Evi Zemanek
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : Alfred Hornung,Baisheng Zhao
Publisher : Universitatsverlag Winter
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Autobiography
ISBN : 3825358925

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Ecology and Life Writing by Alfred Hornung,Baisheng Zhao Pdf

This volume examines the interrelations between ecological concerns and personal forms of writing in Europe, Asia, and America. It assembles contributions from an international conference of experts from four continents who provide new insights into the redefinition of the self in contact with nature in different parts of the world. Articles range from the American tradition of nature writing via the ecological traditions of Native Americans and ethnic communities to Asian attitudes of nature worship and the dangers to human and animal lives on planet earth. Beyond the familiar Anglo-American focus, these case studies, interpretations of auto/biographical texts and films begin to bridge the gap between Western and Eastern discourses and propose new approaches to the theoretical basis of ecocriticism and life writing.

Author : Patrick D. Murphy
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739131756

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Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies by Patrick D. Murphy Pdf

In Ecocritical Explorations, Patrick D. Murphy explores environmental literature and environmental cultural issues through both theoretical and applied criticism. He engages with the concepts of referentiality, simplicity, the nation state, and virtual reality in the first section of the book, and then goes on to interrogate these issues in contemporary environmental literature, both American and international. He concludes his argument with a discussion of the larger frames of family dynamics and un-natural disasters, such as hurricanes and global warming, ending with a chapter on the integration of scholarship and pedagogy in the classroom, with reference to his own teaching experiences. Murphy's study provides a wide ranging discussion of contemporary literature and cultural phenomena through the lens of ecological literary criticism, giving attention to both theoretical issues and applied critiques. In particular, he looks at popular literary genres, such as mystery and science fiction, as well as actual disasters and disaster scenarios. Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies is a timely contribution to ecological literary criticism and an insightful look into how we represent our relationship with the environment.

Author : Greg Garrard
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000841268

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Ecocriticism by Greg Garrard Pdf

Ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine and portray the relationship between humans and the environment across many areas of cultural production, including Romantic poetry, wildlife documentaries, climate models, the Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, and novels by Margaret Atwood, Kim Scott, Barbara Kingsolver and Octavia Butler. Greg Garrard’s animated and accessible volume responds to the diversity of the field today and explores its key concepts, including: pollution pastoral wilderness apocalypse animals Indigeneity the Earth. Thoroughly revised to reflect the breadth and diversity of twenty-first-century environmental writing and criticism, this edition addresses climate change and justice throughout, and features a new chapter on Indigeneity. It also presents a glossary of terms and suggestions for further reading. Concise, clear and authoritative, Ecocriticism offers the ideal introduction to this crucial subject for students of literary and cultural studies.

Author : Roger S. Gottlieb
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199727698

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The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology by Roger S. Gottlieb Pdf

The last two decades have seen the emergence of a new field of academic study that examines the interaction between religion and ecology. Theologians from every religious tradition have confronted world religions past attitudes towards nature and acknowledged their own faiths complicity in the environmental crisis. Out of this confrontation have been born vital new theologies based in the recovery of marginalized elements of tradition, profound criticisms of the past, and ecologically oriented visions of God, the Sacred, the Earth, and human beings. The proposed handbook will serve as the definitive overview of these exciting new developments. Divided into three main sections, the books essays will reflect the three dominant dimensions of the field. Part one will explore traditional religious concepts of and attitudes towards nature and how these have been changed by the environmental crisis. Part II looks at larger conceptual issues that transcend individual traditions. Part III will examine religious participation in environmental politics.