Literature As Cultural Ecology

Author : Hubert Zapf
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : American literature
ISBN : 1474274684

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Literature as Cultural Ecology by Hubert Zapf Pdf

Author : Hubert Zapf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 725 pages
File Size : 40,7 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 : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 52,8 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 : Gabriele Duerbeck,Urte Stobbe,Hubert Zapf,Evi Zemanek
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : Catrin Gersdorf,Sylvia Mayer
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : Chris Campbell,Michael Niblett,Kerstin Oloff
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030761554

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Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System by Chris Campbell,Michael Niblett,Kerstin Oloff Pdf

Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System marks a significant intervention into the field of literary food studies. Drawing on new work in world literature, cultural studies, and environmental studies, the essays gathered here explore how literary and cultural texts have represented and responded to the global food system from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Covering topics such as the impact of colonial monocultures and industrial agriculture, enclosure and the loss of the commons, the meatification of diets, the toxification of landscapes, and the consequences of climate breakdown, the volume ranges across the globe, from Thailand to Brazil, Cyprus to the Caribbean. Whether it is anxieties over imported meat in late Victorian Britain, labour struggles on Guatemalan banana plantations, or food dependency in Puerto Rico, the contributors to this volume show how fiction, poetry, drama, film, and music have critically explored and contributed to food cultures worldwide.

Author : Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey,Renée K. Gosson,George B. Handley
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0813923727

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Caribbean Literature and the Environment by Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey,Renée K. Gosson,George B. Handley Pdf

Examines the literatures of the Caribbean from an ecocritical perspective in all language areas of the region. This book explores the ways in which the history of transplantation and settlement has provided unique challenges and opportunities for establishing a sense of place and an environmental ethic in the Caribbean.

Author : Dana Phillips
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,6 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.

Author : Christine L. Marran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Karen E. Waldron,Rob Friedman
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810891982

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Toward a Literary Ecology by Karen E. Waldron,Rob Friedman Pdf

Scholarship of literature and the environment demonstrates myriad understandings of nature and culture. While some work in the field results in approaches that belong in the realm of cultural studies, other scholars have expanded the boundaries of ecocriticism to connect the practice more explicitly to disciplines such as the biological sciences, human geography, or philosophy. Even so, the field of ecocriticism has yet to clearly articulate its interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary nature. In Toward a Literary Ecology: Places and Spaces in American Literature,editors Karen E. Waldron and Robert Friedman have assembled a collection of essays that study the interconnections between literature and the environment to theorize literary ecology. The disciplinary perspectives in these essays allow readers to comprehend places and environments and to represent, express, or strive for that comprehension through literature. Contributors to this volume explore the works of several authors, including Gary Snyder, Karen Tei Yamashita, Rachel Carson, Terry Tempest Williams, Chip Ward, and Mary Oliver. Other essays discuss such topics as urban fiction as a model of literary ecology, the geographies of belonging in the work of Native American poets, and the literary ecology of place in “new” nature writing. Investigating texts for the complex interconnections they represent, Toward a Literary Ecology suggests what such texts might teach us about the interconnections of our own world. This volume also offers a means of analyzing representations of people in places within the realm of an historical, cultural, and geographically bounded yet diverse American literature. Intended for students of literature and ecology, this collection will also appeal to scholars of geography, cultural studies, philosophy, biology, history, anthropology, and other related disciplines.

Author : Michael Niblett
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030385811

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World Literature and Ecology by Michael Niblett Pdf

Located at the intersection of world-literary studies and the environmental humanities, this book analyses how fiction and poetry respond to the ecological transformations entailed by commodity frontiers. Examining the sugar, cacao, coal, and oil frontiers in Trinidad, Brazil, and Britain, World Literature and Ecology shows how literary texts have registered the relationship between the re-making of biophysical natures and struggles around class, race, and gender. It combines a materialist theory of world-literature with the insights of the world-ecology perspective to generate compelling new readings of writers such as Rhys Davies, Yseult Bridges, Lewis Jones, José Lins do Rego, Ellen Wilkinson, Jorge Amado, Gwyn Thomas, and Ralph de Boissière. The book represents a timely intervention into a series of field-defining debates around peripheral realisms and modernisms, ecocriticism, and the energy humanities.

Author : Mark Q. Sutton,E. N. Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000323580

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An Introduction to Cultural Ecology by Mark Q. Sutton,E. N. Anderson Pdf

This contemporary introduction to the principles and research base of cultural ecology is the ideal textbook for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses that deal with the intersection of humans and the environment in traditional societies. After introducing the basic principles of cultural anthropology, environmental studies, and human biological adaptations to the environment, the book provides a thorough discussion of the history of, and theoretical basis behind, cultural ecology. The bulk of the book outlines the broad economic strategies used by traditional cultures: hunting/gathering, horticulture, pastoralism, and agriculture. Fully explicated with cases, illustrations, and charts on topics as diverse as salmon ceremonies among Northwest Indians, contemporary Maya agriculture, and the sacred groves in southern China, this book gives a global view of these strategies. An important emphasis in this text is on the nature of contemporary ecological issues, how peoples worldwide adapt to them, and what the Western world can learn from their experiences. A perfect text for courses in anthropology, environmental studies, and sociology.

Author : Herbert Grabes
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 3823341715

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Literary History - Cultural History by Herbert Grabes Pdf

Author : Priscilla Solis Ybarra
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816532001

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Writing the Goodlife by Priscilla Solis Ybarra Pdf

"The book looks to long-established traditions of environmentalist thought alive in Mexican American literary history over the last 150 years"--Provided by publisher.