Professor Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (USA Arizona State University), Profsesor Linda T. Elkins-Tanton (Berkele University of California

Broschiertes Buch

Earth

Beschreibung

A literary scholar and a planetary scientist look at the Earth as object, viewed from the outside, and as a singular orb that is a challenge to scale and human self-importance.

Autor

Jeffrey Jerone Cohen is Dean of Humanities at Arizona State University, USA, and co-president of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. He is the author or editor of 13 books, including Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman (which received the 2017 René Wellek Prize for best book in comparative literature) and in collaboration with Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Earth (Bloomsbury, 2017), a re-examination of planet from the perspectives of a planetary scientist and a literary humanist.

Produktdetails

• Object Lessons
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 165mm x 118mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 137g
• ISBN-13: 9781501317910
• ISBN-10: 1501317911
• Artikelnr.: 44890120

Rezensionen

[An] alchemy of unlikely ideas ... [The authors] reflect on the geological history of the earth and humanity's understanding of it over the millennia. Sydney Morning Herald 20170420