Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Stone

An Ecology of the Inhuman

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Produktbeschreibung

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen reminds us in Stone ,that what is often assumed to be the most lifeless of substances is, in its owntime, restless and forever in motion. Cohen seamlessly brings together a widerange of topics and invites us to apprehend the world both in geological timeand in other than human terms.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780816692620
• ISBN-10: 0816692629
• Artikelnr.: 41782964

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is professor of English and director of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute at George Washington University. He is the author of Medieval Identity Machines and Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages, and the editor of Monster Theory: Reading Culture, Prismatic Ecology, and Elemental Ecocritism: Thinking with Earth, Air, Fire, and Water (all from Minnesota). 

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction: Stories of Stone
Geophilia: The Love of Stone
Excursus: The Weight of the Past
Time: The Insistence of Stone
Excursus: A Heart Unknown
Force: The Adventure of Stone
Excursus: Geologic
Soul: The Life of Stone
Afterword: Iceland
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index