The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment

Herausgeber: Westling, Louise

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 570g
• ISBN-13: 9781107029927
• ISBN-10: 1107029929
• Artikelnr.: 40078345

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Louise Westling; Part I. Foundations: 1. Pastoral,
anti-pastoral, and post-pastoral Terry Gifford; 2. The green otherworlds of
early medieval literature Alfred Siewers; 3. 'Mapping by words': the
politics of land in Native American literature Shari Huhndorf; Part II.
Theories: 4. Ecocritical theory: romantic roots and impulses from
twentieth-century European thinkers Axel Goodbody; 5. Nature, post nature
Timothy Clark; 6. Violent affinities: sex, gender, and species in Cereus
Blooms at Night Catriona Sandilands; 7. The lure of the wilderness Leo
Mellor; Part III. Interdisciplinary Engagements: 8. 'Tongues I'll hang on
every tree': biosemiotics and the Book of Nature Wendy Wheeler; 9.
Sauntering along the border: Thoreau, Nabhan, and food politics Janet
Fiskio; 10. Animal studies, literary animals, and Yann Martel's Life of Pi
Sarah McFarland; Part IV. Major Directions: 11. Environmental justice,
cosmopolitics, and climate change Joni Adamson; 12. Systems and secrecy:
postcolonial ecocriticism and Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome Bonnie Roos
and Alex Hunt; 13. Environmental crises and East Asian literatures:
uncertain presents and futures Karen Thornber; 14. Confronting catastrophe:
ecocriticism in a warming world Kate Rigby; 15. Ecocinema and the wildlife
film Stephen Rust.