Ecocriticism and Geocriticism (eBook)

Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Literary Studies

Robert T. Tally Jr., Christine M. Battista (Herausgeber)

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2016 | 1st ed. 2016
XII, 214 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-137-54262-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Although treated as two distinct schools of thought, ecocriticism and geocriticism have both placed emphasis on the lived environment, whether through social or natural spaces. For the first time, this interdisciplinary collection of essays addresses the complementary and contested aspects of these approaches to literature, culture, and society.

Tom Bristow, University of Melbourne, Australia Louise Chamberlain, University of Nottingham, UK Ted Geier, Rice University, USA Derek Gladwin, University of British Columbia, Canada Dan Mills, Independent Scholar, USA Eric Prieto, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Stanka Radovi?, University of Toronto, USA Luca Raimondi, University of Bologna, Italy Judith Rauscher, University of Bamberg, Germany Silvia Schultermandl, University of Graz, Austria

Autor

Robert T. Tally Jr. is Associate Professor of English at Texas State University, USA. He is the author of Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism; Poe and the Subversion of American Literature; Spatiality (The New Critical Idiom); Utopia in the Age of Globalization; and, as editor, Geocritical Explorations, Literary Cartographies, and The Geocritical Legacies of Edward W. Said.   Christine M. Battista is the Chair of Media and Communication Studies and Assistant Professor of English at Johnson and Wales University, USA, where she teaches critical media studies, literary theory, American literature, and postcolonial literature.

Inhalt

Introduction: Ecocritical Geographies, Geocritical Ecologies, and the Spaces of Modernity; Robert T. Tally Jr. and Christine M. BattistaPART I: TRANS-THEORETICAL PRACTICES1. Geocriticism Meets Ecocriticism: Bertrand Westphal and Environmental Thinking; Eric Prieto2. Ecocritical and Geocritical Conjunctions in North Atlantic Environmental Multimedia and Place-Based Poetry; Derek Gladwin3. Noncommittal Commitment: Alien Spaces of Ecocosmopolitics in Recent World Literature; Ted GeierPART II: SURVEYING TERRITORIES4. Affective Edgelands: Wildness, History and Technology in Britain's Post-industrial and Post-natural Topographies; Tom Bristow5. 'The sea was the river, the river the sea': The Severn Estuary and the Bristol Channel in Robert Minhinnick and Philip Gross; Louise Chamberlain6. Black Jungle, Beautiful Forest: A Postcolonial, Green Geocriticism of the Indian Sundarbans; Luca RaimondiPART III: ECOCRITICAL EXPLORATIONS7. Outside Within: Natural Environment and Social Place in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca; Stanka Radovi?8. Joseph Hall's Mundus Alter et Idem and the Geo-satirical Indictment of the English Crown; Dan Mills9. Nature and the Oppressed Female Body in Nora Okja Keller's Ecofeminist Aesthetics; Silvia Schultermandl10. Toward an Environmental Imagination of Displacement in Contemporary Transnational American Poetry; Judith Rauscher

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.4.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
• Reihe/Serie: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
• Zusatzinfo: XII, 214 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Anthropocene • climate change • Ecology • Environmental Literature • Postcolonial
• ISBN-10: 1-137-54262-4 / 1137542624
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-54262-5 / 9781137542625