Avenging Nature (eBook)

The Role of Nature in Modern and Contemporary Art and Literature

Noelia Malla Garcia, Maria Colom Jimenez, Eduardo Valls Oyarzun, Rebeca Cordero Sanchez, Rebeca Gualberto Valverde (Herausgeber)

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2020
258 Seiten
Bloomsbury Publishing (USA) (Verlag)
979-8-8818-8089-7 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;Nature, thou art my goddess"e;-Edmund's bold assertion in King Lear could easily inspire and, at the same time, function as a lamentation of the inadequate respect of nature in culture. In this volume, international experts provide multidisciplinary exploration of the insubordinate representations of nature in modern and contemporary literature and art. The work foregrounds the need to reassess how nature is already, and has been for a while, striking back against human domination. From the perspective of literary studies, art, history, media studies, ethics and philosophy, and ethnology and anthropology, Avenging Nature highlights the need of assessing insurgent discourses that-converging with counter-discourses of race, gender or class-realize the empowerment of nature from its subaltern position. Acknowledging the argument that cultural representations of nature establish a relationship of domination and exploitation of human discourse over nonhuman reality and that, in consequence, our regard for nature as humanist critics is instrumental and anthropocentric, the present volume advocates for the view that the time has come to finally perceive nature's vengeance and to critically probe into nature's ongoing revenge against the exploitation of culture.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.9.2020
• Co-Autor: Patrycja Austin, Leonor Martinez, Peter Melville, Carmen Mendez, Laura de la Parra, Javier Martin Parraga, Jessica Roberts, Ryan Winet, Anastasia Cardone, Pedro Miguel Carmona, Laura Sanz Garcia, Paula Barba Guerrero, Hande Gurses, Frank Izaguirre, Victor Junco, Monica Martin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• ISBN-13: 979-8-8818-8089-7 / 9798881880897