Ecocriticism and Women Writers [electronic resource] : Environmentalist Poetics of Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, and Ali Smith /
Kostkowska, J.author.
Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, and Ali Smith share an ecological philosophy of the world as one highly interconnected entity comprised of multiple and equal, human and non-human participants. This study argues that these writers' texts have an ecological significance in fostering respect for and understanding of difference, human and nonhuman.
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 The Narrative Ecology of ""Kew Gardens"": Virginia Woolf's Ecofeminist Imagination and the Narrative Discovery of Jacob's Room""; ""2 ""All Taken Together"": Ecological Form in Mrs. Dalloway""; ""3 Singing the World in The Waves: The Ecopoetics of Woolf's Play-Poem""; ""4 Living with the Other: Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body""; ""5 Multiplicity and Coexistence in The Powerbook""; ""6 The Fiction of Abundance and Awareness: Jeanette Winterson's Lighthousekeeping""; ""7 Hotel World: A Symbiotic Narrative Space""
""8 Getting Close: The Ecopoetics of Intimacy in Ali Smith's Like""""9 Stories That Change the World: Ali Smith's Ecological ""Realityfiction""""; ""Conclusion: Re-visioning the World from the Inside Out""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, and Ali Smith share an ecological philosophy of the world as one highly interconnected entity comprised of multiple and equal, human and non-human participants. This study argues that these writers' texts have an ecological significance in fostering respect for and understanding of difference, human and nonhuman.
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Winterson, Jeanette, 1959-
Smith, Ali, 1962-
Environmental policy.
Fiction.
Environmental sociology.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature.
Sociology.
Environmental Politics.
Fiction.
Environmental Sociology.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literature, general.
Gender Studies.