Ecocriticism and geocriticism
Subtitle: overlapping territories in environmental and spatial literary studies
By: edited by Robert T. Tally Jr. and Christine M. Battista
Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781137553676
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General; Geocriticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; Literature and society; Ecocriticism; History
Description: "Ecocriticism and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Literary Studies presents an interdisciplinary collection of essays which address the complementary and contested aspects of these related, but sometimes conflicting, approaches to literature, cultural, and society in the twenty-first century"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 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 Radovic8. 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.