Ecocriticism
Subtitle: environments in Anglophone literatures
By: Sonja Frenzel, Birgit Neumann (eds.).
Series: Anglistik und Englischunterricht -- Band 86; Anglistik & Englischunterricht -- Bd. 86.
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter; Universitatsverlag Winter
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9783825368432
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Ecocriticism; Congresses; Nature in literature; English literature; History and criticism; Écocritique; Congrès; Nature dans la littérature; Littérature anglaise; Histoire et critique
Description: "During the past twenty-five years, ecocriticism has become an increasingly prolific field of study. Broadly speaking, ecocriticism examines historically variable concepts of nature, environments and ecological knowledge, arguing that these concepts are largely shaped by discursive representations. The volume?Ecocriticism? Environments in Anglophone Literatures? explores the cultural, social, ethical and theoretical challenges that our understanding of nature and environment pose from a perspective within literary studies. 0With particular interest in Anglophone literatures, the volume takes stock of the state of the art in ecocriticism and examines literary explorations of nature, environment, ecologies and environmental knowledge with particular interest in Anglophone literatures. More specifically, the volume sheds light on historicized and localized interrelationships between nature, culture and literature and reveals how literary texts imagine new, possibly more sustainable relationships between human beings and their nonhuman environments. 0Jointly, the essays provide innovative and exciting perspectives on the aesthetic agency of literature as well as on the intersections between ecocriticism and postcolonial studies. As the volume brings together a wide range of interrelated perspectives on environments, ecocriticism and ethics in Anglophone literatures, it also offers didactic impulses for rethinking the role of literature in the Anthropocene"--Page 4 of cover

"During the past twenty-five years, ecocriticism has become an increasingly prolific field of study. Broadly speaking, ecocriticism examines historically variable concepts of nature, environments and ecological knowledge, arguing that these concepts are largely shaped by discursive representations. The volume ?Ecocriticism ? Environments in Anglophone Literatures? explores the cultural, social, ethical and theoretical challenges that our understanding of nature and environment pose from a perspective within literary studies. 0With particular interest in Anglophone literatures, the volume takes stock of the state of the art in ecocriticism and examines literary explorations of nature, environment, ecologies and environmental knowledge with particular interest in Anglophone literatures. More specifically, the volume sheds light on historicized and localized interrelationships between nature, culture and literature and reveals how literary texts imagine new, possibly more sustainable relationships between human beings and their nonhuman environments. 0Jointly, the essays provide innovative and exciting perspectives on the aesthetic agency of literature as well as on the intersections between ecocriticism and postcolonial studies. As the volume brings together a wide range of interrelated perspectives on environments, ecocriticism and ethics in Anglophone literatures, it also offers didactic impulses for rethinking the role of literature in the Anthropocene"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Papers from an international conference held at Heinrich Heine University, Duesseldorf, Germany, in April 2016.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction: Environments in Anglophone literatures  -- Sonja Frenzel and Birgit Neumann; title: Aesthetic aeffect: relationality as a core concept in environmental studies and education  -- Roman Bartosch; title: An ecopoetics of storied matter: agency, affect, and errantry in the Anthropocene  -- Sonja Frenzel; title: A feeling for form: biosemiotics and the primacy of aesthetic knowing (on the way to ethics)  -- Wendy Wheeler; title: The road in the garden: pastoral environments in the post-war Caribbean novel  -- Timo Muller; title: Geopoetics of matter and memory in M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong!  -- Jan Rupp; title: Therianthropes past and future: tranformative figures in colonial and postcolonial writing  -- John Thieme; title: Call the pulsing home: poetry, fascination and resonance in ecocritical environments  -- Jonathan Skinner; title: The Anthropocene scriptorium: writing and agency in Ben Lerner's 10:04 and Tom McCarthy's Satin Island  -- Joannis Tsitsovits and Pieter Vermeulen; title: "Because I am a man, and I have acid hands": environment, ethics and masculinity in contemporary Welsh poetry in English  -- Rainer Emig; title: When everything is up for grabs: environmental narcissism in Percival Everett's Grand Canyon, Inc. -- Alexa Weik von Mossner.