Ecocritical theology
Subtitle: neo-pastoral themes in American fiction from 1960 to the present
By: Joan Anderson Ashford ; foreword by Randy Malamud
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Jefferson, NC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780786469741
Subjects: Ecocriticism; Self-realization in literature; Naturalism in literature; History and criticism; Religion and literature; American fiction
Description: "This work examines humankind's relationship with the environment in the context of Judeo-Christian theological views. It demonstrates how characters from novels such as John Updike's Rabbit Run, DeLillo's White Noise, Toni Morrison's Paradise, and Cormac McCarthy's The Road take neo-pastoral journeys to rediscover an innovative relationship with nature and religion. "--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Freud, Bakhtin, and Rabbit: an ecocritical look at totem, animism, and the rogue in John Updike's Rabbit, run; title: And the word was made metaphor: Oedipa's religious instant in Thomas Pynchon's The crying of lot 49; title: Nature, god, and politics: deep ecology and Spinozan theory in Bernard Malamud's The fixer; title: Apocalypse visited: toxic consciousness in Don Delillo's White noise; title: Re-weaving master metaphors in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead; title: Interlocking pillars of oppression: ecofeminist theology in Toni Morrison's Paradise; title: Theories of ecotheology in Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal summer; title: Sophia's table and nuclear narrative in Cormac McCarthy's The road.