Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology

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Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology

Edited by: Hubert Zapf

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2016

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Volume 2 | Handbooks of English and American Studies

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Ecocriticism has emerged as one of the most fascinating and rapidly growing fields of recent literary and cultural studies. From its regional origins in late-twentieth-century Anglo-American academia, it has become a worldwide phenomenon, which involves a decidedly transdisciplinary and transnational paradigm that promises to return a new sense of relevance to research and teaching in the humanities. A distinctive feature of the present handbook in comparison with other survey volumes is the combination of ecocriticism with cultural ecology, reflecting an emphasis on the cultural transformation of ecological processes and on the crucial role of literature, art, and other forms of cultural creativity for the evolution of societies towards sustainable futures. In state-of-the-art contributions by leading international scholars in the field, this handbook maps some of the most important developments in contemporary ecocritical thought. It introduces key theoretical concepts, issues, and directions of ecocriticism and cultural ecology and demonstrates their relevance for the analysis of texts and other cultural phenomena.

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Hubert Zapf, University of Augsburg, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Editors’ Preface Martin Middeke, Gabriele Rippl and Hubert Zapf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
0. Introduction Hubert Zapf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part I. Ecocritical Theories of Culture and Literature
1. The Lightest Burden: The Aesthetic Abductions of Biosemiotics Wendy Wheeler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	19
2. Earth’s Poesy: Romantic Poetics, Natural Philosophy, and Biosemiotics Kate Rigby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	45
3. Merleau-Ponty and the Eco-Literary Imaginary Louise Westling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	65
4. Ecology and Immanence Hanjo Berressem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	84
5. Paradox as Bedrock: Social Systems Theory and the Ungrounding of Literary Environmentalism in Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire Hannes Bergthaller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	105
6. Aesthetics of Nature – A Philosophical Perspective Gernot Böhme Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	123
7. Cultural Ecology of Literature – Literature as Cultural Ecology Hubert Zapf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	135
Part II. Issues and Directions of Contemporary Ecocriticism
8. Neither the ‘Simple Backward Look’ nor the ‘Simple Progressive Thrust’: Ecocriticism and the Politics of Prosperity Kate Soper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	157
9. Political Ecology: Nature, Democracy, and American Literary Culture Catrin Gersdorf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	174
10. Ecocriticism and Postcolonial Studies Mita Banerjee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	194
11. Ecofeminisms, the Toxic Body, and Linda Hogan’s Power Christa Grewe-Volpp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	208
12. Ecocriticism, Place Studies, and Colm Tóibín’s “A Long Winter”: A Biocultural Perspective Nancy Easterlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	226
13. Animal Studies: Kafka’s Animal Stories Axel Goodbody Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	249
14. From Material to Posthuman Ecocriticism: Hybridity, Stories, Natures Serpil Oppermann Publicly Available Download PDF	273
15. Conciliation and Consilience: Climate Change in Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behaviour Greg Garrard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	295
Part III. Between the Local and the Global: Cultural Diversity vs. Eco-Cosmopolitanism
16. Narrative Scholarship as an American Contribution to Global Ecocriticism Scott Slovic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	315
17. Ecology and Life Writing in Transnational and Transcultural Perspective Alfred Hornung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	334
18. From Thomas Mann to Porto Marghera: Material Ecocriticism, Literary Interpretation, and Death in Venice Serenella Iovino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	349
19. Mediterranean Ecocriticism: The Sea in the Middle Elena Past Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	368
20. Eco- and Geo- Approaches in French and Francophone Literary Studies Rachel Bouvet and Stephanie Posthumus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	385
21. Latin American Environmental Discourses, Indigenous Ecological Consciousness and the Problem of ‘Authentic’ Native Identities Elmar Schmidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	413
22. Women Writing Nature in the Global South: New Forest Texts from Fractured Indian Forests Swarnalatha Rangarajan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	438
23. Ecocultures and the African Literary Tradition Ogaga Okuyade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	459
24. Ecosophy and Ecoaesthetics: A Chinese Perspective Cheng Xiangzhan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	481
25. World Risk Society and Ecoglobalism: Risk, Literature, and the Anthropocene Sylvia Mayer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	494
Part IV. Ecologies of Literary Communication
26. Cultural Ecology and the Teaching of Literature Sieglinde Grimm and Berbeli Wanning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	513
27. Environmental Narrative, Embodiment, and Emotion Alexa Weik von Mossner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	534
28. Beyond the Wasteland: An Ecocritical Reading of Modernist Trauma Literature Katharina Donn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	551
29. Literary Place and Cultural Memory Christopher Schliephake Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	569
30. The Ecology of Literary Chronotopes Timo Müller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	590
31. Cultural Ecology and Literary Translation Erik Redling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	605
Part V. Genre and Media Ecologies
32. PANORAMA: Three Ecocinematic Territories Scott MacDonald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	621
33. Ecomusicology from Poetic to Practical Aaron S. Allen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	644
34. Within and Beyond the Art World: Environmentalist Criticism of Visual Art Suzaan Boettger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	664
Index of Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	683
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	701
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	713

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eBook published on:

May 10, 2016

eBook ISBN:

9783110314595

Hardcover published on:

May 10, 2016

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110308372

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Front matter:

10

Main content:

715

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25

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110314595

eBook ISBN: 9783110314595

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110308372

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Ecocriticism/Literature; Ecocriticism/Cultural Phenomena

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Academics (Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies), Students (BA, MA and PhD level), Libraries, Institutes.

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