Prospective Memory: Sustainability in Poetic Theory and Practice

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Content 5
3. Acknowledgments 7
4. Introduction: Why Juxtapose the Concepts of Nostalgia and Sustainability? 9
5. Nostalgia and the Genesis and Sustainability of Values 37
6. Between Nostalgia and the New: Turns to Ontology in Contemporary Theory 55
7. Civic Art Lab: Reflections on Art, Design, and Sustainability 73
8. Prospective Memory: Sustainability in Poetic Theory and Practice 95
9. Agente Costura: Sustainability Sounds 111
10. Considering the Values of the Past: Sustainability and (Anti)Nostalgia in the Medieval Monastery 119
11. Commoning Nostalgia: Making “Romantic Sensibility Sustainable” in Contemporary Poetry 139
12. Nostalgic Utopias: William Dean Howells’s Altrurian Romances (1892-1907) 161
13. Cultural Ecosystems and the Paradoxes of American Environmentalism 177
14. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Pastness: Nostalgia and Sustainability in American Post-Suburbia 197
15. Nostalgia and the Sustainable Lyric: John Burnside and the Pibroch 221
16. Behemoth, Nostalgia and Ecological Agency Behemoth, Nostalgia and Ecological Agency 239
17. Value Creation in Nostalgia and Sustainability: Interacting on Behalf of the Absent 257
18. Authors 267