Télécharger le livre :  Visualizing Loss in Latin America
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Visualizing Loss in Latin America engages with a varied corpus of textual, visual, and cultural material with specific intersections with the natural world, arguing that Latin American literary and cultural production goes beyond ecocriticism as a...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-05-19
Collection : Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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Télécharger le livre :  Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature
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This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, and Foucauldian theory, Matthias Klestil examines forms of environmental knowledge in...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-04-20
Collection : Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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Télécharger le livre :  George C. Williams and Evolutionary Literacy
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In this book, a case study of a humanistic reading of an essential evolutionary theorist, George C. Williams (May 12, 1926–September 8, 2010), the author contends that certain classic works of evolutionary theory and history are the most...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-09-28
Collection : Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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Télécharger le livre :  Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System
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Literary and Cultural Production, World-Ecology, and the Global Food System marks a significant intervention into the field of literary food studies. Drawing on new work in world literature, cultural studies, and environmental studies, the essays gathered here explore...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-08-12
Collection : Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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Télécharger le livre :  Early Anthropocene Literature in Britain, 1750–1884
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This book questions when exactly the Anthropocene began, uncovering an “early Anthropocene” in the literature, art, and science of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. In chapters organized around the classical elements of Earth, Fire, Water, and Air, Seth...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-08-19
Collection : Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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Télécharger le livre :  Ecocriticism and Asian American Literature
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Ecocriticism and Asian American Literature: Gold Mountains, Weedflowers, and Murky Globes offers an ecocritical reinterpretation of Asian American literature. The book considers more than a century of Asian American writing, from Eaton’s Mrs. Spring Fragrance (1912) to...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-01-24
Collection : Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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Télécharger le livre :  Literature, Pedagogy, and Climate Change
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Literature, Pedagogy, and Climate Change: Text Models for a Transcultural Ecology asks two questions: How do we read (in) the Anthropocene? And what can reading teach us? To answer these questions, the book develops a concept of transcultural ecology that understands...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-11-21
Collection : Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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Télécharger le livre :  The Literary Heritage of the Environmental Justice Movement
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The Literary Heritage of the Environmental Justice Movement showcases environmental literature from writers who fought for women’s rights, native rights, workers’ power, and the abolition of slavery during the Romantic Era. Many Romantic texts take flight from society...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-05-11
Collection : Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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Télécharger le livre :  Reading for Wonder
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In a world awash in awesome, sensual technological experiences, wonder has diverse powers, including awakening us to unexpected ecological intimacies and entanglements.  Yet this deeply felt experience—at once cognitive, aesthetic, and ethical—has been dangerously...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-12-13
Collection : Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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Télécharger le livre :  The Ecopoetics of Entanglement in Contemporary Turkish and American Literatures
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This book foregrounds entanglement as a guiding concept in Derrida’s work and considers its implications and benefits for ecocritical thought. Ergin introduces the notion of "ecological text" to emphasize textuality as a form of entanglement that proves useful in...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-11
Collection : Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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Télécharger le livre :  German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene
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This book offers essays on both canonical and non-canonical German-language texts and films, advancing ecocritical models for German Studies, and introducing environmental issues in German literature and film to a broader audience.This volume contextualizes the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-04-18
Collection : Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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Télécharger le livre :  Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather
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This book tracks across history and cultures the ways in which writers have imagined cyclones, hurricanes, and typhoons, collectively understood as “tropical weather.” Historically, literature has drawn upon the natural world for its store of symbolic language and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-01-09
Collection : Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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Télécharger le livre :  Climate Change Fictions
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This book highlights the importance of the cultural sphere, and in particular literature, in response and discussion with the unprecedented phenomenon known as climate change. Antonia Mehnert turns to a set of contemporary American works of fiction, reading them as a...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-11-04
Collection : Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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Télécharger le livre :  The Ecology of Wonder in Romantic and Postmodern Literature
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This book traces the aesthetic of wonder from the romantic period through contemporary philosophy and literature, arguing for its relevance to ecological consciousness. Most ecocritical scholarship tends to overshadow discussions of wonder with the sublime, failing to...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-05-06
Collection : Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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Télécharger le livre :  Foodscapes of Contemporary Japanese Women Writers
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Translated from Japanese, this study exposes English-language scholars to the complexities of the relationship between food, culture, the environment, and literature in Japan. Yuki explores the systems of value surrounding food as expressed in four popular Japanese...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-18
Collection : Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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Télécharger le livre :  The Environmental Imaginary in Brazilian Poetry and Art
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This study contributes to ongoing discussions on the connections between the environmental imaginary and issues of identity, place and nation. Utilizing a delimited ecocritical approach, McNee puts Brazilian culture, through the work of contemporary poets and visual...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-07-10
Collection : Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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Télécharger le livre :  East Asian Ecocriticisms
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East Asian Ecocriticisms presents original essays from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China that define and characterize trends inEast Asian ecocriticism. Drawing on diverse theoretical perspectives in environmental thought and scholarship, this volume presents...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-03-26
Collection : Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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Télécharger le livre :  Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives
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The concept of 'wilderness' as a foundational idea for environmentalist thought has become the subject of vigorous debates. Myths of Wilderness in Contemporary Narratives offers a taxonomy of the forms that wilderness writing has taken in Australian and Canadian...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-10-19
Collection : Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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Télécharger le livre :  Ecofeminist Approaches to Early Modernity
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Challenges the notion of how early modern women may or may not have spoken for (or even with) nature. By focusing on various forms of 'dialogue,' these essays shift our interest away from speaking and toward listening, to illuminate ways that early modern Englishwomen...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-11-16
Collection : Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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Télécharger le livre :  Ecocriticism and Shakespeare
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This book offers the term 'ecophobia' as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world. Estok argues that this vocabulary is both necessary to the developing area of ecocritical studies and for our understandings of the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-04-25
Collection : Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
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