Transversal ecocritical praxis : theoretical arguments, literary analysis, and cultural critique / Patrick D. Murphy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murphy, Patrick D., 1951-

Series:

Ecocritical theory and practice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecocriticism.

Ecology--Economic aspects--United States.

Ecology.

Philosophy of nature in literature.

Ecology in literature.

Ecofeminism in literature.

Environmental literature--History and criticism.

Environmental literature.

Ecology--Economic aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

viii, 183 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2013]

Contents:

Introduction: Unpacking the terms of my title and outlining the organization of my text

Dialoguing with Bakhtin on our ethical responsiblility to anothers

Furnishing the study for performing the household by resolving static cling: the procession of identity and ecology in contemporary literature

Subjects, identities, bodies, and selves: siblings, symbiotes, and the ecological stakes of self perception

An ecological feminist revisioning of the masculinist sublime

Consumption as addiction, sustainability as recovery

Community resilience and the cosmopolitan role in environmental challenge-response novels of Ghosh, Grace, and Sinha

The poetic politics of ecological inhabitation in Neruda's Canto general and Cardenal's Cosmic canticle

The dilemma of terraforming in three parts

Damning damming modernity: the destructive role of megadams

Preparing on the plateau of peak oil for a post-carbon economy in Okinawa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739182703

0739182706

OCLC:

841227444