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Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction : Environment and Affect / Heather Houser.
Van Pelt Library PS169.E25 H68 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Houser, Heather.
- Series:
- Literature now
- Literature Now
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Environmentalism in literature.
- Diseases in literature.
- Ecocriticism.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Ecosickness in Contemporary United States fiction
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2014.
- Contents:
- 1 Ecosickness
- Sickness in a Technoscientific Age 8
- Life, Ethics, and Action 12
- Ecosickness in the Field 19
- Outline of the Book 27
- 2 AIDS Memoirs Out of the City: Discordant Natures 31
- Prologue 31
- Contested Natures 39
- North Enough's "Difficult Beauties" 46
- The "Con" in Close to the Knives 55
- Discordant Feelings, Suspicious Stances 65
- Discord in Activism 72
- 3 Richard Powers's Strange Wonder 77
- "Weirdly Alive" with Wonder 81
- "The Ordinary by Another Name" 93
- "Struggling with Complex Interactions" 100
- "The Ethic of Tending" 109
- 4 Infinite Jest's Environmental Case for Disgust 117
- Detached Dispositions 124
- "Experial" Ambitions 130
- Body Building 139
- Affective Itineraries 145
- How to Do Things with Disgust 152
- 5 The Anxiety of Intervention in Leslie Marmon Silko and Marge Piercy 167
- Disrupting the "Pattern of Disease" 170
- "A Single Configuration" of Land and Body 175
- Iniquitous Interventions 185
- Anxious Apocalypse 195
- Squirming and Trembling 208.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231165143
- 0231165145
- OCLC:
- 863199859
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