Environmental awareness and the design of literature / edited by Francois Specq.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Specq, François, 1965- editor.

Series:

Studies in environmental humanities ; 3.

Studies in environmental humanities ; volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Environment (Aesthetics).

Nature in literature.

Human ecology in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 163 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2017]

Summary:

Environmental Awareness and the Design of Literature' offers analyses of the diverse ways in which literature helps us escape the rigid frames of commonly assumed worldviews and modes of seeing. Literary works are endowed with a capacity not only to reflect or to mediate, but to resist our environment, and thus to affect and transform our relation to the physical world. Each essay points to the way literature shapes the human perception of environment as intellectual adventures and forays that draw upon a number of historical, aesthetic, philosophical and phenomenological stances.

Contents:

1 The World Outside in (Literature) / François Specq Specq, François 1

2 American Ecocriticism and the Ethics of Commitment / François Gavillon Gavillon, François 17

3 Urban Ambivalences and Narrative Domains in Defoe's Novels / Anne Dromart Dromart, Anne 39

4 Thorcau's Environmental Humanism / François Specq Specq, François 52

5 Environmental Awareness and Geography: Reading Reclus Ecocritically? / Bertrand Guest Guest, Bertrand 69

6 Ecological Awareness and the Democratic Consensus: John Muir's Post-Mortem Radicalism / Jean-Daniel Collomb Collomb, Jean-Daniel 90

7 John C. Van Dyke, The Desert (1901): Under the Shadow of the Artificial Desert / Michel Granger Granger, Michel 105

8 Encountering the Sahara: Embodiment, Emotion, and Material Agency in Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky / Alexa Weik von Mossner Mossner, Alexa Weik von 116

9 Dillard Dancing: An American Childhood / Nathalie Cochoy Cochoy, Nathalie 136

10 On Duff Wilson: Community, Agribusiness and Environmental Testimony / Alain Suberchicot Suberchicot, Alain 148.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Environmental awareness and the design of literature

ISBN:

9789004324800

9004324801

OCLC:

962352756