Ecocritical theory : new European approaches / edited by Axel Goodbody and Kate Rigby.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goodbody, Axel, 1950-

Rigby, Catherine E.

Series:

Under the sign of nature.

Under the sign of nature: explorations in ecocriticism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecocriticism--Europe.

Ecocriticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bringing together approaches and orientations based on the work of European philosophers and cultural theorists, this volume is designed to open new pathways for ecocritical theory and practice in the twenty-first century.

Contents:

Passing glories and romantic retrievals: avant-garde nostalgia and hedonist renewal / Kate Soper

Green things in the garbage: ecocritical gleaning in Walter Benjamin's arcades / Catriona Sandilands

Raymond Williams: materialism and ecocriticism / Martin Ryle

Sense of place and lieu de mémoire: a cultural memory approach to environmental texts / Axel Goodbody

From literary anthropology to cultural ecology: German ecocritical theory since Wolfgang Iser / Timo Müller

The social theory of Norbert Elias and the question of the nonhuman world / Linda Williams

From the modern to the ecological: Latour on Walden pond / Laura Dassow Walls

Martin Heidegger, D.H. Lawrence, and poetic attention to being / Trevor Norris

Merleau-Ponty's ecophenomenology / Louise Westling

Gernot Böhme's ecological aesthetics of atmosphere / Kate Rigby

Dialoguing with Bakhtin over our ethical responsibility to anothers / Patrick D. Murphy

Coexistence and coexistents: ecology without a world / Timothy Morton

The matter of texts: a material intertextuality and ecocritical engagements with the Bible / Anne Elvey

There can be no democracy without a culture of difference / Luce Irigaray

The ecological Irigaray? / Christopher Cohoon

Cybernetics and social systems theory / Hannes Bergthaller

Ecocentric postmodern theory: interrelations between ecological, quantum, and postmodern theories / Serpil Oppermann

Affinity studies and open systems: a non-equilibrium, ecocritical reading of Goethe's Faust / Heather I. Sullivan

Blake, Deleuze, and the emergence of ecological consciousness / Mark Lussier

The biosemiotic turn: Abduction, or, the nature of creative reason in nature and culture / Wendy Wheeler.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613587282

9781280492051

1280492058

9780813931630

0813931630

OCLC:

784960282