Nature in literary and cultural studies : transatlantic conversations on ecocriticism / edited by Catrin Gersdorf and Sylvia Mayer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gersdorf, Catrin.

Mayer, Sylvia.

Series:

Nature, culture and literature ; 3.

Nature, culture and literature ; 03

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecocriticism--Congresses.

Ecocriticism.

Nature in literature--Congresses.

Nature in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (491 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies is a collection of essays written by European and North American scholars who argue that nature and culture can no longer be thought of in oppositional, mutually exclusive terms. They are united in an effort to push the theoretical limits of ecocriticism towards a more rigorous investigation of nature's critical potential as a concept that challenges modern culture's philosophical assumptions, epistemological convictions, aesthetic principles, and ethical imperatives. This volume offers scholars and students of literature, culture, history, philosophy, and linguistics new insights into the ongoing transformation of ecocriticism into an innovative force in international and interdisciplinary literary and cultural studies.

Contents:

Catrin GERSDORF and Sylvia MAYER: Nature in literary and cultural studies: defining the subject of ecocriticism - an introduction

Theorizing the nature of ecocriticism

Louise WESTLING: Literature, the environment, and the question of the posthuman

Hubert ZAPF: The state of ecocriticism and the function of literature as cultural ecology

Christa GREWE-VOLPP: Nature "out there" and as "a social player": some basic consequences for a literary ecocritical analysis

Simone Birgitt HARTMANN: Feminist and postcolonial perspectives on ecocriticism in a Canadian context: toward a 'situated' literary theory and practice of ecofeminism and environmental justice

Sylvia MAYER: Literary studies, ecofeminism and environmentalist knowledge production in the humanities

Locating nature in language, literature, and everday culture

Beatrix BUSSE: (Historical) ecolinguistics and literary analysis

Hannes BERGTHALLER: "Trees are what everyone needs:" The Lorax , anthropocentrism, and the problem of mimesis

Ursula K. HEISE: Afterglow: Chernobyl and the everyday

Christine GERHARDT: "Syllabled to us for names": Native American echoes in Walt Whitman's green poetics

Tonia L. PAYNE: "We are dirt: we are earth": Ursula Le Guin and the problem of extraterrestrialism

Christian Krug: Virtual tourism: the consumption of natural and digital environments

Andrew A. LISTON: Gertrud Leutenegger's metanoic narrative Kontinent

Nature, literature and the space of the national

Irena RAGAIŠIENĖ: Nature/place, memory, and identity in the poetry of Lithuanian émigré Danutė Paškevičiūtė

Colin RIORDAN: German literature, nature and modernity before 1914

Caroline DELPH: Nature and nationalism in the writings of Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769-1860)

Simon MEACHER: It was shown in the way they stepped in the woods: nature in Hermann Löns and Edward Thomas

Katharine GRIFFITHS: The aesthetic appreciation of nature as a reaction to dictatorship: disjunction and dissidence in the Inner Emigration

Axel GOODBODY: From egocentrism to ecocentrism: nature and morality in German writing in the 1980s

Ethics of nature

Patrick D. MURPHY: Grounding anotherness and answerability through allonational ecoliterature formations

Thomas CLAVIEZ: Ecology as moral stand(s): environmental ethics, Western moral philosophy, and the problem of the Other

Timo MARAN: Where do your borders lie? Reflections on the semiotical ethics of nature

Notes on contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

" ... extended versions of a selection of papers given at a conference at the University of Munster (Germany) in March 2004"--P. 13.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

94-012-0355-5

1-4294-5643-4

OCLC:

85845076

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401203555 DOI