Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology / Hubert Zapf.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zapf, Hubert, editor.

Series:

Handbooks of English and American Studies

Handbooks of English and American Studies ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecocriticism.

Ecology in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (726 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ecocriticism has emerged as one of the most fascinating and rapidly growing fields of recent literary and cultural studies. From its regional origins in late-twentieth-century Anglo-American academia, it has become a worldwide phenomenon, which involves a decidedly transdisciplinary and transnational paradigm that promises to return a new sense of relevance to research and teaching in the humanities. A distinctive feature of the present handbook in comparison with other survey volumes is the combination of ecocriticism with cultural ecology, reflecting an emphasis on the cultural transformation of ecological processes and on the crucial role of literature, art, and other forms of cultural creativity for the evolution of societies towards sustainable futures. In state-of-the-art contributions by leading international scholars in the field, this handbook maps some of the most important developments in contemporary ecocritical thought. It introduces key theoretical concepts, issues, and directions of ecocriticism and cultural ecology and demonstrates their relevance for the analysis of texts and other cultural phenomena.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Editors' Preface / Middeke, Martin / Rippl, Gabriele / Zapf, Hubert

Contents

0. Introduction / Zapf, Hubert

Part I. Ecocritical Theories of Culture and Literature

1. The Lightest Burden: The Aesthetic Abductions of Biosemiotics / Wheeler, Wendy

2. Earth's Poesy: Romantic Poetics, Natural Philosophy, and Biosemiotics / Rigby, Kate

3. Merleau-Ponty and the Eco-Literary Imaginary / Westling, Louise

4. Ecology and Immanence / Berressem, Hanjo

5. Paradox as Bedrock: Social Systems Theory and the Ungrounding of Literary Environmentalism in Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire / Bergthaller, Hannes

6. Aesthetics of Nature - A Philosophical Perspective / Böhme, Gernot

7. Cultural Ecology of Literature - Literature as Cultural Ecology / Zapf, Hubert

Part II. Issues and Directions of Contemporary Ecocriticism

8. Neither the 'Simple Backward Look' nor the 'Simple Progressive Thrust': Ecocriticism and the Politics of Prosperity / Soper, Kate

9. Political Ecology: Nature, Democracy, and American Literary Culture / Gersdorf, Catrin

10. Ecocriticism and Postcolonial Studies / Banerjee, Mita

11. Ecofeminisms, the Toxic Body, and Linda Hogan's Power / Grewe-Volpp, Christa

12. Ecocriticism, Place Studies, and Colm Tóibín's "A Long Winter": A Biocultural Perspective / Easterlin, Nancy

13. Animal Studies: Kafka's Animal Stories / Goodbody, Axel

14. From Material to Posthuman Ecocriticism: Hybridity, Stories, Natures / Oppermann, Serpil

15. Conciliation and Consilience: Climate Change in Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behaviour / Garrard, Greg

Part III. Between the Local and the Global: Cultural Diversity vs. Eco-Cosmopolitanism

16. Narrative Scholarship as an American Contribution to Global Ecocriticism / Slovic, Scott

17. Ecology and Life Writing in Transnational and Transcultural Perspective / Hornung, Alfred

18. From Thomas Mann to Porto Marghera: Material Ecocriticism, Literary Interpretation, and Death in Venice / Iovino, Serenella

19. Mediterranean Ecocriticism: The Sea in the Middle / Past, Elena

20. Eco- and Geo- Approaches in French and Francophone Literary Studies / Bouvet, Rachel / Posthumus, Stephanie

21. Latin American Environmental Discourses, Indigenous Ecological Consciousness and the Problem of 'Authentic' Native Identities / Schmidt, Elmar

22. Women Writing Nature in the Global South: New Forest Texts from Fractured Indian Forests / Rangarajan, Swarnalatha

23. Ecocultures and the African Literary Tradition / Okuyade, Ogaga

24. Ecosophy and Ecoaesthetics: A Chinese Perspective / Xiangzhan, Cheng

25. World Risk Society and Ecoglobalism: Risk, Literature, and the Anthropocene / Mayer, Sylvia

Part IV. Ecologies of Literary Communication

26. Cultural Ecology and the Teaching of Literature / Grimm, Sieglinde / Wanning, Berbeli

27. Environmental Narrative, Embodiment, and Emotion / Mossner, Alexa Weik von

28. Beyond the Wasteland: An Ecocritical Reading of Modernist Trauma Literature / Donn, Katharina

29. Literary Place and Cultural Memory / Schliephake, Christopher

30. The Ecology of Literary Chronotopes / Müller, Timo

31. Cultural Ecology and Literary Translation / Redling, Erik

Part V. Genre and Media Ecologies

32. PANORAMA: Three Ecocinematic Territories / MacDonald, Scott

33. Ecomusicology from Poetic to Practical / Allen, Aaron S.

34. Within and Beyond the Art World: Environmentalist Criticism of Visual Art / Boettger, Suzaan

Index of Subjects

Index of Names

List of Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 16. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

3-11-031459-2

OCLC:

951149385