Ecology and literatures in English : writing to save the planet / by Françoise Besson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Besson, Françoise, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Ecology in literature.

Environmental protection in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxx, 520 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.

Contents:

Foreword: The Butterfly, the Rhododendron and the Star

Introduction: Can Literature Save the Earth?

Part 1. Literary Genres as Environmental Action. The Theatre Serving Botany : Shakespeare's Gardens ; Romanticism as a Prelude to Ecology? ; Ecological Poetry and Ecopoetics ; Songs as Modern Time Popular Poems to Defend the Earth ; Detective Novels as an Ecological Warning

Part 2. Landscape Paintings Revealing Man's Relationship with the World. Maps of Biodiversity : Travel Writers' Perception of the Wilderness ; Writing the Colours of the World to Show the Beauty of Nature ; Comics as Ecological Allegory : Visual Imagination

Part 3. Imagination to Denounce Devastation. From Beech to Book and Vice Versa : Deforestation and Reforestation or the Weight of Texts ; Streams of Consciousness : The World's Water and Literary Warnings ; The Fantastic to Denounce the Devastation of Lands by the Exploitation of Resources ; Aboriginal Literature and the Way to Ecological Awareness

Part 4. Animals to Show Man the Way : Nature, Science and Imagination. Real and Imaginary Animals to Speak about Connections and Responsibility ; Children's Books to Educate Human Children through Animal and Nature Discovery ; Animals to Show Man the Way : The Animal Bond

Part 5. Literature as Resistance. Modern Theatre to Give Nature a Voice ; Native Languages as a Means of Resistance ; Literature to Answer the Violence to Lands and Men ; Literary Human Voices as the Translators of Nonhuman Voices.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781527518049

1527518043

OCLC:

1055685973

Publisher Number:

99983467984