Ecocriticism on the edge : the anthropocene as a threshold concept / Timothy Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Timothy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy in literature.

Environmental protection in literature.

Global environmental change--Social aspects.

Global environmental change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The twenty-first century has seen an increased awareness of the forms of environmental destruction that cannot immediately be seen, localized or, by some, even acknowledged. Ecocriticism on the Edge explores the possibility of a new mode of critical practice, one fully engaged with the destructive force of the planetary environmental crisis. Timothy Clark argues that, in literary and cultural criticism, the "Anthropocene", which names the epoch in which human impacts on the planet's ecological systems reach a dangerous limit, also represents a threshold at which modes of interpretation that once seemed sufficient or progressive become, in this new counterintuitive context, inadequate or even latently destructive. The book includes analyses of literary works, including texts by Paule Marshall, Gary Snyder, Ben Okri, Henry Lawson, Lorrie Moore and Raymond Carver."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Preface

Chapter One: The Anthropocene

Questions of Definition

Chapter Two: Imaging and Imagining the Whole Earth: The Terrestrial as Norm

Chapter Three: Emergent Unreadability: Rereading a Lyric by Gary Snyder

Chapter Four: Scale Framing

Chapter Five: Scale Framing: A Reading

Chapter Six: Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Dehumanizing Reading: An Australian Test-Case

Chapter Seven: Anthropocene Disorder

Chapter Eight: Denial: A Reading

Chapter Nine: The Tragedy that Climate Change is not 'Interesting'

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472506702

9781474246309

1474246303

9781472506481

1472506480

9781474217484

1474217486

OCLC:

910102763