Waste and abundance. A special issue from substance : a review of theory and literary criticism. Issue 116, Volume 37, Number 2 : the measure of consumption / guest editors Susan Cahill, Emma Hegarty, Emilie Morin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hegarty, Emma, editor.

Cahill, Susan, editor.

Morin, Emilie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumption (Economics) in literature.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (154 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Madison, Wisconsin] : The University of Wisconsin Press, 2008.

Summary:

This collection of articles relates to a research area currently developing in the Humanities, which calls for philosophical and historical approaches to questions of sustainable development and waste management. The title of the issue reflects the central questions raised by all contributors: how are waste and abundance represented, how may we conceptualize these representations, and what ethical problems do they raise? Particular attention is paid to the cultural and moral factors that condition our attitudes to waste and the ways in which literature addresses the problematic relationship that binds production, consumption and waste to social and political systems.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 2, 2016).

ISBN:

9780299238230

0299238237