The twenty-first century has seen an increased awareness of the forms of environmental destruction that cannot immediately be seen, localised 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.
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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
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Clark is at his strongest when walking the reader through his multi-scalar examples of literary criticism, which are a highlight of the book. This book will be a particular asset to those teaching and researching eco-criticism.
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The first book to explore how environmental crisis challenges existing modes of critical theory and ways of reading literature.
A major new exploration of how critical theory can provide new approaches to confronting environmental crisis
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781472505736
Publisert
2015-09-24
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Vekt
310 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
232
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