New international voices in ecocriticism /
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| Imprint: | Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Lexington Books, [2015] |
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| Description: | ix, 217 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ecocritical theory and practice Ecocritical theory and practice. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10127656 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: New International Voices in Ecocriticism
- I. New Ecocritical Trends
- 1. Selves at the Fringes: Expanding Material Ecocriticism
- 2. Global Subcultural Bohernianism: The Prospect of Postlocal Ecocriticism in Tim Winton's Breath
- 3. "What Is It about You ... That So Irritates Me?": Northern Exposure's Sustainable Feeling
- 4. Bang Your Head and Save the Planet: Gothic Ecocriticism
- II. Nature and Human Experience
- 5. Un-natural Ecopoetics: Natural/Cultural Intersections in Poetic Language and Form
- 6. "There's No Place Like 'Home'": Susanna Moodie, Shelter Writing, and Dwelling on the Earth
- 7. Against Ecological Kitsch: Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage Project
- 8. Neo-Aranyakas: An Enquiry into Mahasweta Devi's Forest Fiction
- 9. Ecoerotic Imaginations in Early Modernity and Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure
- III. Human-Nonhuman Relations
- 10. What Are We? The Human Animal in Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape
- 11. Familiar Animals: The Question of Human-Animal Relationships in Lauren Beukes's Zoo City
- 12. Dismantling "Conceptual Straitjackets" in Peter Dickinson's Eva
- Afterword
- Index
- Contributors
