Culture, creativity and environment : new environmentalist criticism /

Culture, Creativity and Environment: New Environmentalist Criticism is a collection of new work which examines the intersection between philosophy, literature, visual art, film and the environment at a time of environmental crisis. This book is unusual in the way in which the 'imaginative'...

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Other Authors: Becket, Fiona, 1962-, Gifford, Terry
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007
Series:Nature, culture and literature ; 05
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Table of Contents:
  • Journey to the heart of stone / Val Plumwood
  • What is (ecological) "nature"? : John Stuart Mill and the Victorian perspective / John Parham
  • Fear and flowers in Anya Gallaccio's Forest floor, Keep off the grass, Glaschu, and Repens / Judith Rugg
  • Like a ship to be tossed : Emersonian environmentalism and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping / Hannes Bergthaller
  • In the mirror of Middle Earth : Langland's use of the world as a book and what we can make of it / Gillian Rudd
  • Poodles and curs : eugenic comedy in Ibsen's An enemy of the people / Greg Garrard
  • The hunter as nature-lover : idyll, aggression, and ecology in the German animal stories of Otto Alscher / Axel Goodbody
  • Postcolonialism, ecocriticism, and the animal in recent Canadian fiction / Graham Huggan
  • Barry MacSweeney's moorland romance / Matthew Jarvis
  • Painting landscape : mediating dislocation / Judith Tucker
  • Modernity and the politics of place in Luis Trenker's Der verlorene Sohn / Guinevere Narraway
  • Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty : ecopoetics and the problem of humanism / Louise Westling