Handbook of ecocriticism and cultural ecology [online] / Hubert Zapf

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ZAPF, Hubert

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TextLanguage: English Series: Handbooks of English and American StudiesPublication details: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2016Description: 1 resursă online (725 p.)ISBN:

9783110314595

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Frontmatter Editors’ Preface Martin Middeke, Gabriele Rippl and Hubert Zapf Contents 0. Introduction Hubert Zapf

PART I. ECOCRITICAL THEORIES OF CULTURE AND LITERATURE 1. The Lightest Burden: The Aesthetic Abductions of Biosemiotics Wendy Wheeler 2. Earth’s Poesy: Romantic Poetics, Natural Philosophy, and Biosemiotics Kate Rigby 3. Merleau-Ponty and the Eco-Literary Imaginary Louise Westling 4. Ecology and Immanence Hanjo Berressem 5. Paradox as Bedrock: Social Systems Theory and the Ungrounding of Literary Environmentalism in Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire Hannes Bergthaller 6. Aesthetics of Nature – A Philosophical Perspective Gernot Böhme 7. Cultural Ecology of Literature – Literature as Cultural Ecology Hubert Zapf

PART II. ISSUES AND DIRECTIONS OF CONTEMPORARY ECOCRITICISM 8. Neither the ‘Simple Backward Look’ nor the ‘Simple Progressive Thrust’: Ecocriticism and the Politics of Prosperity Kate Soper 9. Political Ecology: Nature, Democracy, and American Literary Culture Catrin Gersdorf 10. Ecocriticism and Postcolonial Studies Mita Banerjee 11. Ecofeminisms, the Toxic Body, and Linda Hogan’s Power Christa Grewe-Volpp 12. Ecocriticism, Place Studies, and Colm Tóibín’s “A Long Winter”: A Biocultural Perspective Nancy Easterlin 13. Animal Studies: Kafka’s Animal Stories Axel Goodbody 14. From Material to Posthuman Ecocriticism: Hybridity, Stories, Natures Serpil Oppermann 15. Conciliation and Consilience: Climate Change in Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behaviour Greg Garrard

PART III. BETWEEN THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL: CULTURAL DIVERSITY VS. ECO-COSMOPOLITANISM 16. Narrative Scholarship as an American Contribution to Global Ecocriticism Scott Slovic 17. Ecology and Life Writing in Transnational and Transcultural Perspective Alfred Hornung 18. From Thomas Mann to Porto Marghera: Material Ecocriticism, Literary Interpretation, and Death in Venice Serenella Iovino 19. Mediterranean Ecocriticism: The Sea in the Middle Elena Past 20. Eco- and Geo- Approaches in French and Francophone Literary Studies Rachel Bouvet and Stephanie Posthumus 21. Latin American Environmental Discourses, Indigenous Ecological Consciousness and the Problem of ‘Authentic’ Native Identities Elmar Schmidt 22. Women Writing Nature in the Global South: New Forest Texts from Fractured Indian Forests Swarnalatha Rangarajan 23. Ecocultures and the African Literary Tradition Ogaga Okuyade 24. Ecosophy and Ecoaesthetics: A Chinese Perspective Cheng Xiangzhan 25. World Risk Society and Ecoglobalism: Risk, Literature, and the Anthropocene Sylvia Mayer

PART IV. ECOLOGIES OF LITERARY COMMUNICATION 26. Cultural Ecology and the Teaching of Literature Sieglinde Grimm and Berbeli Wanning 27. Environmental Narrative, Embodiment, and Emotion Alexa Weik von Mossner 28. Beyond the Wasteland: An Ecocritical Reading of Modernist Trauma Literature Katharina Donn 29. Literary Place and Cultural Memory Christopher Schliephake 30. The Ecology of Literary Chronotopes Timo Müller 31. Cultural Ecology and Literary Translation Erik Redling

PART V. GENRE AND MEDIA ECOLOGIES 32. PANORAMA: Three Ecocinematic Territories Scott MacDonald 33. Ecomusicology from Poetic to Practical Aaron S. Allen 34. Within and Beyond the Art World: Environmentalist Criticism of Visual Art Suzaan Boettger Index of Subjects Index of Names List of Contributors

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Index

Frontmatter Editors’ Preface
Martin Middeke, Gabriele Rippl and Hubert Zapf Contents 0. Introduction
Hubert Zapf

PART I. ECOCRITICAL THEORIES OF CULTURE AND LITERATURE 1. The Lightest Burden: The Aesthetic Abductions of Biosemiotics
Wendy Wheeler 2. Earth’s Poesy: Romantic Poetics, Natural Philosophy, and Biosemiotics
Kate Rigby 3. Merleau-Ponty and the Eco-Literary Imaginary
Louise Westling 4. Ecology and Immanence
Hanjo Berressem 5. Paradox as Bedrock: Social Systems Theory and the Ungrounding of Literary Environmentalism in Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire
Hannes Bergthaller 6. Aesthetics of Nature – A Philosophical Perspective
Gernot Böhme 7. Cultural Ecology of Literature – Literature as Cultural Ecology
Hubert Zapf

PART II. ISSUES AND DIRECTIONS OF CONTEMPORARY ECOCRITICISM 8. Neither the ‘Simple Backward Look’ nor the ‘Simple Progressive Thrust’: Ecocriticism and the Politics of Prosperity
Kate Soper 9. Political Ecology: Nature, Democracy, and American Literary Culture
Catrin Gersdorf 10. Ecocriticism and Postcolonial Studies
Mita Banerjee 11. Ecofeminisms, the Toxic Body, and Linda Hogan’s Power
Christa Grewe-Volpp 12. Ecocriticism, Place Studies, and Colm Tóibín’s “A Long Winter”: A Biocultural Perspective
Nancy Easterlin 13. Animal Studies: Kafka’s Animal Stories
Axel Goodbody 14. From Material to Posthuman Ecocriticism: Hybridity, Stories, Natures
Serpil Oppermann 15. Conciliation and Consilience: Climate Change in Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behaviour
Greg Garrard

PART III. BETWEEN THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL: CULTURAL DIVERSITY VS. ECO-COSMOPOLITANISM 16. Narrative Scholarship as an American Contribution to Global Ecocriticism
Scott Slovic 17. Ecology and Life Writing in Transnational and Transcultural Perspective
Alfred Hornung 18. From Thomas Mann to Porto Marghera: Material Ecocriticism, Literary Interpretation, and Death in Venice
Serenella Iovino 19. Mediterranean Ecocriticism: The Sea in the Middle
Elena Past 20. Eco- and Geo- Approaches in French and Francophone Literary Studies
Rachel Bouvet and Stephanie Posthumus 21. Latin American Environmental Discourses, Indigenous Ecological Consciousness and the Problem of ‘Authentic’ Native Identities
Elmar Schmidt 22. Women Writing Nature in the Global South: New Forest Texts from Fractured Indian Forests
Swarnalatha Rangarajan 23. Ecocultures and the African Literary Tradition
Ogaga Okuyade 24. Ecosophy and Ecoaesthetics: A Chinese Perspective
Cheng Xiangzhan 25. World Risk Society and Ecoglobalism: Risk, Literature, and the Anthropocene
Sylvia Mayer

PART IV. ECOLOGIES OF LITERARY COMMUNICATION 26. Cultural Ecology and the Teaching of Literature
Sieglinde Grimm and Berbeli Wanning 27. Environmental Narrative, Embodiment, and Emotion
Alexa Weik von Mossner 28. Beyond the Wasteland: An Ecocritical Reading of Modernist Trauma Literature
Katharina Donn 29. Literary Place and Cultural Memory
Christopher Schliephake 30. The Ecology of Literary Chronotopes
Timo Müller 31. Cultural Ecology and Literary Translation
Erik Redling

PART V. GENRE AND MEDIA ECOLOGIES 32. PANORAMA: Three Ecocinematic Territories
Scott MacDonald 33. Ecomusicology from Poetic to Practical
Aaron S. Allen 34. Within and Beyond the Art World: Environmentalist Criticism of Visual Art
Suzaan Boettger Index of Subjects Index of Names List of Contributors

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