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Critical and primary sources
Critical and primary sources. ^A1435593
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volume 1. Field genealogies--networks and trajectories -- volume 2. Why literature? Literature as ecological force -- volume 3. Interdisciplinary conversations--from ecocriticism to post-humanities -- volume 4. Field contexts. |
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Volume 1 : Field genealogies-networks and trajectories. Acknowledgements ; General introduction ; Volume introduction : field genealogies -- Part I, A word for nature. Living with the weather / Jonathan Bate ; Toxic discourse / Lawrence Buell ; Melancholy natures, queer ecologies / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands ; Message of the trees : recognizing ecological burden and beauty / Kimberly Ruffin ; Meditations on natural worlds, disabled bodies, and a politics of cure / Eli Clare ; Landscape, history, and the Pueblo imagination / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Part 2, Decolonizing the archive. A place to see : self-representation and resistance in Leslie Marmon Silko's "Almanac of the Dead" / Joni Adamson ; Surfing the second waves : Amitav Ghosh's Tide Country / Pablo Mukherjee ; Neoliberalism, slow violence, and the environmental picaresque / Rob Nixon ; Dispossession, postcolonial ecocriticism, and Doris Lessing's "The Grass is Singing" / Cajetan Iheka ; Looking into extinction / Deborah Bird Rose ; On the importance of a date, or decolonizing the Anthropocene / Heather Davis and Zoe Todd -- Part III, Materialisms old and new. Edible matter / Jane Bennett ; Viscous porosity : witnessing Katrina / Nancy Tuana ; Shakespeare's globe and England's woods / Vin Nardizzi ; The aesthetics of petroleum, after "Oil!" / Stephanie LeMenager ; Stories of stone : introduction / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen ; Has the queer ever been human? / Dana Luciano and Mel Y. Chen. |
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Volume 2 : Why literature? Literature as ecological force. Acknowledgements ; Volume introduction : why literature? -- Part I, Field visions. Introduction : Literary studies in an age of environmental crisis / Cheryll Glotfelty ; Ecology, epistemology, and empiricism / Robert N. Watson ; Introduction : stories come to matter / Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann ; Petrofiction : The oil encounter and the novel / Amitav Ghosh ; Why Latinx environmentalisms? / Sarah D. Wald, David J. Vázquez, Pricilla Solis Ybarra, and Sarah Jaquette Ray ; Four problems, four directions for environmental humanities : toward critical posthumanities for the Anthropocene / Astrida Neimanis, Cecilia Åsberg, and Johan Hedrén -- Part II Exemplary readings. Climate change and contemporary modernist poetry / Richard Kerridge ; Ecomelancholia : slavery, war, and Black ecological imaginings / Jennifer James ; Heliotropes : solar ecologies and Pacific radiations / Elizabeth DeLoughrey ; Pacific-based Măori writers / Alice Te Punga Somerville ; Analyzing "Satoyama" : a rural environment, landscape, and zone / Yuki Masami ; Latin American literature at the rise of environmentalism : urban ecological thinking in José Maria Arguedas's "The Foxes" / Jorge Marcone -- Part III, An Appendix of primary texts. The vision of Kitche Manitou / Basil Johnston (Ojibwe) ; From "The Holy Bible" ; From "Georgics" / Virgil ; From "The Tempest" / William Shakespeare ; Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a tour. July 13, 1798 / William Wordsworth ; The Robin's Nest / John Clare ; Walking / Henry David Thoreau ; The Author's Childhood / Frederick Douglass ; The Garden-Party / Katherine Mansfield ; The Chosen Vessel / Barbara Baynton ; The Wild Land / Willa Cather ; The Negro Speaks of Rivers / Langston Hughes ; Blindness / Tŏge Sankichi ; Carmel Point / Robinson Jeffers ; Morning Song / Sylvia Plath ; Another Spring / Denise Levertov ; At the North Point Car Ferry / Leung Ping-kwan ; Bog Queen / Seamus Heaney ; Butterflies / Patricia Grace ; What the Tapster Saw / Ben Okri ; Da Last Squid / Joe Balaz ; mulberry fields / Lucille Clifton ; The death of the last white male / Ruth Ozeki ; Borrowed waters : the Sea around us, the Sea within Us / Rita Wong. |
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Volume 3 : Interdisciplinary conversations - from ecocriticism to post-humanities. Acknowledgements ; Volume introduction : Interdisciplinary conversations -- Part I, Conversations with the natural sciences : from consilience to transcorporeality. Thinking like a mountain / Aldo Leopold ; Consilience among the great branches of learning / Edward O. Wilson ; Ecocriticism and science : toward consilience? / Glen A. Love ; Lost dogs, last birds, and listed species: cultures of extinction / Ursula K. Heise ; Narratives of race and indigeneity in the genographic project / Kim Tallbear ; Situated knowledges : the science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective / Donna Haraway ; Deviant agents : the science, culture, and politics of multiple chemical sensitivity / Stacy Alaimo -- Part II, Conversations with philosophy: from Phenomenology to OOO. Limits of the flesh : the role of reflection in David Abram's Ecophenomenlogy / Ted Toadvine ; Between the body and the breathing earth : a reply to Ted Toadvine / Daniel Abram ; A foray into the worlds of animals and humans / Jakob von Uexküll ; Before the law : animals in a biopolitcal context / Cary Wolfe ; Tasteless : towards a food-based approach to death / Val Plumwood ; Poisoned ground : art and philosophy in the time of hyperobjects / Timothy Morton ; Framing the end of the species: images without bodies / Claire Colebrook -- Part III, Conversations with media studies : from cinema to critical infrastructure. Hunting with the camera / Gregg Mitman ; Decolonizing ecomedia / Sean Cubitt ; New materialism as media theory : medianatures and dirty matter / Jussi Parikka ; "Warning" Do Not Dig" : negotiating the visibililty of critical infrastructures / Nicole Starosielski ; Games as environmental texts / Alenda Y. Chang ; Dawnland voices 2.0 : sovereignty and sustainability online / Siobhan Senier. |
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Volume 4 : Field contents. Acknowledgements ; Volume introduction : field contents -- Part I, Breaking ground : foundational influences from beyond the field. The question concerning technology / Martin Heidegger ; Why look at animals? / John Berger ; The animal that therefore I am (more to follow) / Jacques Derrida ; Department of the Interior / Linda Hogan ; The trouble with wilderness; or getting back to the wrong nature / William Cronon ; Crisis / Bruno Latour -- Part II, Justice matters. Environmental racism revisited / Robert Bullard ; Environmental justice anthropocene narratives : sweet art, recognition, and representation / Julie Sze ; Is it colonial déjà vu? Indigenous peoples and climate injustice / Kyle Powys Whyte ; Nature as community : the convergence of environment and social justice / Giovanna Di Chiro ; The environmentalism of the poor / Ramachandra Guha and J. Martinez-Alier ; The black beach / Édouard Glissant ; Game lodges and leisure colonialists : caught in the process of becoming / Njabulo S. Ndebele -- Part III, Writing activism. And no birds sing / Rachel Carson ; Women and the gendered politics of food / Vandana Shiva ; Politics, identity, and the future of environmentalism / Laura Pulido ; Traditional ecological knowledge and environmental futures / Winona LaDuke ; The overall goal, values and projects / Wangari Maathai ; The Shell-B.P. Role / Ken Saro-Wiwa. |
| Abstract |
"Bringing together 100 essential critical articles across 4 volumes, Literature and the Environment: Critical and Primary Sources is a comprehensive collection of the most important academic writings on ecocriticism and literature's engagement with environmental crisis. With texts by key scholars, creative writers and activists, the articles in these four volumes follow the development and history of environmental criticism, as well as interdisciplinary conversations with contemporary philosophy and media studies. Literature and the Environment includes work by such writers as: Stacy Alaimo, Jonathan Bate, Jacques Derrida, Ursula K. Heise, Richard Kerridge, Bruno Latour, Rob Nixon, Ken Saro-Wiwa, William Shakespeare, Leslie Marmon Silko, Henry David Thoreau, E.O. Wilson, Cary Wolfe and William Wordsworth"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 2020038467 |
| ISBN | 9781350026315 set hardcover |
| ISBN | 135002631X set hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781350025172 volume 1 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1350025178 volume 1 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781350025578 volume 2 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1350025577 volume 2 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781350025905 volume 3 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1350025909 volume 3 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781350026285 volume 4 hardcover |
| ISBN | 135002628X volume 4 hardcover |
