| Description |
xi, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
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Literature Now |
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Literature Now.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-293) and index. |
| Summary |
"Establishes that we cannot comprehend environmental and medical dilemmas through data alone and must call on the sometimes surprising emotions that literary metaphors, tropes, and narratives deploy."--Publishers website |
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"The 1970s brought a new understanding of the biological and intellectual impact of environmental crises on human beings. As efforts to prevent ecological and bodily injury aligned, a new literature of sickness emerged. "Ecosickness fiction" imaginatively rethinks the link between these forms of threat and the sick body to bring readers to environmental consciousness. Tracing the development of ecosickness through a compelling archive of contemporary U.S. novels and memoirs, Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction establishes that we cannot comprehend environmental and medical dilemmas through data alone and must call on the sometimes surprising emotions that literary metaphors, tropes, and narratives deploy. In chapters on David Foster Wallace, Richard Powers, Leslie Marmon Silko, Marge Piercy, Jan Zita Grover, and David Wojnarowicz, Heather Houser shows how narrative affects such as wonder and disgust organize perception of an endangered world and orient us ethically toward it." -- Publisher's description. |
| Language |
Text in English. |
| Contents |
1 Ecosickness -- Sickness in a Technoscientific Age 8 -- Life, Ethics, and Action 12 -- Ecosickness in the Field 19 -- Outline of the Book 27 -- 2 AIDS Memoirs Out of the City: Discordant Natures 31 -- Prologue 31 -- Contested Natures 39 -- North Enough's "Difficult Beauties" 46 -- The "Con" in Close to the Knives 55 -- Discordant Feelings, Suspicious Stances 65 -- Discord in Activism 72 -- 3 Richard Powers's Strange Wonder 77 -- "Weirdly Alive" with Wonder 81 -- "The Ordinary by Another Name" 93 -- "Struggling with Complex Interactions" 100 -- "The Ethic of Tending" 109 -- 4 Infinite Jest's Environmental Case for Disgust 117 -- Detached Dispositions 124 -- "Experial" Ambitions 130 -- Body Building 139 -- Affective Itineraries 145 -- How to Do Things with Disgust 152 -- 5 The Anxiety of Intervention in Leslie Marmon Silko and Marge Piercy 167 -- Disrupting the "Pattern of Disease" 170 -- "A Single Configuration" of Land and Body 175 -- Iniquitous Interventions 185 -- Anxious Apocalypse 195 -- Squirming and Trembling 208. |
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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Environmentalism in literature.
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Diseases in literature.
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Ecocriticism.
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American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
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Diseases in literature. (OCoLC)fst00895210
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Ecocriticism. (OCoLC)fst00901428
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Environmentalism in literature. (OCoLC)fst01903139
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| ISBN |
9780231165143 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0231165145 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780231537360 (e-book) |
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