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xvi, 382 pages ; 26 cm. |
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Routledge literature readers |
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Routledge literature readers.
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| Summary |
"Ecocriticism: The Essential Reader charts the growth of this important field. The first-wave ecocriticism section focuses on key readings from the 1960s to the 1990s. The second-wave ecocriticism section goes on to consider a range of exciting contemporary trends, including environmental justice, aesthetics and philosophy, and globalization. Readings include the work of:Raymond WilliamsJonathan BateTimothy MortonUrsula HeiseLawrence BuellKate SoperCary Wolfeand Kate Rigby. Containing seminal, representative, and contemporary work in the field, this volume and the editorial commentary is designed for use on both undergraduate and postgraduate ecocritical literature courses"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"Ecocriticism: The Essential Reader Ecocriticism: The Essential Reader charts the growth of this important field. The first-wave Ecocriticism section focuses on key readings from the 1960s to the 1990s. The second-wave Ecocriticism section goes on to consider a range of exciting contemporary trends, including environmental justice, aesthetics and philosophy, and globalization. Readings include the work of: - Raymond Williams - Jonathan Bate - Timothy Morton - Ursula Heise - Lawrence Buell - Kate Soper - Cary Wolfe - Kate Rigby. Containing seminal, representative, and contemporary work in the field, this volume and the editorial commentary is designed for use on both undergraduate and postgraduate ecocritical literature courses"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
First-wave ecocriticism. Shakespeare's American fable / Leo Marx ; Nature as female / Carolyn Merchant ; The country and the city / Raymond Williams ; The historical roots of our ecological crisis / Lynn White, Jr. ; The deep ecological movement : some philosophical aspects ; Ecology and man : a viewpoint / Paul Shepard ; The place, the region, and the commons / Gary Snyder ; The economy of nature / Jonathan Bate ; Representing the environment / Lawrence Buell ; The trouble with wilderness : or, getting back to the wrong nature / William Cronon ; Literary studies in an age of environmental crisis / Cheryll Glotfelty -- Second-wave ecocriticism. Environmental justice politics, poetics, and pedagogy / Joni Adamson, Mei Mei Evans, and Rachel Stein ; Emerging models of materiality in feminist theory / Stacy Alaimo and Susan Hekman ; Race, class, and the politics of place / Robert D. Bullard ; A genealogy of queer ecologies / Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands and Bruce Erickson ; The hitchhiker's guide to postcolonial ecocriticism : literature, animals, environment / Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin ; Environmentalism and postcolonialism / Rob Nixon ; Natural universals and the global scale / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing / What is to be done? Political ecology! / Bruno Latour ; Imagining ecology without nature / Timothy Morton ; Expostulations and replies / Dana Phillips ; The discourses of nature / Kate Soper ; Ecopolitics/Ecocriticism / Gabriel Egan ; Reading the otherworld environmentally / Alfred K. Siewers ; Troping the tropics and aestheticizing labor / Beth Tobin ; Ecology, eopistemology, and empiricism / Robert N. Watson ; The climate of history : four theses / Dipesh Chakrabarty ; The carrier bag theory of fiction / Ursula K. Le Guin ; Writing after nature / Kate Rigby. |
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Ecocriticism.
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Ecology in literature.
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Environmental protection in literature.
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Ecocriticism. (OCoLC)fst00901428
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Ecology in literature. (OCoLC)fst00901557
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Environmental protection in literature. (OCoLC)fst00913429
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| Genre/Form |
Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
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Essays.
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| Added Author |
Hiltner, Ken, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780415508599 (hardback) |
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0415508592 (hardback) |
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9780415508605 (paperback) |
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0415508606 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
9780415508605 |
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40023903317 |
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