The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment / Timothy Clark.
The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment / Timothy Clark.
The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment / Timothy Clark.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011, ©2011.
Date
2011, ©2011.
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N809.93355/33
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English
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Physical content
xiv, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Preface; Introduction: the challenge; Part I. Romantic and Anti-Romantic: 1. Old World Romanticism; 2. New World Romanticism; 3. Genre and the ethics of nonfiction; 4. Language beyond the human?; 5. The inherent violence of Western thought?; 6. Posthumanism and the 'end of nature'; Part II. The Boun...
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Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011, ©2011.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2011, ©2011.
Subjects
Subject Keywords
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
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"Environmental criticism is a relatively new discipline that brings the global problem of environmental crisis to the forefront of literary and cultural studies. This introduction defines what ecocriticism is and provides a set of conceptual tools to encourage students to look at the texts they're reading in a new way"-- Provided by publisher.
"The degrading environment of the planet is something that touches everyone. This book offers an introductory overview of literary and cultural criticism that concerns environmental crisis in some form. Both as a way of reading texts and as a theoretical approach to culture more generally, 'ecocriticism' is a varied and fast-changing set of practic...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment / Timothy Clark.
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Cambridge introductions to literature
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N809.93355/33
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0521720907 (paperback)
9780521896351 (hardback)
0521896355 (hardback)
9780521720908 (paperback)
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809.933553
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991005407589702626
