The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment /

"This authoritative collection of rigorous but accessible essays investigates the exciting new interdisciplinary field of environmental literary criticism"--

Bibliographic Details
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Series:Cambridge Companions to Literature
Subjects:
Ecocriticism.
Nature in literature.
Ecology in literature.
Environmental literature > History and criticism.
Online Access:http://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/29927/cover/9781107029927.jpg
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction Louise Westling; Part I. Foundations: 1. Pastoral, anti-pastoral, and post-pastoral
  • Terry Gifford; 2. The green otherworlds of early medieval literature
  • Alfred K. Siewers; 3. "Mapping by Words": the politics of land in Native American literature
  • Shari Huhndorf; Part II. Theories: 4. Ecocritical theory: romantic roots and impulses from twentieth-century European thinkers
  • Axel Goodbody; 5. Nature, post nature
  • Timothy Clark; 6. Violent affinities: sex, gender, and species in Cereus Blooms at Night
  • Catriona Sandilands; 7. The lure of the wilderness
  • Leo Mellor; Part III. Interdisciplinary Engagements: 8. "Tongues I'll hang on every tree": biosemiotics and the Book of Nature
  • Wendy Wheeler; 9. Sauntering along the border: Thoreau, Nabhan, and food politics
  • Janet Fiskio; 10. Animal studies, literary animals, and Yann Martel's Life of Pi
  • Sarah McFarland; Part IV. Major Directions: 11. Environmental justice, cosmopolitics, and climate change
  • Joni Adamson; 12. Systems and secrecy: postcolonial ecocriticism and Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome
  • Bonnie Roos and Alex Hunt; 13. Environmental crises and East Asian literatures: uncertain presents and futures
  • Karen Thornber; 14. Confronting catastrophe: ecocriticism in a warming world
  • Kate Rigby; 15. Ecocinema and the wildlife film
  • Stephen Rust.

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