Material ecocriticism

Material ecocriticism / edited by Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann.

Material Ecocriticism offers new ways to analyze language and reality, human and nonhuman life, mind and matter, without falling into well-worn paths of thinking. Bringing ecocriticism closer to the material turn, the contributions to this landmark volume focus on material forces and substances, the...

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Other Authors: Iovino, Serenella, 1971- (Editor), Oppermann, Serpil (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Ecocriticism.
Ecology in literature.
Materialism.
materialism (philosophical movement)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
NATURE > Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Ecocriticism
Ecology in literature
Materialism
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Table of Contents:
  • Storied matter / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
  • Stories come to matter / Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann
  • From ecological postmodernism to material ecocriticism : creative materiality and narrative agency / Serpil Oppermann
  • Limits of agency : notes on the material turn from a systems-theoretical perspective / Hannes Bergthaller
  • Creative matter and creative mind : cultural econology and literary creativity / Hubert Zapf
  • Natural play, natural metaphor, and natural stories : biosemiotic realism / Wendy Wheeler
  • The ecology of colors : Goethe's materialist optics and ecological posthumanism / Heather I. Sullivan
  • Bodies of Naples : stories, matter, and the landscapes of porosity / Serenella Iovino
  • When it rains / Lowell Duckert
  • Painful material realities, tragedy, ecophobia / Simon C. Estok
  • Semiotization of matter : a hybrid zone between biosemiotics and material ecocriticsm / Timo Maran
  • Pro/polis : three forays into the political lives of bees / Catriona Sandilands
  • Excremental ecocriticism and the global sanitation crisis / Dana Phillips
  • Oceanic origins, plastic activism, and new materialism at sea / Stacy Alaimo
  • Meditations on natural worlds, disabled bodies, and a politics of cure / Eli Clare
  • Corporeal fieldwork and risky art : Peter Goin and the making of Nuclear landscapes / Cheryll Glotfelty
  • Of material sympathies, Paraclesus, and Whitman / Jane Bennett
  • Source of life : Avatar, Amazonia, and an ecology of selves / Joni Adamson
  • The liminal space between things : epiphany and the physical / Timothy Morton
  • Spirits that matter : pathways toward a rematerialization of religion and spirituality / Kate Rigby
  • Mindful new materialisms : Buddhist roots for material ecocriticsm's flourishing / Greta Gaard
  • The commonwealth of breath / David Abram.

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