Environmental Awareness and the Design of Literature.

Environmental Awareness and the Design of Literature.

Environmental Awareness and the Design of Literature offers analyses of the diverse ways in which literature helps us escape the rigid frames of commonly assumed worldviews and modes of seeing. Literary works are endowed with a capacity not only to reflect or to mediate, but to resist our environmen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Specq, François
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : BRILL, 2016.
Series:Studies in environmental humanities.
Subjects:
Literature > Philosophy.
Environment (Aesthetics)
Nature in literature.
Human ecology in literature.
Human ecology in literature
Literature > Philosophy
Nature in literature
Literatur
Umweltbewusstsein
Ästhetische Wahrnehmung
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Table of Contents:
  • Environmental Awareness and the Design of Literature; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1 The World Outside in (Literature); 2 American Ecocriticism and the Ethics of Commitment; 3 Urban Ambivalences and Narrative Domains in Defoe's Novels; 4 Thoreau's Environmental Humanism; 5 Environmental Awareness and Geography: Reading Reclus Ecocritically?; 6 Ecological Awareness and the Democratic Consensus: John Muir's Post-Mortem Radicalism; 7 John C. Van Dyke, The Desert (1901): Under the Shadow of the Artificial Desert.
  • 8 Encountering the Sahara: Embodiment, Emotion, and Material Agency in Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky9 Dillard Dancing: An American Childhood; 10 On Duff Wilson: Community, Agribusiness and Environmental Testimony; Index.

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