The nature essay : ecocritical explorations

The nature essay : ecocritical explorations / by Simone Schröder.

"The Nature Essay: Ecocritical Explorations is the first extended study of a powerful literary form born out of the traditions of Enlightenment and Romanticism. It traces the varied stylistic paradigms of the 'nature essay' down to the present day. Reading essays as platforms for ecol...

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Main Author: Schröder, Simone, 1986- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019.
Series:Nature, Culture and Literature Ser.
Subjects:
Nature in literature.
Essay.
NATURE > Essays.
Essay
Nature in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro; The Nature Essay: Ecocritical Explorations; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Why the Nature Essay?; 2 Nature Writing Revisited: Method and Scope of This Study; 3 Roaming in an Interdisciplinary Field: Textual Corpus; 4 Outline of Content; 1 The Nature Essay and Genre; 1 Aspects of the Essay: Characteristics of Form and Function; 1.1 The Arrival of the Nature Essay around 1800; 2 Ways of Knowing and Making Sense of Nature; 2.1 Reflection, Description, Introspection
  • Communication of Knowledge in the Nature Essay
  • 2.2 Epistemes: Encyclopaedic-Scientific, Metaphysical-Spiritual, Ethical2 ""The Butterfly Collector"": The Encyclopaedic-Scientific Episteme; 1 The Aesthetics of Collecting and Connecting in Alexander von Humboldt's Ideen zu einer Physiognomik der Gewächse and Ernst Jünger's Subtile Jagden; 1.1 Alexander von Humboldt, Ideen zu einer Physiognomik der Gewächse; 1.2 Ernst Jünger, Subtile Jagden; 2 Measuring and Mapping Nature in the Nineteenth Century: Henry David Thoreau's the Pond in Winter and Alexander von Humboldt's Über die Steppen und Wüsten
  • 2.1 Alexander von Humboldt, Über die Steppen und Wüsten2.2 Henry David Thoreau's Survey of Walden Pond; 3 Data Prose
  • Contemporary Nature Essay Writing: Eliot Weinberger's Naked Mole-Rats, David Foster Wallace's Consider the Lobster, and Andreas Martin Widmann's Mind Gardens; 3.1 Eliot Weinberger, Naked Mole-Rats; 3.2 David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster; 3.3 The Natural World as Seen on Google: Andreas Martin Widmann, Mind Gardens; 3 ""Mother Nature's Son"": The Metaphysical-Spiritual Episteme
  • 1 Epiphanic Moments and Revelations: J.A. Baker's the Peregrine and Kathleen Jamie's Peregrines, Ospreys, Cranes1.1 J.A. Baker, The Peregrine; 1.2 Kathleen Jamie, Peregrines, Ospreys, Cranes; 2 The Dying Animal: Unsettling Human-Insect Relations through Elegy and Irony in Virginia Woolf's the Death of the Moth and Robert Musil's Das Fliegenpapier; 2.1 Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth; 2.2 Robert Musil, Das Fliegenpapier; 3 Tales of Transformation and Experience: Thoreau's Walden and Andreas Maier and Christine Büchner's Bullau; 3.1 Henry David Thoreau, Walden
  • 3.2 Andreas Maier and Christine Büchner, Bullau. Versuch über Natur4 ""Animal Farm"": The Ethical Episteme
  • Animal Ethics, Stories of Decline, and Writing Entangled Agencies; 1 Aesthetics of Empathy and Shock: Animal Ethics; 2 Stories of Decline: The Apocalypse Template; 3 Decentred Perspectives: Writing Entangled Agencies; Conclusion: Paradigm Shifts in the Nature Essay; 1 Panoramic Outlook; Bibliography; Index

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