Ecocriticism In The Modernist Imagination
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Author |
: Kelly Elizabeth Sultzbach |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 253 |
Release |
: 2016-08-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781316721049 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1316721043 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ecocriticism in the Modernist Imagination by : Kelly Elizabeth Sultzbach
Although modernism has traditionally been considered an art of cities, Ecocriticism in the Modernist Imagination claims a significant role for modernist texts in shaping environmental consciousness. Analyzing both canonical and lesser-known works of three key figures - E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, and W. H. Auden - Sultzbach suggests how the signal techniques of modernism encourage readers to become more responsive to the animate world and non-human minds. Understanding the way these writers represent nature's agency becomes central to interpreting the power dynamics of empire and gender, as well as experiments with language and creativity. The book acknowledges the longer pastoral tradition in literature, but also introduces readers to the newly expanding field of ecocriticism, including philosophies of embodiment and matter, queer ecocriticism, and animal studies. What emerges is a picture of green modernism that reifies our burgeoning awareness of what it means to be human within a larger living community.
Author |
: Kelly Sultzbach |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1316726444 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781316726440 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ecocriticism in the Modernist Imagination by : Kelly Sultzbach
"Although modernism has traditionally been considered an art of cities, Ecocriticism in the Modernist Imagination claims a significant role for modernist texts in shaping environmental consciousness. Analyzing both canonical and lesser-known works of three key figures--E.M Forster, Virginia Woolf, and W.H. Auden--Sultzbach suggests how the signal techniques of modernism encourage readers to become more responsive to the animate world and non-human minds. Understanding the way these writers represent nature's agency becomes central to interpreting the power dynamics of empire and gender, as well as experiments with language and creativity. The book acknowledges the longer pastoral tradition in literature, but also introduces readers to the newly expanding field of ecocriticism, including philosophies of embodiment and matter, queer ecocriticism, and animal studies. What emerges is a picture of green modernism that reifies our burgeoning awareness of what it means to be human within a larger living community"--
Author |
: Kelly Sultzbach |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 253 |
Release |
: 2016-08-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107161412 |
ISBN-13 |
: 110716141X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ecocriticism in the Modernist Imagination by : Kelly Sultzbach
Sultzbach's book provides a wide-ranging investigation into how the works of Forster, Woolf, and Auden helped shape our environmental imagination.
Author |
: Jeremy Diaper |
Publisher |
: Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2022-11-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781949979862 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1949979865 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Eco-Modernism by : Jeremy Diaper
In drawing together contributions from leading and emerging scholars from across the UK and America, Eco-Modernism offers a diverse range of environmental and ecological interpretations of modernist texts and illustrates that ecocriticism can offer fresh and provocative ways of understanding literary modernism.
Author |
: Jon Hegglund |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 2021-09-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781498555395 |
ISBN-13 |
: 149855539X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Modernism and the Anthropocene by : Jon Hegglund
Modernism and the Anthropocene explores twentieth-century literature as it engages with the non-human world across a range of contexts. From familiar modernist works by D.H. Lawrence and Hart Crane to still-emergent genres like comics and speculative fiction, this volume tackles a series of related questions regarding how best to understand humanity’s increasing domination of the natural world.
Author |
: Lawrence Buell |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 602 |
Release |
: 1996-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674262430 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674262433 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Environmental Imagination by : Lawrence Buell
With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a need to find new ways to understand nature and humanity's relation to it. This is the challenge Lawrence Buell takes up in The Environmental Imagination, the most ambitious study to date of how literature represents the natural environment. With Thoreau's Walden as a touchstone, Buell gives us a far-reaching account of environmental perception, the place of nature in the history of western thought, and the consequences for literary scholarship of attempting to imagine a more "ecocentric" way of being. In doing so, he provides a major new understanding of Thoreau's achievement and, at the same time, a profound rethinking of our literary and cultural reflections on nature. The green tradition in American writing commands Buell's special attention, particularly environmental nonfiction from colonial times to the present. In works by writers from Crevecoeur to Wendell Berry, John Muir to Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson to Leslie Silko, Mary Austin to Edward Abbey, he examines enduring environmental themes such as the dream of relinquishment, the personification of the nonhuman, an attentiveness to environmental cycles, a devotion to place, and a prophetic awareness of possible ecocatastrophe. At the center of this study we find an image of Walden as a quest for greater environmental awareness, an impetus and guide for Buell as he develops a new vision of environmental writing and seeks a new way of conceiving the relation between human imagination and environmental actuality in the age of industrialization. Intricate and challenging in its arguments, yet engagingly and elegantly written, The Environmental Imagination is a major work of scholarship, one that establishes a new basis for reading American nature writing.
Author |
: Andrew Kalaidjian |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 245 |
Release |
: 2020-01-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108477918 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108477917 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Exhausted Ecologies by : Andrew Kalaidjian
Modern literature and environmentalism combined ecology, psychology, and aesthetics to restore communal well-being to the United Kingdom after world war.
Author |
: Vin Nardizzi |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 357 |
Release |
: 2019-04-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781487519537 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1487519532 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary Imagination by : Vin Nardizzi
Premodern Ecologies in the Modern Literary Imagination explores how the cognitive and physical landscapes in which scholars conduct research, write, and teach have shaped their understandings of medieval and Renaissance English literary "oecologies." The collection strives to practice what Ursula K. Heise calls "eco-cosmopolitanism," a method that imagines forms of local environmentalism as a defense against the interventions of open-market global networks. It also expands the idea’s possibilities and identifies its limitations through critical studies of premodern texts, artefacts, and environmental history. The essays connect real environments and their imaginative (re)creations and affirm the urgency of reorienting humanity’s responsiveness to, and responsibility for, the historical links between human and non-human existence. The discussion of ways in which meditation on scholarly place and time can deepen ecocritical work offers an innovative and engaging approach that will appeal to both ecocritics generally and to medieval and early modern scholars.
Author |
: Kara Watts |
Publisher |
: University Press of Florida |
Total Pages |
: 275 |
Release |
: 2019-03-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813057071 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813057078 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Affective Materialities by : Kara Watts
Affective Materialities reexamines modernist theorizations of the body and opens up the artistic, political, and ethical possibilities at the intersection of affect theory and ecocriticism, two recent directions in literary studies not typically brought into conversation. Modernist creativity, the volume proposes, may return to us notions of the feeling, material body that contemporary scholarship has lost touch with, bodies that suggest alternative relations to others and to the world. Contributors argue that modernist writers frequently bridge the dichotomy between body and world by portraying bodies that merge with or are re-created by their surroundings into an amalgam of self and place. Chapters focus on this treatment of the body through works by canonical modernists including William Carlos Williams, Virginia Woolf, and E. M. Forster alongside lesser-studied writers Janet Frame, Herbert Read, and Nella Larsen. Showing the ways the body in literature can be a lens for understanding the fluidities of race, gender, and sexuality, as well as species and subjectivity, this volume maps the connections among modernist aesthetics, histories of the twentieth-century body, and the concerns of modernism that can also speak to urgent concerns of today.
Author |
: Ursula K. Heise |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 261 |
Release |
: 2008-09-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199714803 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199714800 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sense of Place and Sense of Planet by : Ursula K. Heise
Sense of Place and Sense of Planet analyzes the relationship between the imagination of the global and the ethical commitment to the local in environmentalist thought and writing from the 1960s to the present. Part One critically examines the emphasis on local identities and communities in North American environmentalism by establishing conceptual connections between environmentalism and ecocriticism, on one hand, and theories of globalization, transnationalism and cosmopolitanism, on the other. It proposes the concept of "eco-cosmopolitanism" as a shorthand for envisioning these connections and the cultural and aesthetic forms into which they translate. Part Two focuses on conceptualizations of environmental danger and connects environmentalist and ecocritical thought with the interdisciplinary field of risk theory in the social sciences, arguing that environmental justice theory and ecocriticism stand to benefit from closer consideration of the theories of cosmopolitanism that have arisen in this field from the analysis of transnational communities at risk. Both parts of the book combine in-depth theoretical discussion with detailed analyses of novels, poems, films, computer software and installation artworks from the US and abroad that translate new connections between global, national and local forms of awareness into innovative aesthetic forms combining allegory, epic, and views of the planet as a whole with modernist and postmodernist strategies of fragmentation, montage, collage, and zooming.