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Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"This original and provocative study tells the story of American literary history from the perspective of its environmental context. Weaving together close readings of early American texts with ecological histories of tobacco, potatoes, apples, and honey bees, Michael Ziser presents a method for literary criticism that explodes the conceptual distinction between the civilized and natural world. Beginning with the English exploration of Virginia in...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Outlines a new approach to the reading of literary texts. Hubert Zapf considers the ways in which literature operates as a form of cultural ecology, using language, imagination, and critique to challenge and transform cultural narratives of humanity's relationsip to nature. In this way, the book demonstrates the important role that literature plays in creating a more sustainable way of life."--
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
This work examines relationships between humans, animals, and the environment. Divided into two sections that consider the postcolonial from environmental and zoocritical perspectives, the book looks at narratives of development in postcolonial writing, entitlement and belonging in pastoral, and much more.
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents literary criticism on the works of nineteenth-century writers of all genres, nations, and cultures. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, broadsheets, pamphlets, and scholarly papers. Criticism includes early views from the author's lifetime as well as later views, including extensive collections of contemporary analysis.
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An ecocritical lens allows for the interpretation of the role of the environment within a literary text. Five novels by Herman HessePeter Camenzind, Beneath the Wheel, knulp, Siddhartha, and Narcissus and Goldmundas well as several poems, are read from an ecocritical perspectice to show how Hesse's main characters interact with the natural world. Each of these characters forms connections with nature in his home place, on a journey away from home,...