The Oxford Handbook of EcocriticismGreg Garrard The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism provides a broad survey of the longstanding relationship between literature and the environment. The moment for such an offering is opportune in many respects: multiple environmental crises are increasingly inescapable at both transnational and local levels; the role of the humanities in addition to technology and politics is increasingly recognized as central for exploring and finding solutions; and the subject of ecocriticism has reached a kind of critical mass, both within its Anglo-American heartlands and beyond. From its origins in the study of American Nature Writing and British Romanticism, ecocriticism has developed along numerous theoretical, historical, cultural and geographical axes, the most contemporary and exciting of which will be represented in the Handbook. The contributors include eminent founders of the field, including Michael Branch and Richard Kerridge, a number of key 'second-wave' ecocritics, and the best up-and-coming scholars. Topics covered include: Renaissance anxieties about nature; the challenges of representing climate change; the racialization of the environment in the early 20th century; language and the concept of biosemiotics; and the possibilities for environmental humour. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
aesthetic African American Alaimo animals anthropocentric approach argues biological Biosemiotics birds body Buell Cambridge Caribbean Carson century challenge children’s claims climate change Cloud Atlas colonial concept contemporary creatures Creole pig critical critique cultural discourse dogs Earth ecocritical ecocriticism ecological ecosystems emerge environmental justice environmentalist essay ethical evolutionary example experience exploration feral fiction film forms Garrard genre Green Haraway heteronormative human humor Hungry Tide idea ideology Imagination imperial Indian indigenous landscape language Latour Lawrence Buell literary living London means modern modernist narrative natural world nature writing nature’s nonhuman novel ocean old-time old-time music organism Oxford pataphysical perception perspective phenomenology philosophy poem poetic poetry political postcolonial posthumanism Print queer question reading relations representations Romantic Romanticism Routledge scholars scientific semiotic sense Silko social space species story studies suggests texts theory things thinking tion tradition University Press wilderness York