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Culture, Creativity and Environment : New Environmentalist Criticism.
Title:
Culture, Creativity and Environment : New Environmentalist Criticism.
Author:
Becket, Fiona.
ISBN:
9789401204781
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (259 pages)
Series:
Nature, Culture and Literature, 5 ; v.5

Nature, Culture and Literature, 5
Contents:
Culture, Creativity and Environment New Environmentalist Criticism -- Contents -- Introduction -- Journey to the Heart of Stone -- What is (ecological) 'nature'? John Stuart Mill and the Victorian perspective -- Fear and Flowers in Anya Gallaccio's Forest Floor, Keep off the Grass, Glaschu and Repens -- Like a Ship to be Tossed: Emersonian Environmentalism and Marilynne Robinson's -- In the Mirror of Middle Earth: Langland's use of the world as a book and what we can make of it -- Poodles and Curs: Eugenic Comedy in Ibsen's An Enemy of the People -- The Hunter as Nature-Lover: Idyll, aggression and ecology in the German animal stories of Otto Alscher -- Postcolonialism, Ecocriticism and the Animal in Recent Canadian Fiction1 -- Barry MacSweeney's Moorland Romance -- Painting Landscape: Mediating Dislocation -- Modernity and the Politics of Place in Luis Trenker's Der verlorene Sohn -- Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty: Ecopoetics and the Problem of Humanism -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
Culture, Creativity and Environment: New Environmentalist Criticism is a collection of new work which examines the intersection between philosophy, literature, visual art, film and the environment at a time of environmental crisis. This book is unusual in the way in which the 'imaginative', 'creative', element is privileged, notwithstanding the creativity of rigorous cultural criticism. Genuinely interdisciplinary, this book aims to be inclusive in its discussions of diverse cultural media (different literary genres, art forms and film for instance), which offer thoughtful and thought-provoking critiques of our relationships with the environment. Our ability to transcend the ethical and aesthetic categories and discourses that have contributed to our alienation from our environment is dependant upon an enlargement of our imaginative capacities. In a modest way this book might contribute to what Ted Hughes, speaking of the imagination of each new child, described as "nature's chance to correct culture's error".
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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