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Auteur principal : |
Murphy Patrick
(Auteur) |
Format : |
Livre |
Langue : |
anglais |
Titre complet : |
Ecocritical explorations in literary and cultural studies : fences, boundaries, and fields / Patrick D. Murphy |
Publié : |
Lanham :
Lexington Books
, C 2009
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Description matérielle : |
1 vol. (XI-217 p.) |
Contenu : |
Introduction: The four elements and the recovery of referentiality in ecocriticism. Pt. I: Climbing through conceptual fences. The complexity of simplicity ; Difference and responsibility in literary alternatives to the nation-state ; Paradise or a pair of dice : contradictions and contingencies in real and virtual terrains for tomorrow's college students ; Toward transnational ecocritical theory : the example of Hwa Yol Jung. Pt. II: Surveying the boundaries of genre. Nature in the contemporary American novel ; The non-alibi of alien scapes : science fiction and ecocriticism ; The non-alibi of pragmatic utopianism and wild variability, or, Optimistic variations on a science fiction theme ; Mysteries of nature and environmental justice. Pt. III: Culturally crossing the field. Nature-nurturing fathers in a world beyond our control ; Scenarios of disaster : crying wolf, scaring away the elephants, and heading 'em off at the pass ; Hurricanes and hubris : American responses in literature and culture to natural weather extremes and their human-driven intensifications ; Randing widely in the classroom |
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