ISBN:
9789004335080
,
9004335080
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 309 pages)
Series Statement:
Studies in environmental humanities v. 4
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Contesting environmental imaginaries
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Nature Sources Effect of human beings on
;
History
;
Human ecology Sources History
;
Science and the humanities
;
Nature in literature
;
Human ecology in literature
;
Nature in art
;
Human ecology in art
;
Nature (Aesthetics)
;
Environment (Aesthetics)
;
Discourse analysis
;
LITERARY CRITICISM ; Subjects & Themes ; Nature
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Nature ; Effect of human beings on
;
Discourse analysis
;
Environment (Aesthetics)
;
Human ecology
;
Human ecology in art
;
Human ecology in literature
;
Nature (Aesthetics)
;
Nature in art
;
Nature in literature
;
Science and the humanities
;
Umweltbewusstsein
;
Sozialökologie
;
Natur
;
Literatur
;
Diskursanalyse
;
Sources
;
History
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
"Contesting Environmental Imaginaries foregrounds a question central to humanistic environmental studies: How is nature to be perceived and understood in a time of global environmental crisis? A challenge was issued to imagine counter natures, past or present, casting nature as a normative concept into productive relief. One ambition was to highlight shifting perspectives on nature and the environment that may help account for the rise of the environmental humanities; another was to invite challenges to orthodoxies, including those that animate this burgeoning field. Contributions emerged from the study areas of Environmental History, Ecocriticism, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Scandinavian Studies, Media Studies, and the History of Ideas. This volume draws together the fruits of this thought experiment"--Provided by publisher
Abstract:
Introduction: Naturalizing culture and countering nature in discourses of the environment / Steven Hartman -- Part 1. Re-contextualizing nature -- Day and night : topography and renewal in Thoreau's Walden and Douglass's Narrative / Klaus Benesch -- James Schuyler's flower poems and the urban pastoral aesthetic / Tatiani G. Rapatzikou -- Palimpsest of subjugation : inscriptions of domination on the land and the human body in Jane Smiley's A thousand acres / Oyunn Hestetun -- Reframing American naturism? : space, history and the rise of environmental discourse / Mark Luccarelli -- Part 2. Challenging nature and envisioning counternatures -- Uses and abuses of environmental memory / Lawrence Buell -- Environment, technology, and modernity in contemporary Japanese animation / Ursula K. Heise -- A harmony of murder : transatlantic visions of wilderness in Werner Herzog's Grizzly man / Torben Huus Larsen -- Literary appreciation : a biocultural view / Marcus Nordlund -- Part 3. Applying counternatures -- Dark Darwin : (d)evolutionary theory and the logic of vampirism in Bram Stoker's Dracula / Henrik Otterberg -- Why should we respect nature? : an appropriation of Nietzsche / Torsten Pettersson -- Histories and ideologies of nature in Argyll / Karen Lykke Syse -- "Picturing Eden" : contesting Fredrika Bremer's tropics / Adriana Mendez Rodenas -- Life under water : narratives of deep sea counternatures / Hakan Sandgren -- Superfund sites as anti-landscapes / David E. Nye.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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