ISBN:
9781137477507
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (IX, 214 p. 1 illus. in color)
Series Statement:
Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment
Series Statement:
Springer eBook Collection
Series Statement:
Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Economides, Louise, 1967 - The ecology of wonder in Romantic and Postmodern literature
Keywords:
Literature
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Literature, Modern 19th century
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Literature, Modern 20th century
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British literature
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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Literature
;
Literature, Modern 19th century
;
Literature, Modern 20th century
;
British literature
;
Postmodernism (Literature)
;
Englisch
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Literatur
;
Das Erhabene
;
Ecocriticism
;
Romantik
;
Postmoderne
Abstract:
This book traces the aesthetic of wonder from the romantic period through contemporary philosophy and literature, arguing for its relevance to ecological consciousness. Most ecocritical scholarship tends to overshadow discussions of wonder with the sublime, failing to treat these two aesthetic categories as distinct. As a result, contemporary scholarship has conflated wonder and the sublime and ultimately lost the nuances that these two concepts conjure for readers and thinkers. Economides illuminates important differences between these aesthetics, particularly their negotiation of issues relevant to gender-based and environmental politics. In turn, readers can utilize the concept of wonder as an open-ended, non-violent framework in contrast to the ethos of domination that often surrounds the sublime
DOI:
10.1057/978-1-137-47750-7
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