Green Matters: Ecocultural Functions of Literature: Nature, Culture and Literature, cartea 15
Maria Löschnigg, Melanie Brauneckeren Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 noi 2019
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789004408869
ISBN-10: 900440886X
Pagini: 386
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Nature, Culture and Literature
ISBN-10: 900440886X
Pagini: 386
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Nature, Culture and Literature
Cuprins
Notes on Contributors
1Introduction to the Volume
Melanie Braunecker and Maria Löschnigg
2The Function of Literature in Environmental Discourses
Maria Löschnigg
3Literature and/as Cultural Ecology
Hubert Zapf
4Representing the Environment in Victorian, Modern, and Postcolonial Fictions: Three Maritime Canadian Novels
David Creelman
5‘On the Edge of Humanism’: Travel Writing at the Intersection of Environmental Concerns
Halia Koo
6James Joyce’s Ulysses: Vampires, ‘Fake News’, and the Approaching Global Environmental Hunger Crisis
Bonnie Roos
7Cli-Fi – Genre of the Twenty-First Century? Narrative Strategies in Contemporary Climate Fiction and Film
Axel Goodbody
8Western American Cli-Fi: The Biosemiotics of Ecophrasis
Alex Hunt
9Allegory and Human Nature in Ian McEwan’s Solar
Johannes Wally
10Un/doing Climate Change in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book and Ellen van Neerven’s ‘Water’
Iva Polak
11Abject Permanence: Apocalyptic Narratives and the Horror of Persistence
Heather Duncan and Eleanor Gold
12Imagination and the Eco-social Crisis (or: Why I Write Creative Non-fiction)
Julia Martin
13‘When we walked on the backs of fish’: A Writer’s Environmental Path in the Creation of Multi-dimensional Narratives
Marilyn Bowering
14The Multi-genre Multimedia Disjunctive Poetic Narrative Dream Text: ‘New Epic’ Attentions in Contemporary Canadian Experimental Writing
Di Brandt
15Native Knowledge Systems and the Cultural Ecology of Literature
Maria Löschnigg
16Climate Change Drama across Time and Space: Chantal Bilodeau’s Forward (2016)
Nassim Winnie Balestrini
17The Lure of Fast Money: Staging Fort McMurray
Melanie Braunecker
18carried away on the crest of a wave – A Play of Hope by David Yee
Albert Rau
19Where the Wild Things Are: The Role of Animals in Canadian Schoolbooks
Claire E. Smerdon
20Two Tragic Tales of Ursus canadensis: Animal Perspectives in Charles G.D. Roberts’ The Heart of the Ancient Wood and Antonine Maillet’s L’Oursiade
Konrad Gro
Index
Part 1: Introduction and Theoretical Frame
1Introduction to the Volume
Melanie Braunecker and Maria Löschnigg
2The Function of Literature in Environmental Discourses
Maria Löschnigg
3Literature and/as Cultural Ecology
Hubert Zapf
Part 2: Literature and the Environment: Past and Present
4Representing the Environment in Victorian, Modern, and Postcolonial Fictions: Three Maritime Canadian Novels
David Creelman
5‘On the Edge of Humanism’: Travel Writing at the Intersection of Environmental Concerns
Halia Koo
6James Joyce’s Ulysses: Vampires, ‘Fake News’, and the Approaching Global Environmental Hunger Crisis
Bonnie Roos
Part 3: New Approaches to Climate Fiction
7Cli-Fi – Genre of the Twenty-First Century? Narrative Strategies in Contemporary Climate Fiction and Film
Axel Goodbody
8Western American Cli-Fi: The Biosemiotics of Ecophrasis
Alex Hunt
9Allegory and Human Nature in Ian McEwan’s Solar
Johannes Wally
10Un/doing Climate Change in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book and Ellen van Neerven’s ‘Water’
Iva Polak
11Abject Permanence: Apocalyptic Narratives and the Horror of Persistence
Heather Duncan and Eleanor Gold
Part 4: Creative Criticism
12Imagination and the Eco-social Crisis (or: Why I Write Creative Non-fiction)
Julia Martin
13‘When we walked on the backs of fish’: A Writer’s Environmental Path in the Creation of Multi-dimensional Narratives
Marilyn Bowering
14The Multi-genre Multimedia Disjunctive Poetic Narrative Dream Text: ‘New Epic’ Attentions in Contemporary Canadian Experimental Writing
Di Brandt
Part 5: Special Focus: Canadian Contexts
15Native Knowledge Systems and the Cultural Ecology of Literature
Maria Löschnigg
16Climate Change Drama across Time and Space: Chantal Bilodeau’s Forward (2016)
Nassim Winnie Balestrini
17The Lure of Fast Money: Staging Fort McMurray
Melanie Braunecker
18carried away on the crest of a wave – A Play of Hope by David Yee
Albert Rau
19Where the Wild Things Are: The Role of Animals in Canadian Schoolbooks
Claire E. Smerdon
20Two Tragic Tales of Ursus canadensis: Animal Perspectives in Charles G.D. Roberts’ The Heart of the Ancient Wood and Antonine Maillet’s L’Oursiade
Konrad Gro
Index
Notă biografică
Maria Löschnigg is Professor of English at the University of Graz, Austria. She has published monographs on Canadian literature and British drama, co-edited books on literature and migration, and on contemporary epistolary writing. Her articles focus on a wide range of fields, including ecocritical issues such as Canadian ecopoetry, Native ecologies and Nigerian petro-literature.
Melanie Braunecker is a PhD candidate at the Karl Franzens University of Graz, Austria, and a high school teacher of Latin and English in Klagenfurt, Austria. Her PhD project focuses on literary representations of Canada’s oil/tar sands.
Melanie Braunecker is a PhD candidate at the Karl Franzens University of Graz, Austria, and a high school teacher of Latin and English in Klagenfurt, Austria. Her PhD project focuses on literary representations of Canada’s oil/tar sands.