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Persuasive aesthetic ecocritical praxis : climate change, subsistence, and questionable futures

Title
Persuasive aesthetic ecocritical praxis : climate change, subsistence, and questionable futures / Patrick D. Murphy.
Author
Murphy, Patrick D., 1951-
Publication
Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]

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Description
xxx, 183 pages; 24 cm
Series Statement
Ecocritical theory and practice
Uniform Title
Ecocritical theory and practice.
Subject
  • Ecocriticism
  • American literature > History and criticism
  • Ecology in literature
  • Philosophy of nature in literature
  • Ecofeminism in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Continuing the transversal ecocritical praxis project -- The question of aesthetic praxis: if literature and art are propaganda, what is ecocritical analysis? -- Back to concerns about the future: Susan Fenimore Cooper and rural hours -- Pessimism, optimism, human inertia and anthropogenic climate change -- Directing the weather, producing the climate -- Buying agriculture, selling starvation and the failure of business-as-usual in a dystopic future -- Viewing the far fields through an ecofeminist subsistence perspective in an age of land grabs -- From consumables to sustenance through an ecofeminist sufficiency reorientation -- Listening for a way out through a deep yearning for a resounding relationship -- The role of women and gender equality in creating ecotopia.
Call Number
JFE 15-6710
ISBN
  • 9781498514835
  • 1498514839
  • 9781498514842 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2015025006
OCLC
912508068
Author
Murphy, Patrick D., 1951- author.
Title
Persuasive aesthetic ecocritical praxis : climate change, subsistence, and questionable futures / Patrick D. Murphy.
Publisher
Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Ecocritical theory and practice
Ecocritical theory and practice.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Form:
Electronic version: Murphy, Patrick D., 1951- Persuasive aesthetic ecocritical praxis. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015] 9781498514835 (DLC) 2015025006 (OCoLC)912508068
Research Call Number
JFE 15-6710
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