Research Catalog

Title

The Oxford handbook of ecocriticism / edited by Greg Garrard.

Publication

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]

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Details

Additional Authors

Garrard, Greg

Description

xvii, 577 pages; 26 cm

Summary

The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism explores a range of critical perspectives used to analyze literature, film, and the visual arts in relation to the natural environment. Since the publication of field-defining works by Lawrence Buell, Jonathan Bate, and Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm in the 1990s, ecocriticism has become a conventional paradigm for critical analysis alongside queer theory, deconstruction, and postcolonial studies. The field includes numerous approaches, genres, movements, and media, as the essays collected here demonstrate. The contributors come from around the globe and, similarly, the literature and media covered originate from several countries and continents. Taken together, the essays consider how literary and other cultural productions have engaged with the natural environment to investigate climate change, environmental justice, sustainability, the nature of "humanity," and more. Featuring thirty-four original chapters, the volume is organized into three major areas. The first, History, addresses topics such as the Renaissance pastoral, Romantic poetry, the modernist novel, and postmodern transgenic art. The second, Theory, considers how traditional critical theories have expanded to include environmental perspectives. Included in this section are essays on queer theory, science studies, deconstruction, and postcolonialism. Genre, the final major section, explores the specific artforms that have animated the field over the past decade, including nature writing, children's literature, animated films, and digital media. A short section entitled Views from Here concludes the handbook by zeroing in on the various transnational perspectives informing the continued dissemination and globalization of the field.

Series Statement

Oxford handbooks

Uniform Title

Oxford handbooks.

Alternative Title

• Handbook of ecocriticism
• Ecocriticism

Subjects

• Conservation of natural resources in literature
• Ecocriticism
• Philosophy of nature in literature
• Ecology in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I. History. Being green in late medieval English literature / Gillian Rudd -- Shadows of the Renaissance / Robert N. Watson -- Romanticism and ecocriticism / Kate Rigby -- Cholera, Kipling, and tropical India / Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee -- Ecocriticism and modernism / Anne Raine -- W.E.B. Du Bois at the Grand Canyon: nature, history, and race in 'Darkwater' / John Claborn -- Pataphysics and postmodern ecocriticism: a prospectus / Adam Dickinson -- Part II. Theory. Ecocriticism and the politics of representation / Cheryl Lousley -- Cosmovisions: environmental justice, transnational American studies, and indigenous literature / Joni Adamson -- Feminist science studies and ecocriticism: aesthetics and entanglement in the deep sea / Stacy Alaimo -- Mediating climate change: ecocriticism, science studies, and 'The hungry tide' / Adam Trexler -- Ecocriticism, posthumanism, and the biological idea of culture / Helena Feder -- Ferality tales / Greg Gerrard -- Biosemiotic criticism / Timo Maran -- Phenomenology / Timothy Clark -- Deconstruction and/as ecology / Timothy Morton -- Queer life?: ecocriticism after the fire / Catriona Sandilands -- Postcolonialism / Elizabeth DeLoughrey -- Extinctions: chronicles of vanishing fauna in the colonial and postcolonial Caribbean / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert -- Part III. Genre. Ecocritical approaches to literary form and genre: urgency, depth, provisionality, temporality / Richard Kerridge -- Are you serious?: a modest proposal for environmental humor / Michael P. Branch -- Is American nature writing dead? / Daniel J. Philippon -- Environmental writing for children: a selected reconnaissance of heritages, emphases, horizons / Lawrence Buell -- The contemporary English novel and its challenges to ecocriticism / Astrid Bracke -- "A music numerous as space": cognitive environment and the house that lyric builds / Sharon Lattig -- Rethinking eco-film studies / David Ingram -- Green banjo: the ecoformalism of old-time music / Scott Knickerbocker -- Media moralia: reflections on damaged environments and digital life / Andrew McMurry -- Talking about climate change: the ecological crisis and narrative form / Ursula Kluwick -- Part IV. The views from here. Ecocriticism in Japan / Yuki Masami -- Engaging with Prakriti: a survey of ecocritical praxis in India / Swarnalatha Rangarajan -- Chinese ecocriticism in the last ten years / Qingqi Wei -- German ecocriticism: an overview / Axel Goodbody -- Barrier beach / Rob Nixon.

Call Number

JFF 16-992

ISBN

• 9780199742929
• 0199742928

LCCN

• 2013013891
• 40023934298

OCLC

842316320

Title

The Oxford handbook of ecocriticism / edited by Greg Garrard.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Oxford handbooks

Oxford handbooks.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Garrard, Greg, editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40023934298

Research Call Number

JFF 16-992

*R-RMRR PN98.E36 O94 2014