Research Catalog

Title

Transversal ecocritical praxis : theoretical arguments, literary analysis, and cultural critique / Patrick D. Murphy.

Author

Murphy, Patrick D., 1951-

Publication

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2013]

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Details

Description

viii, 183 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Ecocritical theory and practice

Subject

• Ecocriticism
• Ecology > Economic aspects > United States
• Philosophy of nature in literature
• Ecology in literature
• Ecofeminism in literature
• Environmental literature > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Unpacking the terms of my title and outlining the organization of my text -- Dialoguing with Bakhtin on our ethical responsiblility to anothers -- Furnishing the study for performing the household by resolving static cling: the procession of identity and ecology in contemporary literature -- Subjects, identities, bodies, and selves: siblings, symbiotes, and the ecological stakes of self perception -- An ecological feminist revisioning of the masculinist sublime -- Consumption as addiction, sustainability as recovery -- Community resilience and the cosmopolitan role in environmental challenge-response novels of Ghosh, Grace, and Sinha -- The poetic politics of ecological inhabitation in Neruda's Canto general and Cardenal's Cosmic canticle -- The dilemma of terraforming in three parts -- Damning damming modernity: the destructive role of megadams -- Preparing on the plateau of peak oil for a post-carbon economy in Okinawa.

ISBN

• 9780739182703 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0739182706 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780739182710 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013012824

OCLC

841227444

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library