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Ecocriticism and women writers : environmentalist poetics of Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, and Ali Smith / Justyna Kostkowska.

Title: Ecocriticism and women writers : environmentalist poetics of Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, and Ali Smith / Justyna Kostkowska.
Author: Kostkowska, Justyna
Publication: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Description

vi, 189 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Virginia Woolf, Jeanette Winterson, and Ali Smith sharean ecological philosophy of the world as one highly interconnected entity comprisedof multiple and equal, human and non-human participants. This study argues thatthese writers' texts have an ecological significance in fostering respect for andunderstanding of difference, human and nonhuman.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

Cover and spine title : Ecocritism and women writers

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

"Kew Gardens" narrative ecology: Virginia Woolf's ecofeminist imagination and the narrative discovery of Jacob's Room -- "All taken together": ecological form in Mrs. Dalloway -- Singing the world in the waves: ecopoetics of Woolf's play-poem -- Living with the other: Jeanette Winterson's written on the body -- Multiplicity and coexistence in The powerbook -- The fiction of abundance and awareness: Jeanette Winterson's Lighthousekeeping -- Hotel world: a symbiotic narrative space -- Getting close: ecopoetics of intimacy in Ali Smith's Like -- Stories that change the world: Ali Smith's ecological "realityfiction."

ISBN

9780230308435 (hardback)
0230308430 (hardback)

LCCN

^^2013014637

OCLC

842994132
SCSB-13266035

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library