Research Catalog

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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Details

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
• American literature
• Ecocriticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9781498514835
• 1498514839
• 9781498514842 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2015025006

OCLC

912508068

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library