Words for a small planet : ecocritical views /

Scholars have begun critically assessing the relationship of modern environmental science, including the study of ecology, to the creation and study of art and culture. In this volume, the voices come from around the globe-some tentative in the stirring of conscious entwinement, other voices, stride...

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Other Authors: Norris, Nanette
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Imaginary representations and cultural performances of ecocriticis
  • Ecological narrative or imperial exploitation : what's the "monster" in Animal Planet's River monsters?
  • The representation of nature : an ecocritical reading of Juan León Mera's Cumandá
  • Nature versus war in letters from the front, 1914-1918
  • A passage to India : an ecocritical reading
  • Nature, women, and the ecotext : self-discovery in Emily Nasrallah's short stories "The cocoon" and "The butterfly"
  • Jerusalem in the poems of Tamim Al-Barghouthi and Yehuda Amichai
  • Omumu concept of begetting : a pro-feminist lesson from Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart
  • The legacy of the American War in Vietnam : Tim O'brien's "Sweetheart of the song tra bong"
  • National narrative as wilderness : an ecocritical interpretation of civilización y barbarie in modern Argentine literature
  • Unnatural appetites and the case of the cannibal in Korean cinema
  • Is "eco" enough? : Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, Wayland Drew's The erthring cycle, and evolutionary fiction.