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The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment / edited by Louise Westling, University of Oregon.
| Other author | Westling, Louise Hutchings. |
| Other author | Cambridge University Press. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014. |
| Description | xiii, 266 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from ProQuest One Literature - U.S. Customers Only |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Cambridge Companions |
| Subjects |
| Series | Cambridge Companions to Literature |
| Contents | Machine generated contents note: Introduction Louise Westling; Part I. Foundations: 1. Pastoral, anti-pastoral, and post-pastoral -- Terry Gifford; 2. The green otherworlds of early medieval literature -- Alfred K. Siewers; 3. "Mapping by Words": the politics of land in Native American literature -- Shari Huhndorf; Part II. Theories: 4. Ecocritical theory: romantic roots and impulses from twentieth-century European thinkers -- Axel Goodbody; 5. Nature, post nature -- Timothy Clark; 6. Violent affinities: sex, gender, and species in Cereus Blooms at Night -- Catriona Sandilands; 7. The lure of the wilderness -- Leo Mellor; Part III. Interdisciplinary Engagements: 8. "Tongues I'll hang on every tree": biosemiotics and the Book of Nature -- Wendy Wheeler; 9. Sauntering along the border: Thoreau, Nabhan, and food politics -- Janet Fiskio; 10. Animal studies, literary animals, and Yann Martel's Life of Pi -- Sarah McFarland; Part IV. Major Directions: 11. Environmental justice, cosmopolitics, and climate change -- Joni Adamson; 12. Systems and secrecy: postcolonial ecocriticism and Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome -- Bonnie Roos and Alex Hunt; 13. Environmental crises and East Asian literatures: uncertain presents and futures -- Karen Thornber; 14. Confronting catastrophe: ecocriticism in a warming world -- Kate Rigby; 15. Ecocinema and the wildlife film -- Stephen Rust. |
| Abstract | "This authoritative collection of rigorous but accessible essays investigates the exciting new interdisciplinary field of environmental literary criticism"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013029366 |
| ISBN | 9781107029927 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781107628960 (paperback) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |