Weaving words into worlds / edited by Caroline Durand-Rous, Margot Lauwers, OIKOS-CRESEM, University of Perpignan, France.
| Other author | Durand-Rous, Caroline. |
| Other author | Lauwers, Margot. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Wilmington, Delaware, United States : Vernon Press, [2023] |
| Description | xxvii, 284 pages : illustrations (black & white) ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Series in literary studies |
| Contents | The Polynesian Dream : Biblical and Ancestral Myths Re-enchanting the Postcolonial Imaginary of the Islands / Chloé Angué -- Toward an Island Ecopoetics : Reenchanting the Andaman Ecology and the Jarawa Tribal Reserve in Pankaj Sekhsaria's The Last Wave / Asis De -- Flowing with the Stream : Real and Magical Waters in Joseph Boyden's Through Black Spruce / Caroline Durand-Rous -- Worlds of Stories : Narrating Native American Land in Documentary Film / Maxime Petit -- The Ecological Christian Labyrinth and the Significance of Trees in The Lord of the Rings / Stephen Greenfield -- At Ground Level : Narratorial Ecology and Economy in Dermot Healy's Long Time, No See (2011) / Catherine Hoffmann -- Sean Penn's Into the Wild or Filming Nature with/and Passion / David Latour -- Re-enchanting the City in Graphic Novels : Walking Past and Future (Sub) Urban Spaces in Davodeau & Jacquet's Jeanne de la zone (2008) and Delisle's Shenzhen : A Travelogue from China (2006) / Anne Cirella-Urrutia -- "Acoustic Shadows" : Civil War Spaces in Contemporary Works / Peter Schulman -- Literary Vagabonds and the Lure of the Open Road / Adrian Tait -- Ecopoesis and the Rewilding of the World : Kathleen Jamie, Jay Griffiths, and George Monbiot / Adrian Tait -- Trauma and Ecological Re-alignment in Gretel Ehrlich's A Match to the Heart / Wes Berry --Laudato Si', "The Mass on the World," and Flannery O'Connor's Eucharistic Ecology / George Piggford -- Haiku as the Ecopoetical Threshold of "Ice Riding on Its Melting" / Keiko Takioto Miller. |
| Abstract | 'Weaving Words into Worlds' comes as the third spinoff of the international ecopoetics conference organized in Perpignan in 2016. Reflecting upon how the many stories we tell directly influence the world we live in, each of the contributions in this international volume directs our attention to the constant, ecopoetic weaving of word to the world at work via the many entanglements between mind, matter, and meaning, whether on a local or a global scale. It encapsulates how the words, stories, and concepts we humans articulate as we try to make sense of the world we inhabit give part of its shape to the web of ecological relations that we depend on for survival. It seeks to cast light on the disenchanting and reenchanting powers of stories and poiesis in general-as stories retain the power to make us either become oblivious to and destroy or to feel and honor the many, complex ties between the multitudinous nature cultures intertwined within the fabric of a multispecies world always in the making. This book offers a total of fourteen articles written by international scholars in ecocriticism and ecopoetics who, by their analyses of literature and/or films and the political subtext they thus render visible, aim at showing how the study of environmentally minded media may renew our attention to the entangled agencies of the human and the more-than-human realm. Thus, this work offers to counter a reproach ecocriticism has often been met with, namely the over-presence of US scholars and the lack of diversity in subjects in the field, since the articles presented provide a wide variety of approaches and topics with examples of UK and Native American literature, Polynesian myth, graphic novels, or haiku. In doing so, the book expands on the fields of ecocriticism and ecopoetics, adding to this branch of study and enriching it with high-quality academic studies--Jacket. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Issued in other form | Electronic version: Weaving words into worlds. Wilmington, Delaware : Vernon Press, [2023] 9781648897849 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2023932404 |
| ISBN | 9781648896491 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1648896499 hardcover |
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