Feminist Ecocriticism - Environment, Women, and Literature

Informationen zum Autor Douglas A. Vakoch is president of METI, dedicated to Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence and sustaining civilization on multigenerational timescales. As director of Green Psychotherapy, PC, he helps alleviate environmental distress through ecotherapy. Klappentext Feminist Ecocriticism examines the interplay of women and nature as seen through literary theory and criticism, drawing on insights from such diverse fields as chaos theory and psychoanalysis, while examining genres ranging from nineteenth-century sentimental literature to contemporary science fiction. The book explores the central claim of ecofeminism—that there is a connection between environmental degradation and the subordination of women—with the goal of identifying and fostering liberatory alternatives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. A Different StoryDouglas A. VakochChapter 1.  Ecofeminist Theories of Liberation in the Science Fiction of Sally Miller Gearhart, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Joan SlonczewskiEric C. OttoChapter 2. Barbara Kingsolver's Animal Dreams: Ecofeminist Subversion of Western Myth Theda WredeChapter 3.  Reintegrating Human and Nature: Modern Sentimental Ecology in Rachel Carson and Barbara Kingsolver Richard M. MageeChapter 4. Shifting Subjects and Marginal Worlds: Revealing the Radical in Rachel Carson's Three Sea Books Marnie M. SullivanChapter 5. Decadent Desire: The Dream of Disembodiment in J.K. Huysmans' A Rebours Monique M. LaRocqueChapter 6. "Discourse Excellent Music": Romantic Rhetoric and Ecofeminism in Mary Shelley's The Last ManVicky L. AdamsAfterword. Ecofeminism: The Ironic PhilosophyJeffrey A. Lockwood

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• Authors: Douglas A Vakoch, Douglas A. Vakoch, Douglas A. (EDT)/ Adams Vakoch
• Assisted by: Douglas A Vakoch (Editor), Douglas A. Vakoch (Editor), Vakoch Douglas A. (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.09.2012
• EAN: 9780739176825
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-7682-5
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice; Ecocritical Theory and Practic; Ecocritical Theory and Practic; Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Guides > Nature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; NATURE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, natural history, Feminism & feminist theory, Literary studies: general, Feminism and feminist theory, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Ecocriticism;Literary Studies;Theory