Value of Ecocriticism

This book offers a brief, incisive accessible overview of the fast-changing field of environmental literary criticism in an age of global environmental threat.

List of contents

1. The 'Anthropocene'?: Nature and complexity; 2. Scalar literacy; 3. Ecopoetry; 4. The challenge for prose narrative; 5. Material ecocriticism; 6. 'Postcolonial ecocriticism' ... and beyond?

About the author

Timothy Clark is a specialist in the environmental humanities and deconstruction. Clark has been a leading figure in the development of new modes of literary criticism engaged with the intellectual revolution inseparable from thinking of global environmental degradation. His previous books include, Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept (2015); The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment (Cambridge, 2011); Derrida, Heidegger, Blanchot: Sources of Derrida's Notion and Practice of Literature (Cambridge, 1992).

Summary

This book offers a brief, incisive and accessible overview of the fast-changing field of environmental literary criticism in a bewildering age of global environmental threat. It will be a key resource for students, graduates and scholars working in the area of literature and the environment.

Product details

• Authors: Timothy Clark, Timothy (University of Durham) Clark
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781107095298
• ISBN: 978-1-107-09529-8
• No. of pages: 194
• Series: The Value of; The Value of
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literary studies: general, Social impact of environmental issues