Practical Ecocriticism - Literature, Biology, and the Environment

Practical Ecocriticism is the first book to ground environmental literature firmly in the life sciences, particularly evolutionary biology, and to attempt to bridge the ever-widening gulf between the "Two Cultures." Glen Love-himself one of the founders of ecocriticism-argues that literary studies has been diminished by a general lack of recognition for the vital role the biological foundation of human life plays in cultural imagination. Love presents with great clarity and directness an invaluable model for how to incorporate Darwinian ideas-the basis for all modern biology and ecology-into ecocriticial thinking.

About the author

Glen A. Love is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Oregon, where he taught American literature and initiated courses in bioregional and environmental literature over the past three decades. His ecocritical publications include New Americans and numerous periodical essays on literature and the environment. He and his biologist wife, Rhoda Love, published the groundbreaking anthology, Environmental Crisis, at the beginning of the modern environmental movement.

Summary

Placing environmental literature in the life sciences, Love argues that literary studies has been diminshed by a lack of recognition for the role that the biological foundation of human life plays in cultural imagination. He presents a model incorporating Darwinian ideas into ecocritical thinking.

Product details

• Authors: Unive Glen A. Love (Professor Emeritus of English, Glen A. Love, Glen A. Love (Professor Emeritus of English USA)
• Publisher: University Press of Virginia
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2003
• EAN: 9780813922454
• ISBN: 978-0-8139-2245-4
• No. of pages: 228
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 377 g
• Series: Under the Sign of Nature: Expl; Under the Sign of Nature: Expl; Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies