Ecopoetics of Reenchantment - Liminal Realism and Poetic Echoes of the Earth

This book establishes how ecopoetics can provide insight into the poetic echoes of the living earth that are diffracted in environmental fiction, encouraging a reenchantment that adheres to postmodern science, while braiding various onto-epistemological threads. It reentangles the very material texture of language within the biosemiotic world.

List of contents

Part One: From Disenchantment to an Ecopoetics of Reenchantment
Chapter One: Disenchanted, Enchanted, and Reenchanted Worldviews
Chapter Two: Toward an Ecofeminist, Ecopoetic Project of a Rational Reenchantment
Chapter Three: An Ecofeminist Remystification of Narrative: The Many Faces of Gaia in the Anthrop-o(bs)cene
Chapter Four: Sowing the Seeds of an Ecopoet(h)ics of Wonder and Enchantment: Reincorporating Language and the Human into the Flesh and Song of the World

Part Two: Ecopoetic Reenchantment via Liminal Realism
Chapter Five: Why Liminal, Rather than "Magical," "Spiritual," "Mystical," "Ontological," or "Epistemological" Realism?
Chapter Six: Postcolonial Liminality and (Re)initiation into a Multispecies World: Moving betwixt and between Human and Other-than-Human Realms in Linda Hogan's Power and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
Chapter Seven: Post-Pastoral, Non-Indigenous Thought-Experiments with Totemic and Animistic Liminality
Chapter Eight: Liminal Realism and Interspecies Thought-Exper

About the author

Bénédicte Meillon is associate professor at the University of Perpignan and affiliated with the LARCA- CNRS at the Université de Paris.

Product details

• Authors: Benedicte Meillon, Bénédicte Meillon
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9781666910421
• ISBN: 978-1-66691-042-1
• No. of pages: 386
• Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• 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 / Subjects & Themes / Nature, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, The environment, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Feminism & feminist theory, Science / Environmental Science, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: poetry and poets