Decolonising Pastoral - Semiotic Freedom in Literature and Culture

This book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of pastoral, a genre that has captured the Western imagination for centuries, across literature, art and music. The book will be an important read for scholars, researchers and students interested in literature, ecology, environmental studies and language.

List of contents

1. Biosemiotics for Literary Studies 2. Semiotic Freedom and Creativity 3. Blue Humanities and Creative Writing 4. Synthetic Criticism in the Humanities Ecosystem 5. Imperial Metrics for Decolonising Pastoral 6. The Lives of Signs Post-script

About the author

Thomas Bristow is an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for the History of Emotions, University of Western Australia.

Summary

This book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of pastoral, a genre that has captured the Western imagination for centuries, across literature, art and music. The book will be an important read for scholars, researchers and students interested in literature, ecology, environmental studies and language.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Bristow, Thomas (University of Western Australia Bristow
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032841533
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3284153-3
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Routledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; NATURE / Essays, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, The environment, Ethics & moral philosophy, Literary studies: general, Ethics and moral philosophy, Literary theory