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Literature as Cultural Ecology
Sustainable Texts

Inglese · Tascabile

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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Drawing on the latest debates in ecocritical theory and sustainability studies, Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts outlines a new approach to the reading of literary texts. Hubert Zapf considers the ways in which literature operates as a form of cultural ecology, using language, imagination and critique to challenge and transform cultural narratives of humanity''s relationship to nature. In this way, the book demonstrates the important role that literature plays in creating a more sustainable way of life. Applying this approach to works by writers such as Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Zakes Mda, and Amitav Ghosh, Literature as Cultural Ecology is an essential contribution to the contemporary environmental humanities.>

Info autore

Hubert Zapf is Professor and Chair of American Literature at the University of Augsburg, Germany. His recent books include, as co-editor, American Studies Today: New Research Agendas (2014) and English and American Studies: Theory and Practice (2012).

Dettagli sul prodotto

Autori Hubert Zapf, Hubert (University of Augsburg Zapf
Con la collaborazione di Greg Garrard (Editore), Richard Kerridge (Editore)
Editore Bloomsbury Academic
 
Contenuto Libro
Forma del prodotto Tascabile
Data pubblicazione 31.10.2017
Categoria Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata
 
EAN 9781350051966
ISBN 978-1-350-05196-6
Numero di pagine 312
 
Serie Environmental Cultures
Environmental Cultures
Categorie Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, Literary theory
 

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