Literature as Cultural Ecology Sustainable Texts

• Päätekijä: Zapf, Hubert (auth)
• Aineistotyyppi: Elektroninen Kirjan osa
• Kieli: englanti
• Julkaistu: London Bloomsbury Academic 2016
• Sarja: Environmental Cultures
• Aiheet: Literature & literary studies; Literary theory; Comparative literature
• Linkit: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Yhteenveto

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.

Ulkoasu

1 electronic resource (288 p.)

ISBN

9781474274685
9781474274678
9781474274661

Pääsy

Open Access