The Green Studies Reader: From Romanticism to Ecocriticism - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415204070 ISBN 13: 9780415204071

Verlag: Routledge, 2000

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Laurence Coupe brings together a collection of extracts from a wide range of both historical and contemporary ecocritical texts.

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Laurence Coupe is Senior Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he teaches a course in ecological literary theory. He is the author of the 'Ecocriticism' and 'Myth' sections of the Annotated Bibliography for English Studies, and the author of Myth (Routledge, 1997). For further information on this author please see www.laurencecoupe.co.uk

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THE GREEN STUDIES READER IS A FANTASTICALLY COMPREHENSIVE SELECTION OF CRITICAL TEXTS WHICH ADDRESS THE CONNECTION BETWEEN ECOLOGY, CULTURE AND LITERATURE. IT OFFERS A COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE GROWING AREA OF ECOCRITICISM. THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF THIS FIELD ARE COVERED IN DEPTH, SUCH AS:
-- ROMANTIC ECOLOGY AND ITS LEGACY
-- THE EARTH, MEMORY AND THE CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY
-- NATURE/CULTURE/GENDER
-- ECOCRITICAL PRINCIPLES
-- ENVIRONMENTAL LITERARY HISTORY
-- THE NATURE OF THE TEXT

APPEARING IN THE COLLECTION ARE EXTRACTS FROM TODAY'S LEADING ECOCRITICS AS WELL AS FIGURES FROM THE PAST WHO PIONEERED A GREEN APPROACH TO LITERATURE AND CULTURE. AS A WHOLE THE READER ENCOURAGES A REASSESSMENT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF CRITICISM AND OFFERS A RADICAL PROSPECT FOR ITS FUTURE. THE BOOK INCLUDES EXTRACTS FROM: WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, HENRY DAVID THOREAU, JOHN RUSKIN, WILLIAM MORRIS, VIRGINIA WOOLF, D. H. LAWRENCE, THEODOR ADORNO, MARTIN HEIDEGGER, RAYMOND WILLIAMS, THEODORE ROSZAK, CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS, JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD, JONATHAN BATE, KATE SOPER, GARY SNYDER, TERRY GIFFORD, LOUISE WESTLING, RICHARD KERRIDGE, AND JHAN HOCHMAN.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0415204070
• ISBN 13: 9780415204071
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336
• Herausgeber: Coupe Laurence
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