Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative (Cognitive Approaches to Culture) - Hardcover

Weik Von Mossner, Alexa

 
9780814213360: Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative (Cognitive Approaches to Culture)

Inhaltsangabe

Affective Ecologies: EmpathyEmotion, and Environmental Narrative explores our emotional engagement with environmental narrative. Focusing on the American cultural context, Alexa Weik von Mossner develops an ecocritical approach that draws on the insights of affective science and cognitive narratology. This approach helps to clarify how we interact with environmental narratives in ways that are both biologically universal and culturally specific. In doing so, it pays particular attention to the thesis that our minds are both embodied (in a physical body) and embedded (in a physical environment), not only when we interact with the real world but also in our engagement with imaginary worlds.
 
How do we experience the virtual environments we encounter in literature and film on the sensory and emotional level? How do environmental narratives invite us to care for human and nonhuman others who are put at risk? And how do we feel about the speculative futures presented to us in ecotopian and ecodystopian texts? Weik von Mossner explores these central questions that are important to anyone with an interest in the emotional appeal and persuasive power of environmental narratives.
 

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alexa Weik von Mossner is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria.

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Weitere beliebte Ausgaben desselben Titels

9780814254011: Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative (Cognitive Approaches to Culture)

Vorgestellte Ausgabe

ISBN 10:  0814254012 ISBN 13:  9780814254011
Verlag: Ohio State University Press, 2017
Softcover