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Autore |
Murphy Patrick D. <1951-> |
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Persuasive aesthetic ecocritical praxis : climate change, subsistence, and questionable futures / / Patrick D. Murphy |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (215 p.) |
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Collana |
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Ecocritical theory and practice |
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Soggetti |
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Ecocriticism |
American literature - History and criticism |
Ecology in literature |
Philosophy of nature in literature |
Ecofeminism in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: Continuing the transversal ecocritical praxis project -- The question of aesthetic praxis: if literature and art are propaganda, what is ecocritical analysis? -- Back to concerns about the future: Susan Fenimore Cooper and rural hours -- Pessimism, optimism, human inertia and anthropogenic climate change -- Directing the weather, producing the climate -- Buying agriculture, selling starvation and the failure of business-as-usual in a dystopic future -- Viewing the far fields through an ecofeminist subsistence perspective in an age of land grabs -- From consumables to sustenance through an ecofeminist sufficiency reorientation -- Listening for a way out through a deep yearning for a resounding relationship -- The role of women and gender equality in creating ecotopia. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Persuasive Aesthetic Ecocritical Praxis analyzes environmental literature and film from a tranversal ecocritical orientation with a focus on the aesthetic dimensions in terms of persuasive affects. It emphasizes attention to crucial themes, such as climate change, land dispossession, and differential gender impacts of global economics, as |
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