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UNINA9910778019903321 |
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Autore |
Murphy Patrick D. <1951-> |
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Ecocritical explorations in literary and cultural studies [[electronic resource] ] : fences, boundaries, and fields / / Patrick D. Murphy |
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Lanham, : Lexington Books, c2009 |
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1-282-49377-9 |
9786612493775 |
0-7391-3175-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (230 p.) |
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American literature - History and criticism |
Ecocriticism |
Ecology in literature |
Philosophy of nature in literature |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-207) and index. |
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Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Climbing Through Conceptual Fences Chapter 3 The Complexity of Simplicity Chapter 4 Difference and Responsibility in Literary Alternatives to Nation State Chapter 5 Paradise or a Pair of Dice: Contradictions and Contingencies in Real and Virtual Terrains for Tomorrow's College Students Chapter 6 Toward Transnational Ecocritical Theory: The Example of Hwa Yol Jung Part 7 Surveying the Boundaries of Genre Chapter 8 Nature in the Contemporary American Novel Chapter 9 The Non-alibi of Alien Scapes: SF and Ecocriticism Chapter 10 The Non-alibi of Pragmatic Utopianism and Wild Variability; or, Optimistic Variations on a Science Fiction Theme Chapter 11 Mysteries of Nature and Environmental Justice Part 12 Culturally Crossing the Field Chapter 13 Nature Nurturing Fathers in a World beyond our Control Chapter 14 Scenarios of Disaster: Crying Wolf, Scaring away the Elephants, and Heading 'Em off at the Pass Chapter 15 Hurricanes and Hubris Chapter 16 Ranging Widely to Find Home |
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In Ecocritical Explorations, Patrick D. Murphy explores environmental literature and environmental cultural issues through both theoretical |
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and applied criticism. He engages with the concepts of referentiality, simplicity, the nation state, and virtual reality in the first section of the book, and then goes on to interrogate these issues in contemporary environmental literature, both American and international. He concludes his argument with a discussion of the larger frames of family dynamics and un-natural disasters, such as hurricanes and global warming, ending with a chapter on the integration of scholarship and pedagogy in the classroom, with reference to his own teaching experiences. Murphy's study provides a wide ranging discussion of contemporary literature and cultural phenomena through the lens of ecological literary criticism, giving attention to both theoretical issues and applied critiques. In particular, he looks at popular literary genres, such as mystery and science fiction, as well as actual disasters and disaster scenarios. Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies is a timely contribution to ecological literary criticism and an insightful look into how we represent our relationship with the environment. |
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UNINA9910495890303321 |
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Judovitz Dalia |
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Unpacking Duchamp : art in transit / / Dalia Judovitz [[electronic resource]] |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1995 |
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0-520-92101-1 |
0-585-26394-9 |
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1 online resource (x, 308 p. ) : ill. ; |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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DuchampMarcel <1887-1968.> |
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Modernism (Art) |
Postmodernism |
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Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-290) and index. |
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Perhaps no twentieth-century artist utilized puns and linguistic |
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ambiguity with greater effect-and greater controversy-than Marcel Duchamp. Through a careful "unpacking" of his major works, Dalia Judovitz finds that Duchamp may well have the last laugh. She examines how he interpreted notions of mechanical reproduction in order to redefine the meaning and value of the art object, the artist, and artistic production.Judovitz begins with Duchamp's supposed abandonment of painting and his subsequent return to material that mimics art without being readily classifiable as such. Her book questions his paradoxical renunciation of pictorial and artistic conventions while continuing to evoke and speculatively draw upon them. She offers insightful analyses of his major works including The Large Glass, Fountain and Given 1) the waterfall, 2) the illuminating gas.Duchamp, a poser and solver of problems, occupied himself with issues of genre, gender, and representation. His puns, double entendres, and word games become poetic machines, all part of his intellectual quest for the very limits of nature, culture, and perception. Judovitz demonstrates how Duchamp's redefinition of artistic modes of production through reproduction opens up modernism to more speculative explorations, while clearing the ground for the aesthetic of appropriation central to postmodernism. |
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UNINA9910131747203321 |
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L'impulso autobiografico : Inghilterra, Stati Uniti, Canada-- e altri ancora / / a cura di Michele Bottalico e Maria Teresa Chialant |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xviii, 301 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BottalicoMichele <1944-> |
ChialantMaria Teresa |
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Autobiographical fiction - History and criticism |
Autobiography |
Self in literature |
Literature - History and criticism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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A partire dai saggi di Roy Pascal e di Jean Starobinski negli anni Sessanta del '900, gli studi sul testo autobiografico hanno goduto di un nuovo impulso. La trasversalità di questo tipo di scrittura rispetto ad altre forme letterarie, le implicazioni ideologiche ed epistemologiche relative alla categoria di "verità" e l'enfasi posta sul carattere di costrutto linguistico dell'io che emerge dal racconto autobiografico sono alcuni dei presupposti teorici sui quali si è attestato il dibattito già da diversi anni. Questo volume esplora le modalità in cui prendono corpo le "grafie del sé" attraverso la lettura di testi appartenenti a varie tipologie di scrittura, dal diario alla lettera, dalle memorie all'autobiografia, o ad essa affini. |
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