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Autore |
Murphy Patrick D. <1951-> |
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Transversal ecocritical praxis [[electronic resource]] : theoretical arguments, literary analysis, and cultural critique / / Patrick D. Murphy |
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Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (193 p.) |
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Collana |
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Ecocritical Theory and Practice |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ecocriticism |
Ecology - Economic aspects - United States |
Philosophy of nature in literature |
Ecology in literature |
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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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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Dialoguing with Bakhtin on Our Ethical Responsibility to Anothers; Chapter Two: Furnishing the Study for Performing the Household by Resolving Static Cling; Chapter Three: Subjects, Identities, Bodies, and Selves; Chapter Four: An Ecological Feminist Revisioning of the Masculinist Sublime; Chapter Five: Consumption as Addiction, Sustainability as Recovery; Chapter Six: Community Resilience and the Cosmopolitan Role in the Environmental Challenge-Response Novels of Ghosh, Grace, and Sinha |
Chapter Seven: The Poetic Politics of Ecological Inhabitation in Neruda's Canto General and Cardenal's Cosmic CanticleChapter Eight: The Dilemma of Terraforming in Three Parts; Chapter Nine: Damning Damming Modernity; Chapter Ten: Preparing on the Plateau of Peak Oil for a Post-Carbon Economy in Okinawa; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In Transversal Ecocritical Praxis: Theoretical Arguments, Literary Analysis, and Cultural Critique, Patrick D. Murphy, Ph.D, utilizes ecocriticism and ecofeminism to develop his concept of transversal practice: an interdisciplinary combination of theory and applied criticism. Traversing a wide range of examples, literary, cultural and economic, this work fleshes out the benefits of an ethically grounded |
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