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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821351003321

Autore

Murphy Patrick D. <1951->

Titolo

Transversal ecocritical praxis : theoretical arguments, literary analysis, and cultural critique / / Patrick D. Murphy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2013

ISBN

0-7391-8271-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Disciplina

810.9/355

Soggetti

Ecocriticism

Ecology - Economic aspects - United States

Philosophy of nature in literature

Ecology in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



interdisciplinary ecocriticism.