New international voices in ecocriticism / / edited by Serpil Oppermann ; foreword by Scott Slovic ; afterword by Greta Gaard

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910963356703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2015]
• ISBN: 1-4985-0148-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 pages)
• Collana: Ecocritical theory and practice
• Disciplina: 809.9336; 809/.9336
• Soggetti: Ecocriticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: New Ecocritical Trends; 1 Selves at the Fringes; 2 Global Subcultural Bohemianism; 3 "What Is It about You . . . That So Irritates Me?"; 4 Bang Your Head and Save the Planet; II: Nature and Human Experience; 5 Un-natural Ecopoetics; 6 "There's No Place Like 'Home'"; 7 Against Ecological Kitsch; 8 Neo-Aranyakas; 9 Ecoerotic Imaginations in Early Modernity and Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure; III: Human-Nonhuman Relations; 10 What Are We? The Human Animal in Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape; 11 Familiar Animals; 12 Dismantling "Conceptual Straitjackets" in Peter Dickinson's EvaAfterword; Index; Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: <span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">New International Voices in Ecocriticism</span><span> presents a compendium of ecocritical approaches, including ecocritical theory, ecopoetics, ecocritical analyses of literary, cultural, and musical texts, and new critical vistas on human-nonhuman relations, postcolonial subjects, material selves, gender, and queer ecologies. </span></span>