The Ecology of Wonder in Romantic and Postmodern Literature / / by Louise Economides
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| Autore: |
Economides Louise
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| Titolo: |
The Ecology of Wonder in Romantic and Postmodern Literature / / by Louise Economides
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2016. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (222 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 820.9145 |
| Soggetto topico: | British literature |
| Postmodernism (Literature) | |
| Literature, Modern—20th century | |
| Literature, Modern—19th century | |
| British and Irish Literature | |
| Postmodern Literature | |
| Twentieth-Century Literature | |
| Nineteenth-Century Literature | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: Wonder, Nature and Romanticism’s Forgotten Way -- Chapter 1: Wonder and Romantic Ecology -- Chapter 2: Romanticism, Scientific Wonders, and the Technological Sublime -- Chapter 3: The Environmental Sublime and Ecological Melancholy -- Chapter 4: Wonder and Technē in an Age of Ecological Risk. . |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book traces the aesthetic of wonder from the romantic period through contemporary philosophy and literature, arguing for its relevance to ecological consciousness. Most ecocritical scholarship tends to overshadow discussions of wonder with the sublime, failing to treat these two aesthetic categories as distinct. As a result, contemporary scholarship has conflated wonder and the sublime and ultimately lost the nuances that these two concepts conjure for readers and thinkers. Economides illuminates important differences between these aesthetics, particularly their negotiation of issues relevant to gender-based and environmental politics. In turn, readers can utilize the concept of wonder as an open-ended, non-violent framework in contrast to the ethos of domination that often surrounds the sublime. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Ecology of Wonder in Romantic and Postmodern Literature |
| ISBN: | 1-137-47750-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910255256203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment