Material ecocriticism / / edited by Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann

• Pubblicazione: Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (376 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.9336
• Soggetto topico: Ecocriticism; Materialism; Ecology in literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): IovinoSerenella <1971->; OppermannSerpil
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-338) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Stories Come to Matter""; ""Part 1. Theories and Relations""; ""1 From Ecological Postmodernism to Material Ecocriticism: Creative Materiality and Narrative Agency""; ""2 Limits of Agency: Notes on the Material Turn from a Systems-Theoretical Perspective""; ""3 Creative Matter and Creative Mind: Cultural Ecology and Literary Creativity""; ""4 Natural Play, Natural Metaphor, and Natural Stories: Biosemiotic Realism""; ""5 The Ecology of Colors: Goetheâ€?s Materialist Optics and Ecological Posthumanism"" ; ""Part 2. Narratives of Matter""""6 Bodies of Naples: Stories, Matter, and the Landscapes of Porosity""; ""7 When It Rains""; ""8 Painful Material Realities, Tragedy, Ecophobia""; ""9 Semiotization of Matter: A Hybrid Zone between Biosemiotics and Material Ecocriticism""; ""Part 3. Politics of Matter""; ""10 Pro/Polis: Three Forays into the Political Lives of Bees""; ""11 Excremental Ecocriticism and the Global Sanitation Crisis""; ""12 Oceanic Origins, Plastic Activism, and New Materialism at Sea""; ""13 Meditations on Natural Worlds, Disabled Bodies, and a Politics of Cure"" ; ""Part 4. Poetics of Matter""""14 Corporeal Fieldwork and Risky Art: Peter Goin and the Making of Nuclear Landscapes""; ""15 Of Material Sympathies, Paracelsus, and Whitman""; ""16 Source of Life: Avatar, Amazonia, and an Ecology of Selves""; ""17 The Liminal Space between Things: Epiphany and the Physical""; ""Coda. Open Closure A Diptych on Material Spirituality""; ""18 Spirits That Matter: Pathways toward a Rematerialization of Religion and Spirituality""; ""19 Mindful New Materialisms: Buddhist Roots for Material Ecocriticismâ€?s Flourishing""; ""Afterword: The Commonwealth of Breath"" ; ""Works Cited""""List of Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
• Sommario/riassunto: "Ecocriticsim is the study of literature and the environment from an interdisciplinary point of view, coming together to analyze the environment and determine possible solutions for the correction of the contemporary environmental situation. The discipline was heralded by publication of The Ecocrticism Reader (U Georgia, 1996) and Lawrence Buell's The Environmental Imagination (Harvard, 1995). Recently, all kinds of "texts" have been subjected to ecocritical methods (film, TV, scientific narrative, and architecture as well as nature writing and Romantic poetry) and questions about place (see our Getting Back into Place, 2nd ed., 2009), materialism (agency, process, and relationship), grounding in the natural sciences, and philosophical precision have defined the movement. This edited volume aims to bring ecocriticism closer to the material turn. The essays collected here focus on material entanglements, the agency of things, processes, and making meaning out of matter and things. It is an effective an broad-ranging reflection on contemporary human experience and human expression about the world to which we are intimately connected. Boith Iovino and Opperman are well know as ecocrtical theorists. They have collected essays from many of the stars in the discipline and this volume should set a new benchmark for the field"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Material ecocriticism
• ISBN: 0-253-01400-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460925903321
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