Persuasive aesthetic ecocritical praxis : climate change, subsistence, and questionable futures / / Patrick D. Murphy
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| Autore: |
Murphy Patrick D. <1951->
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| Titolo: |
Persuasive aesthetic ecocritical praxis : climate change, subsistence, and questionable futures / / Patrick D. Murphy
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , [2015] |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (215 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/36 |
| Soggetto topico: | Ecocriticism |
| American literature - History and criticism | |
| Ecology in literature | |
| Philosophy of nature in literature | |
| Ecofeminism in literature | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: Continuing the transversal ecocritical praxis project -- The question of aesthetic praxis: if literature and art are propaganda, what is ecocritical analysis? -- Back to concerns about the future: Susan Fenimore Cooper and rural hours -- Pessimism, optimism, human inertia and anthropogenic climate change -- Directing the weather, producing the climate -- Buying agriculture, selling starvation and the failure of business-as-usual in a dystopic future -- Viewing the far fields through an ecofeminist subsistence perspective in an age of land grabs -- From consumables to sustenance through an ecofeminist sufficiency reorientation -- Listening for a way out through a deep yearning for a resounding relationship -- The role of women and gender equality in creating ecotopia. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Persuasive Aesthetic Ecocritical Praxis analyzes environmental literature and film from a tranversal ecocritical orientation with a focus on the aesthetic dimensions in terms of persuasive affects. It emphasizes attention to crucial themes, such as climate change, land dispossession, and differential gender impacts of global economics, as well as scenarios of possible sustainable futures. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Persuasive aesthetic ecocritical praxis |
| ISBN: | 1-4985-1484-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910808990503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Ecocritical theory and practice.