A Global History of Literature and the Environment

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A Global History of Literature and the Environment : edited by John Parham and Louise Westling

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Parham, John (Editor), Westling, Louise (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	German
Published:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016
Edition:	1. Auflage
Subjects:	Literatur Natur <Motiv> Ökologie Ecocriticism Aufsatzsammlung
Contents/pieces:	26 records

1. Ancient Greek literature and the environment : a case study with Pindar's 'Olympian 7'

2. Eating life at a contaminated table : the narrative significance of toxic meals in contemporary Japan

3. Fantastic metabolisms : a materialist approach to modern eco-speculative fiction

4. "Who shall be a sustainer?" : Maize and human mediation in the Maya 'Popol Vuh'

5. Romantic ecology, aboriginal culture, and the ideology of improvement in British Atlantic literature

6. Petro-violence and the act of bearing witness in contemporary Nigerian literature

7. Commodity frontiers, Caribbean natures, and the aesthetics of ecological revolution in Trinidadian literature

8. I invoke god, therefore I am : creation's spirituality and its ecological impact in Islamic texts

9. Ecopoetics and the literature of ancient India

10. The natural world in ancient Mesopotamian literature

11. Black ants and bones : Nehruvian science and third-world environment in the fiction of Satyajit Ray

12. Natural history in the anthropocene

13. Remaking Eighteenth-Century ecologies : arboreal mobility

14. Climate and culture in Australia and New Zealand

15. The Garden of Eden in the Hebrew bible

16. From birds and trees to texts : an ecosemiotic look at Estonian nature writing

17. Bleak house, liquid city : climate to climax in Dickens

18. Brazilian women poets on gender, nature, and the body

19. Contemporary British poetry and the environment

20. Can environmental imagination save the world?

21. Rescuing nature from the nation : ecocritical (un)consciousness in modern Chinese culture

22. Environments of early Chinese and Japenese literatures

23. Ecological thought and literature in Europe and Germany

24. 'Viking' ecologies : Icelandic sagas, local knowledge and environmental memory

25. Modern English fiction

26. Human responses to the environment in Medieval literature