Книга "The Future of Environmental Criticism" - это манифест, написанный одним из ведущих теоретиков в области экокритики. Она представляет собой критическое обозрение движения экокритики, новой дисциплины, изучающей отношения между литературой и окружающей средой. Автор прослеживает историю экокритического движения от его возникновения в 1970-х годах до сегодняшних дней и учитывает разные направления в экокритике. В книге описываются основные напряжения в экокритике и рассматриваются критические замечания по поводу движения. Автор смотрит в будущее экокритики и предлагает, чтобы дискурсы об окружающей среде стали постоянной частью литературных и культурных исследований.
This seminal volume offers an up-to-date analysis of trends in contemporary and historical environmental criticism, providing simplified terminology, summaries of theories, and critical interpretations of current debates. Authors included in this volume include professed leaders in the field of environmental criticism, literary scholars, teachers, and graduate students. They provide a balanced mixture of essays from both the American and European academic contexts taking this emergence of precisely this subset of literary scholarship forward. For the intrensic acknowledgement and interpretation of environmental techniques, as well as valuable suggestions for the use in ecotextual study and English classes. It is a must read for any budding literary critic.For general readers it offers rich insights into the texts we all take for granted, in tandem with ecologial concerns that are encoded within these often unnoticed literary devices.
Written by some of the leading theoretical experts on environmental issues, this publication provides a comprehensive analysis of the development of environmental criticism. It traces the origins of environmental critique back to the 1970's, and examines its current diversification into various branches. Besides, it spots different editorial approaches to providing environmental commentary and describes the major controversies faced by environmental criticism. More intriguingly, the book posits that understanding of environmental topics should be permanently integrated into the realm of literary studies.
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Язык: Английский
ISBN: 9781405151979
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Written by one of the world’s leading theorists in ecocriticism, this manifesto provides a critical summary of the ecocritical movement. A critical summary of the emerging discipline of “ecocriticism”. Written by one of the world’s leading theorists in ecocriticism. Traces the history of the ecocritical movement from its roots in the 1970s through to its diversification and proliferation today. Takes account of different ecocritical positions and directions. Describes major tensions within ecocriticism and addresses major criticisms of the movement. Looks to the future of ecocriticism, proposing that discourses of the environment should become a permanent part of literary and cultural studies.
