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Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture - Biology and the Bildungsroman (Paperback)
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Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture - Biology and the Bildungsroman (Paperback)
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Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture: Biology and the Bildungsroman
draws on work by Kinji Imanishi, Frans de Waal, and other
biologists to create an interdisciplinary, materialist notion of
culture for ecocritical analysis. In this timely intervention,
Feder examines the humanist idea of culture by taking a fresh look
at the stories it explicitly tells about itself. These stories fall
into the genre of the Bildungsroman, the tale of individual
acculturation that participates in the myth of its complete
separation from and opposition to nature which, Feder argues, is
culture's own origin story. Moving from Voltaire's Candide to Mary
Shelley's Frankenstein and from Virginia Woolf's Orlando to Jamaica
Kincaid's Lucy, the book dramatizes humanism's own awareness of the
fallacy of this foundational binary. In the final chapters, Feder
examines the discourse of animality at work in this narrative as a
humanist fantasy about empathy, one that paradoxically excludes
other animals from the ethical community to justify the continued
domination of both human and nonhuman others.
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