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Persuasive Aesthetic Ecocritical Praxis - Climate Change, Subsistence, and Questionable Futures (Hardcover)
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Persuasive Aesthetic Ecocritical Praxis - Climate Change, Subsistence, and Questionable Futures (Hardcover)
Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
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Persuasive Aesthetic Ecocritical Praxis continues Patrick D.
Murphy's focus on transversal ecocritical praxis by considering
literature and cinema in terms of the persuasive force of aesthetic
activity and whether or not artistic production and its criticism
can be considered forms of activism. Murphy argues that literature
and other forms of aesthetic production hold out the promise of
being able to move some individuals deeply through both affective
and intellectual engagement in ways that facilitate ideological
reflection. To analyze aesthetic production ecocritically requires
a transversal orientation in order to work continuously at
accommodating a vast array of often seemingly disparate
perspectives, disciplines, and contextual information, as well as
the ever changing thematic, plot, setting, and contextual elements
of the aesthetic works under consideration and the responses of
changing audiences through time and across cultures. Murphy
demonstrates this approach through presenting theories of
transversality and applying them with attention to issues of
propaganda, agitation, and persuasion, both in terms of artistic
production and the criticism of such production. He also brings an
ecofeminist orientation to the fore with particular attention to
the gendered economic aspects of environmental issues in an age of
land grabs and plantation economies. Along the way he treats a wide
range of literary works, films and miniseries. In American
literature he discusses realist and science fiction works, from
Susan Fenimore Cooper's Rural Hours to Paolo Bacigalupi's The
Windup Girl, Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior to Kim Stanley
Robinson's 2312, and Ana Castillo's So Far from God to Leslie
Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes. In international literature,
he analyzes Mo Yan's The Garlic Ballads, Jiang Rong's Wolft Totem,
Michiko Ishimure's The Lake of Heaven, Miyuki Miyabe's All She Was
Worth, and other novels. The book concludes with a reading of
Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia and Ecotopia Emerging, an Afterword
recommending further directions for transversal ecocritical
research an and interview that discusses Murphy's previous book,
Transversal Ecocritical Praxis, and provides some personal
background on the author.
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