The Literature of Waste - Material Ecopoetics and Ethical Matter (Hardcover)

Tracing material and metaphoric waste through the Western canon, ranging from Beowulf to Samuel Beckett, Susan Signe Morrison disrupts traditional perceptions of waste to better understand how we theorize, manage, and are implicated in what is discarded and seen as garbage. Engaging a wide range of disciplines, Morrison addresses how the materiality of waste has been sedimented into a variety of toxic metaphors. If scholars can read waste as possessing dynamic agency, how might that change the ethics of refuse-ing and ostracizing wasted humans? A major contribution to the growing field of Waste Studies, this comparative and theoretically innovative book confronts the reader with the ethical urgency present in waste literature itself.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2015
First published:	2015
Authors:	S. Morrison
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	330
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-40566-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
LSN:	1-137-40566-X
Barcode:	9781137405661

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