Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism
|
Buy Now
Italy and the Environmental Humanities - Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies (Paperback)
Loot Price: R1,085
Discovery Miles 10 850
|
|
Italy and the Environmental Humanities - Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies (Paperback)
Series: Under the Sign of Nature
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
Bringing together new writing by some of the field's most
compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the
first book to examine Italy-as a territory of both matter and
imagination-through the lens of the environmental humanities. The
contributors offer a wide spectrum of approaches-including
ecocriticism, film studies, environmental history and sociology,
eco-art, and animal and landscape studies-to move past cliche and
reimagine Italy as a hybrid, plural, eloquent place. Among the
topics investigated are post-seismic rubble and the stratifying
geosocial layers of the Anthropocene, the landscape connections in
the work of writers such as Calvino and Buzzati, the contaminated
fields of the ecomafia's trafficking, Slow Food's gastronomy of
liberation, poetic birds and historic forests, resident parasites,
and nonhuman creatures. At a time when the tension between the
local and the global requires that we reconsider our multiple roots
and porous place-identities, Italy and the Environmental Humanities
builds a creative critical discourse and offers a series of new
voices that will enrich not just nationally oriented discussions,
but the entire debate on environmental culture.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.