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Shakespeare and the Evolution of the Human Umwelt - Adapt, Interpret, Mutate (Hardcover)
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Shakespeare and the Evolution of the Human Umwelt - Adapt, Interpret, Mutate (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media
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Shakespeare and the Evolution of the Human Umwelt brings together
research on Shakespeare, biosemiotics, ecocriticism, epigenetics
and actor network theory as it explores the space between nature
and narrative in an effort to understand how human bodies are
stories told in the emergent language of evolution, and how those
bodies became storytellers themselves. Chapters consider
Shakespeare's plays and contemporary works, such as those of
Barbara Kingsolver and Margaret Atwood, or productions for which
Shakespeare is a genetic forebear, as evolutionary artefacts which
have helped to shape the human umwelt-the species-specific
linguistic habitat that humans share in common. The work
investigates the juncture where semisphere meets biosphere and
illuminates the role that narrative plays in our construction of
the world we occupy. The plays of Shakespeare, as works that have
had unparalleled cultural diffusion, are uniquely situated to speak
to the ways in which ideas and the texts they use as vehicles are
always material, always environmental, and always alive. The book
discusses Shakespeare's works as vital nodes in our cultural,
historical, moral and philosophical networks, but also as
environmental actors in and of themselves. Plays are presented
alternately as digitally encoded bits of culture awaiting their
connection to an analog world, or as bacteria interacting with
living organisms in both productive and destructive ways, altering
their structure and creating new meaning through movement that is
simultaneously biological and poetic. This book will be of great
interest to students and scholars of ecocriticism looking to model
ecocritical readings and bridge gaps between scientific,
philosophical and literary thinking.
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