|
Showing 1 - 3 of
3 matches in All Departments
With twelve original essays that characterize truly international
ecocriticisms, New International Voices in Ecocriticism presents a
compendium of ecocritical approaches, including ecocritical theory,
ecopoetics, ecocritical analyses of literary, cultural, and musical
texts (especially those not commonly studied in mainstream
ecocriticism), and new critical vistas on human-nonhuman relations,
postcolonial subjects, material selves, gender, and queer
ecologies. It develops new perspectives on literature, culture, and
the environment. The essays, written by contributors from the
United States, Canada, Germany, Turkey, Spain, China, India, and
South Africa, cover novels, drama, autobiography, music, and
poetry, mixing traditional and popular forms. Popular culture and
the production and circulation of cultural imaginaries feature
prominently in this volume-how people view their world and the
manner in which they share their perspectives, including the way
these perspectives challenge each other globally and locally. In
this sense the book also probes borders, border transgression, and
border permeability. By offering diverse ecocritical approaches,
the essays affirm the significance and necessity of international
perspectives in environmental humanities, and thus offer unique
responses to environmental problems and that, in some sense, affect
many beginning and established scholars.
Post-Theories in Literary and Cultural Studies focuses on the
shifting paradigms in literary and cultural studies. Prompted by
the changes and problems on the global scale, the last two decades
have seen a resurgence of scholarly interest in theories which are
more embedded in the social realities and human condition. This
volume shows that theory can reinvent theory and re-define
criticism according to the demands of the new millennium. In this
context, it examines new ways of considering the relation of
post-theory to the concepts such as ethics, aesthetics, truth,
value, authenticity, human, and reality to understand the mindset
of the new century. Without disregarding or neglecting the legacy
of "Theory," this volume presents the various suggestions and
concerns of post-theoretical studies that reflect the sensibilities
of the contemporary social and cultural life. It is a timely and
relevant source of reference to those who wish to develop an
understanding of this change of attitude in post-theoretical
studies towards a more directly and sincerely responsive approach
to the current problems worldwide, their representations in
literature and language, reflections in theory, roots in
socio-political domains, and effects on the material reality.
With twelve original essays that characterize truly international
ecocriticisms, New International Voices in Ecocriticism presents a
compendium of ecocritical approaches, including ecocritical theory,
ecopoetics, ecocritical analyses of literary, cultural, and musical
texts (especially those not commonly studied in mainstream
ecocriticism), and new critical vistas on human-nonhuman relations,
postcolonial subjects, material selves, gender, and queer
ecologies. It develops new perspectives on literature, culture, and
the environment. The essays, written by contributors from the
United States, Canada, Germany, Turkey, Spain, China, India, and
South Africa, cover novels, drama, autobiography, music, and
poetry, mixing traditional and popular forms. Popular culture and
the production and circulation of cultural imaginaries feature
prominently in this volume-how people view their world and the
manner in which they share their perspectives, including the way
these perspectives challenge each other globally and locally. In
this sense the book also probes borders, border transgression, and
border permeability. By offering diverse ecocritical approaches,
the essays affirm the significance and necessity of international
perspectives in environmental humanities, and thus offer unique
responses to environmental problems and that, in some sense, affect
many beginning and established scholars.
|
|