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The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities provides a
comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to the
field, offering a broad overview of its founding principles while
providing insight into exciting new directions for future
scholarship. Articulating the significance of humanistic
perspectives for our collective social engagement with ecological
crises, the volume explores the potential of the environmental
humanities for organizing humanistic research, opening up new forms
of interdisciplinarity, and shaping public debate and policies on
environmental issues. Sections cover: The Anthropocene and the
Domestication of Earth Posthumanism and Multispecies Communities
Inequality and Environmental Justice Decline and Resilience:
Environmental Narratives, History, and Memory Environmental Arts,
Media, and Technologies The State of the Environmental Humanities
The first of its kind, this companion covers essential issues and
themes, necessarily crossing disciplines within the humanities and
with the social and natural sciences. Exploring how the
environmental humanities contribute to policy and action concerning
some of the key intellectual, social, and environmental challenges
of our times, the chapters offer an ideal guide to this rapidly
developing field.
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Literature and Food Studies (Paperback)
Allison Carruth; Series edited by Guillermina de Ferrari; Amy Tigner; Series edited by Ursula Heise
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R1,166
Discovery Miles 11 660
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Literature and Food Studies introduces readers to a growing
interdisciplinary field by examining literary genres and cultural
movements as they engage with the edible world and, in turn,
illuminate transnational histories of empire, domesticity,
scientific innovation, and environmental transformation and
degradation. With a focus on the Americas and Europe, Literature
and Food Studies compares works of imaginative literature, from
Ovid's Metamorphoses and Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale to James
Joyce's Ulysses and Toni Morrison's Tar Baby, with what the authors
define as vernacular literary practices-which take written form as
horticultural manuals, recipes, cookbooks, restaurant reviews,
agricultural manifestos, dietary treatises, and culinary guides.
For those new to its principal subject, Literature and Food Studies
introduces core concepts in food studies that span anthropology,
geography, history, literature, and other fields; it compares
canonical literary texts with popular forms of print culture; and
it aims to inspire future research and teaching. Combining a
cultural studies approach to foodways and food systems with textual
analysis and archival research, the book offers an engaging and
lucid introduction for humanities scholars and students to the
rapidly expanding field of food studies.
Why do animals talk in literature? In this provocative book, Mario
Ortiz Robles tracks the presence of animals across an expansive
literary archive to argue that literature cannot be understood as a
human endeavor apart from its capacity to represent animals.
Focusing on the literary representation of familiar animals,
including horses, dogs, cats, and songbirds, Ortiz Robles examines
the various tropes literature has historically employed to give
meaning to our fraught relations with other animals. Beyond
allowing us to imagine the lives of non-humans, literature can make
a lasting contribution to Animal Studies, an emerging discipline
within the humanities, by showing us that there is something
fictional about our relation to animals. Literature and Animal
Studies combines a broad mapping of literary animals with detailed
readings of key animal texts to offer a new way of organizing
literary history that emphasizes genera over genres and a new way
of classifying animals that is premised on tropes rather than taxa.
The book makes us see animals and our relation to them with fresh
eyes and, in doing so, prompts us to review the role of literature
in a culture that considers it an endangered art form.
Literature and Disability introduces readers to the field of
disability studies and the ways in which a focus on issues of
impairment and the representation of disability can provide new
approaches to reading and writing about literary texts. Disability
plays a central role in much of the most celebrated literature, yet
it is only in recent years that literary criticism has begun to
consider the aesthetic, ethical and literary challenges that this
poses. The author explores: key debates and issues in disability
studies today different forms of impairment, with the aim of
showing the diversity and ambiguity of the term "disability" the
intersection between literary critical approaches to disability and
feminist, post-colonial, and autobiographical writing genre and
representations of disability in relation to literary forms
including novels, short stories, poems, plays and life writing This
volume provides students and academics with an accessible overview
of literary critical approaches to disability representation.
Futures of Comparative Literature is a cutting edge report on the
state of the discipline in Comparative Literature. Offering a broad
spectrum of viewpoints from all career stages, a variety of
different institutions, and many language backgrounds, this
collection is fully global and diverse. The book includes
previously unpublished interviews with key figures in the
discipline as well as a range of different essays - short pieces on
key topics and longer, in-depth pieces. It is divided into seven
sections: Futures of Comparative Literature; Theories, Histories,
Methods; Worlds; Areas and Regions; Languages, Vernaculars,
Translations; Media; Beyond the Human; and contains over 50 essays
on topics such as: Queer Reading; Human Rights; Fundamentalism;
Untranslatability; Big Data; Environmental Humanities. It also
includes current facts and figures from the American Comparative
Literature Association as well as a very useful general
introduction, situating and introducing the material. Curated by an
expert editorial team, this book captures what is at stake in the
study of Comparative Literature today.
Literature and Materialisms sheds light on the current new wave of
materialisms and assesses the impact on literary theory and
criticism. It maps the similarities and differences between
speculative realism, object-oriented philosophy, and vitalism. A
genealogy of materialisms, vitalisms, empiricisms, and realist
approaches - from Heraclitus to Badiou, including Lucretius,
Spinoza, Marx, Althusser, Barad, Spivak, Deleuze, Bennett, Harman,
and other contemporary thinkers - puts these new trends into
perspective. This book investigates the relations between
literature - from Marquis de Sade to objectivist poetry - and
materialism and analyses the material aspects of literature, its
structure and texture, its commodification and its capacity to
resist market imperatives. It explores how literary style might be
understood as a mediation between the 'immaterial' and the concrete
features of a text. This volume provides students and academics
with an accessible overview of the study of literature and
materialism.
Literature and Materialisms sheds light on the current new wave of
materialisms and assesses the impact on literary theory and
criticism. It maps the similarities and differences between
speculative realism, object-oriented philosophy, and vitalism. A
genealogy of materialisms, vitalisms, empiricisms, and realist
approaches - from Heraclitus to Badiou, including Lucretius,
Spinoza, Marx, Althusser, Barad, Spivak, Deleuze, Bennett, Harman,
and other contemporary thinkers - puts these new trends into
perspective. This book investigates the relations between
literature - from Marquis de Sade to objectivist poetry - and
materialism and analyses the material aspects of literature, its
structure and texture, its commodification and its capacity to
resist market imperatives. It explores how literary style might be
understood as a mediation between the 'immaterial' and the concrete
features of a text. This volume provides students and academics
with an accessible overview of the study of literature and
materialism.
Futures of Comparative Literature is a cutting edge report on the
state of the discipline in Comparative Literature. Offering a broad
spectrum of viewpoints from all career stages, a variety of
different institutions, and many language backgrounds, this
collection is fully global and diverse. The book includes
previously unpublished interviews with key figures in the
discipline as well as a range of different essays - short pieces on
key topics and longer, in-depth pieces. It is divided into seven
sections: Futures of Comparative Literature; Theories, Histories,
Methods; Worlds; Areas and Regions; Languages, Vernaculars,
Translations; Media; Beyond the Human; and contains over 50 essays
on topics such as: Queer Reading; Human Rights; Fundamentalism;
Untranslatability; Big Data; Environmental Humanities. It also
includes current facts and figures from the American Comparative
Literature Association as well as a very useful general
introduction, situating and introducing the material. Curated by an
expert editorial team, this book captures what is at stake in the
study of Comparative Literature today.
Literature and Disability introduces readers to the field of
disability studies and the ways in which a focus on issues of
impairment and the representation of disability can provide new
approaches to reading and writing about literary texts. Disability
plays a central role in much of the most celebrated literature, yet
it is only in recent years that literary criticism has begun to
consider the aesthetic, ethical and literary challenges that this
poses. The author explores: key debates and issues in disability
studies today different forms of impairment, with the aim of
showing the diversity and ambiguity of the term "disability" the
intersection between literary critical approaches to disability and
feminist, post-colonial, and autobiographical writing genre and
representations of disability in relation to literary forms
including novels, short stories, poems, plays and life writing This
volume provides students and academics with an accessible overview
of literary critical approaches to disability representation.
Why do animals talk in literature? In this provocative book, Mario
Ortiz Robles tracks the presence of animals across an expansive
literary archive to argue that literature cannot be understood as a
human endeavor apart from its capacity to represent animals.
Focusing on the literary representation of familiar animals,
including horses, dogs, cats, and songbirds, Ortiz Robles examines
the various tropes literature has historically employed to give
meaning to our fraught relations with other animals. Beyond
allowing us to imagine the lives of non-humans, literature can make
a lasting contribution to Animal Studies, an emerging discipline
within the humanities, by showing us that there is something
fictional about our relation to animals. Literature and Animal
Studies combines a broad mapping of literary animals with detailed
readings of key animal texts to offer a new way of organizing
literary history that emphasizes genera over genres and a new way
of classifying animals that is premised on tropes rather than taxa.
The book makes us see animals and our relation to them with fresh
eyes and, in doing so, prompts us to review the role of literature
in a culture that considers it an endangered art form.
Literature and Emotion not only provides a defining overview of the
field but also engages with emerging trends. Answering key
questions such as 'What is emotion?' and 'Why emotion and
literature today?,' Patrick Colm Hogan presents a clear and
accessible introduction to this exciting topic. Readers should come
away from the book with a systematic understanding of recent
research on and theorization of emotion, knowledge of the way
affective science has impacted literary study, and a sense of how
to apply that understanding and knowledge to literary works.
Literature and Emotion not only provides a defining overview of the
field but also engages with emerging trends. Answering key
questions such as 'What is emotion?' and 'Why emotion and
literature today?,' Patrick Colm Hogan presents a clear and
accessible introduction to this exciting topic. Readers should come
away from the book with a systematic understanding of recent
research on and theorization of emotion, knowledge of the way
affective science has impacted literary study, and a sense of how
to apply that understanding and knowledge to literary works.
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Literature and Food Studies (Hardcover)
Allison Carruth; Series edited by Guillermina de Ferrari; Amy Tigner; Series edited by Ursula Heise
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R4,134
Discovery Miles 41 340
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Literature and Food Studies introduces readers to a growing
interdisciplinary field by examining literary genres and cultural
movements as they engage with the edible world and, in turn,
illuminate transnational histories of empire, domesticity,
scientific innovation, and environmental transformation and
degradation. With a focus on the Americas and Europe, Literature
and Food Studies compares works of imaginative literature, from
Ovid's Metamorphoses and Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale to James
Joyce's Ulysses and Toni Morrison's Tar Baby, with what the authors
define as vernacular literary practices-which take written form as
horticultural manuals, recipes, cookbooks, restaurant reviews,
agricultural manifestos, dietary treatises, and culinary guides.
For those new to its principal subject, Literature and Food Studies
introduces core concepts in food studies that span anthropology,
geography, history, literature, and other fields; it compares
canonical literary texts with popular forms of print culture; and
it aims to inspire future research and teaching. Combining a
cultural studies approach to foodways and food systems with textual
analysis and archival research, the book offers an engaging and
lucid introduction for humanities scholars and students to the
rapidly expanding field of food studies.
The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities provides a
comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to the
field, offering a broad overview of its founding principles while
providing insight into exciting new directions for future
scholarship. Articulating the significance of humanistic
perspectives for our collective social engagement with ecological
crises, the volume explores the potential of the environmental
humanities for organizing humanistic research, opening up new forms
of interdisciplinarity, and shaping public debate and policies on
environmental issues. Sections cover: The Anthropocene and the
Domestication of Earth Posthumanism and Multispecies Communities
Inequality and Environmental Justice Decline and Resilience:
Environmental Narratives, History, and Memory Environmental Arts,
Media, and Technologies The State of the Environmental Humanities
The first of its kind, this companion covers essential issues and
themes, necessarily crossing disciplines within the humanities and
with the social and natural sciences. Exploring how the
environmental humanities contribute to policy and action concerning
some of the key intellectual, social, and environmental challenges
of our times, the chapters offer an ideal guide to this rapidly
developing field.
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Ecocriticism in Japan (Paperback)
Hisaaki Wake, Keijiro Suga, Yuki Masami; Contributions by Alex Bates, Koichi Haga, …
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R1,602
Discovery Miles 16 020
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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What can ecocriticism do when engaging with Japanese literature and
culture? This edited volume Ecocriticism in Japan attempts to
answer this question. The contributors place themselves inside the
domestic fields of production of works of art and express their
concerns and ideas for the English-speaking spheres of the world.
Taking up subjects ranging from the eleventh-century novel The Tale
of Genji, an early twentieth-century writer Taoka Reiun, the
post-WWII atomic bombing literature by women, the
internationally-renowned Abe Kōbō, the Nobel laureate Ōe
Kenzaburō, the world-widely popular writer Murakami Haruki, the
Minamata writer Ishimure Michiko, and the anime artist Miyazaki
Hayao to the recent TV anime Coppelion, a production that foresaw a
devastating nuclear disaster after the Great East Japan Earthquake,
this volume extricates and discusses innate, complex values of
Japanese people and culture in terms of nature and environment.
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Ecocriticism in Japan (Hardcover)
Hisaaki Wake, Keijiro Suga, Yuki Masami; Contributions by Alex Bates, Koichi Haga, …
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R3,845
Discovery Miles 38 450
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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What can ecocriticism do when engaging with Japanese literature and
culture? This edited volume Ecocriticism in Japan attempts to
answer this question. The contributors place themselves inside the
domestic fields of production of works of art and express their
concerns and ideas for the English-speaking spheres of the world.
Taking up subjects ranging from the eleventh-century novel The Tale
of Genji, an early twentieth-century writer Taoka Reiun, the
post-WWII atomic bombing literature by women, the
internationally-renowned Abe Kobo, the Nobel laureate Oe Kenzaburo,
the world-widely popular writer Murakami Haruki, the Minamata
writer Ishimure Michiko, and the anime artist Miyazaki Hayao to the
recent TV anime Coppelion, a production that foresaw a devastating
nuclear disaster after the Great East Japan Earthquake, this volume
extricates and discusses innate, complex values of Japanese people
and culture in terms of nature and environment.
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