This book offers a material ecocritical rereading of late-Victorian science fiction and its depiction of the dynamic, agential reality with which humankind is inescapably entangled-- Provided by publisher. Adrian Tait argues that late...Lasīt vairāk
Can the blue-sky thinking of the Fantastic provide us with a useful tool for addressing what the United Nations calls the defining crisis of our time? A timely survey of the environmental aspects of Fantasy, with a unique focus on real-world sites a...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231213332)
Radical Romanticism is an intellectual history of the progressive democratic, religious, and environmental beliefs and practices that informed 18th- and 19th-century European Romantic literature and their subsequent and sustained legacies in North A...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Sep-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231213325)
Interweaving canonical nineteenth-century authors with Black and Indigenous thinkers who transformed their work, this book is a bold new account of Romanticism for todays deeply entrenched crises. Romanticism is often reduced to nostalgic pa...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines the complicated place of animals in literary analysis and education and shows how an ethically engaged approach to animals representation could be pursued to challenge anthropocentrism and cultivate multispecies empathy. Other...Lasīt vairāk
Examining contemporary literary depictions of environmental disasters through a NorthSouth axis, this book explores the resonances and dissonances between environmentalisms of marginalized communities in the U.S. and the global South. ...Lasīt vairāk
This volume explores late ancient and Byzantine media from an ecological view point and with a special focus on non-human agencies. From the ancient treatises on dreams to monastic tales, from the Hexameron literature to the Byzantine romance, from...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Aug-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032724195)
This volume examines scholarly perspectives on eco-imaginaries, focusing in particular on how eco-catastrophes have been represented in literature and different visual forms including film, television and cartoons, among other cultural media. It dra...Lasīt vairāk
More Worlds Collective, Joseph Masco, Tim Choy, Jake Kosek, M. Murphy
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478028840)
Fear of a Dead White Planet asks: How does one study when the planet is on fire? The More Worlds Collective challenges the contemporary rush to planetary technofixes for environmental emergency. Instead, it tracks how such planetary-science fr...Lasīt vairāk
More Worlds Collective, Joseph Masco, Tim Choy, Jake Kosek, M. Murphy
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Jul-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478032106)
Contending that contemporary study of the environment can often reproduce the violence it means to address, Fear of a Dead White Planet proposes a methodological shift that is place-based and allows for the conjuring of alternate worlds....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Jun-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Northwestern University Press, ISBN-13: 9780810148277)
Toward a Premodern Posthumanism: Anarchic Ontologies of Earthly Life in Modern France rethinks the being of nature, art, and politics via new readings of early modern aesthetic and scientific practices alongside classical and contemporary philosophe...Lasīt vairāk
Theatres of Compost places ecology at the center of performance scholarship and criticism, and it positions performance as a key cultural process for bringing about a more just and sustainable future.Examining a unique archive of...Lasīt vairāk
