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
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Sep-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501783241)
This book considers the influence of Piers Plowman on Edmund Spensers writing about Ireland. It traces the interaction of medieval husbandry manuals with poetry about agrarian land and labor and shows how these related traditions shape the formati...Lasīt vairāk
The Work of Reform interweaves literary, economic, and environmental history to trace the influence that William Langlands harsh vision of enforced agrarian labor in Piers Plowman had on later medieval and ea...Lasīt vairāk
In this expansive history Ellen F. Arnold uses saints lives and miracle stories, poetry, charters, chronicles, and historical narratives to examine how rivers were imagined and ascribed meaning c. 3001100 CE. Focusing on storytelling across centuri...Lasīt vairāk
This volume explores the variable meanings and discourses of historical and contemporary pandemics to rethink theories and practices of planetary health.Rather than conflating the planetary with anthropogenic climate change, planetary geo-e...Lasīt vairāk
This book presents an innovative and imaginative reading of contemporary Australian literature in the context of unprecedented ecological crisis.The Australian continent has seen significant, rapid changes to its cultures and land-use from...Lasīt vairāk
This book looks at representations of nature in popular art and media, including fiction, to trace its construction in Western culture as justly vengeful. By depicting nature as monstrous, abject, or apocalyptic, these works lead popular audiences t...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 27-May-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9781683405030)
This volume explores the centrality of the natural world in shaping Brazilian literature, cinema, and art from 1900 to the present, portraying the human connection to nature in the most biodiverse country in the world-- This volume ex...Lasīt vairāk
The book explores environmental issues in twenty-first century Anglophone fiction and how those issues are dealt with by specific literary means. It proposes a reciprocal relationship between nature and narrative-the idea according to which nature b...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Apr-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501780967)
Botanical Imagination explores the complicated legacy and enduring lure of plant life in modern Japanese literature and media. Using critical plant studies, Jon L. Pitt examines an unlikely group of writers and filmmakers in m...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines Japanese writers and filmmakers who have responded to moments of crisis in Japans modern period by imagining what it would mean for humans to be more like plants.-- Botanical Imagination explores the...Lasīt vairāk
A unique and luminous exploration of the changing landscapes of the UK, the long-awaited new book from the author of the hugely acclaimed The Long, Long Life of Trees...Lasīt vairāk
