EAN: 9783825368432

ECOCRITICISM - ENVIRONMENTS IN ANGLOPHONE LITER...

During the past twenty-five years  ecocriticism has become an increasingly prolific field of
study. Broadly speaking  ecocriticism examines historically variable concepts of nature 
environments and ecological knowledge  arguing that these concepts are largely shaped by
discursive representations. The volume 'Ecocriticism - Environments in Anglophone Literatures'
explores the cultural  social  ethical and theoretical challenges that our understanding of
nature and environment pose from a perspective within literary studies. With particular
interest in Anglophone literatures  the volume takes stock of the state of the art in
ecocriticism and examines literary explorations of nature  environment  ecologies and
environmental knowledge with particular interest in Anglophone literatures. More specifically 
the volume sheds light on historicized and localized interrelationships between nature  culture
and literature and reveals how literary texts imagine new  possibly more sustainable
relationships between human beings and their nonhuman environments. Jointly  the essays provide
innovative and exciting perspectives on the aesthetic agency of literature as well as on the
intersections between ecocriticism and postcolonial studies. As the volume brings together a
wide range of interrelated perspectives on environments  ecocriticism and ethics in Anglophone
literatures  it also offers didactic impulses for rethinking the role of literature in the
Anthropocene.

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