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In Ecocritical Explorations, Patrick D. Murphy explores environmental literature and environmental cultural issues through both theoretical and applied criticism. He engages with the concepts of referentiality, simplicity, the nation state, and virtual reality in the first section of the book, and then goes on to interrogate these issues in contemporary environmental literature, both American and international. He concludes his argument with a discussion of the larger frames of family dynamics and un-natural disasters, such as hurricanes and global warming, ending with a chapter on the integration of scholarship and pedagogy in the classroom, with reference to his own teaching experiences.
Murphy's study provides a wide ranging discussion of contemporary literature and cultural phenomena through the lens of ecological literary criticism, giving attention to both theoretical issues and applied critiques. In particular, he looks at popular literary genres, such as mystery and science fiction, as well as actual disasters and disaster scenarios. Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies is a timely contribution to ecological literary criticism and an insightful look into how we represent our relationship with the environment.
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 Climbing Through Conceptual Fences
Chapter 3 The Complexity of Simplicity
Chapter 4 Difference and Responsibility in Literary Alternatives to Nation State
Chapter 5 Paradise or a Pair of Dice: Contradictions and Contingencies in Real and Virtual Terrains for Tomorrow's College Students
Chapter 6 Toward Transnational Ecocritical Theory: The Example of Hwa Yol Jung
Part 7 Surveying the Boundaries of Genre
Chapter 8 Nature in the Contemporary American Novel
Chapter 9 The Non-alibi of Alien Scapes: SF and Ecocriticism
Chapter 10 The Non-alibi of Pragmatic Utopianism and Wild Variability; or, Optimistic Variations on a Science Fiction Theme
Chapter 11 Mysteries of Nature and Environmental Justice
Part 12 Culturally Crossing the Field
Chapter 13 Nature Nurturing Fathers in a World beyond our Control
Chapter 14 Scenarios of Disaster: Crying Wolf, Scaring away the Elephants, and Heading 'Em off at the Pass
Chapter 15 Hurricanes and Hubris
Chapter 16 Ranging Widely to Find Home
