Green Matters : Ecocultural Functions of Literature (Nature, Culture and Literature)

Löschnigg, Maria (EDT)/ Braunecker, Melanie (EDT)

Brill（2019/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 386 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004408869

Full Description

Green Matters offers a fascinating insight into the regenerative function of literature with regard to environmental concerns. Based on recent developments in ecocriticism, the book demonstrates how the aesthetic dimension of literary texts makes them a vital force in the struggle for sustainable futures. Applying this understanding to individual works from a number of different thematic fields, cultural contexts and literary genres, Green Matters presents novel approaches to the manifold ways in which literature can make a difference. While the first sections of the book highlight the transnational, the focus on Canada in the last section allows a more specific exploration of how themes, genres and literary forms develop their own manifestations within a national context. Through its unifying ecocultural focus and its variegated approaches, the volume is an essential contribution to contemporary environmental humanities.

Contents

 Notes on Contributors

Part 1: Introduction and Theoretical Frame

 1Introduction to the Volume

  Melanie Braunecker and Maria Löschnigg

 2The Function of Literature in Environmental Discourses

  Maria Löschnigg

 3Literature and/as Cultural Ecology

  Hubert Zapf

Part 2: Literature and the Environment: Past and Present

 4Representing the Environment in Victorian, Modern, and Postcolonial Fictions: Three Maritime Canadian Novels

  David Creelman

 5'On the Edge of Humanism': Travel Writing at the Intersection of Environmental Concerns

  Halia Koo

 6James Joyce's Ulysses: Vampires, 'Fake News', and the Approaching Global Environmental Hunger Crisis

  Bonnie Roos

Part 3: New Approaches to Climate Fiction

 7Cli-Fi - Genre of the Twenty-First Century? Narrative Strategies in Contemporary Climate Fiction and Film

  Axel Goodbody

 8Western American Cli-Fi: The Biosemiotics of Ecophrasis

  Alex Hunt

 9Allegory and Human Nature in Ian McEwan's Solar

  Johannes Wally

 10Un/doing Climate Change in Alexis Wright's The Swan Book and Ellen van Neerven's 'Water'

  Iva Polak

 11Abject Permanence: Apocalyptic Narratives and the Horror of Persistence

  Heather Duncan and Eleanor Gold

Part 4: Creative Criticism

 12Imagination and the Eco-social Crisis (or: Why I Write Creative Non-fiction)

  Julia Martin

 13'When we walked on the backs of fish': A Writer's Environmental Path in the Creation of Multi-dimensional Narratives

  Marilyn Bowering

 14The Multi-genre Multimedia Disjunctive Poetic Narrative Dream Text: 'New Epic' Attentions in Contemporary Canadian Experimental Writing

  Di Brandt

Part 5: Special Focus: Canadian Contexts

 15Native Knowledge Systems and the Cultural Ecology of Literature

  Maria Löschnigg

 16Climate Change Drama across Time and Space: Chantal Bilodeau's Forward (2016)

  Nassim Winnie Balestrini

 17The Lure of Fast Money: Staging Fort McMurray

  Melanie Braunecker

 18carried away on the crest of a wave - A Play of Hope by David Yee

  Albert Rau

 19Where the Wild Things Are: The Role of Animals in Canadian Schoolbooks

  Claire E. Smerdon

 20Two Tragic Tales of Ursus canadensis: Animal Perspectives in Charles G.D. Roberts' The Heart of the Ancient Wood and Antonine Maillet's L'Oursiade

  Konrad Gro

 Index