Ecocritical Shakespeare
The first collection devoted specifically to green Shakespeare, this volume engages with pressing environmental questions in order to provide a better understanding of where and how ecocritical readings should be situated. Ecocritical Shakespeare combines multiple critical perspectives, juxtaposing historicism and presentism as well as considering ecofeminism and pedagogy. Topics addressed include early modern representations of flora and fauna, human-animal relations, storms, the scala naturae…
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- Full title :Ecocritical Shakespeare / Lynne Bruckner and Dan Brayton.
Summary
The first collection devoted specifically to green Shakespeare, this volume engages with pressing environmental questions in order to provide a better understanding of where and how ecocritical readings should be situated. Ecocritical Shakespeare combines multiple critical perspectives, juxtaposing historicism and presentism as well as considering ecofeminism and pedagogy. Topics addressed include early modern representations of flora and fauna, human-animal relations, storms, the scala naturae, the marine environment, and pedagogy.
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- Publication Date:cop. 2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Ashgate
- Place of Publication:Farnham, Surrey, England
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:cop. 2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xxiv, 280 p. :) : : il.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1409433226, 9781409433224
- oclc:ocn984804980
- Dewey Decimal:822.3/3
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword -- Greg Garrard; Introduction: Warbling Invaders; PART I: CONTEXTS FOR READING; 1 Vermin and Parasites: Shakespeare's Animal Architectures; 2 The Ecology of Self in Midsummer Night's Dream; 3 Gaia and the Great Chain of Being; 4 Is it Shakespearean Ecocriticism if it isn't Presentist?; PART II: FLORA, FAUNA, WEATHER, WATER; 5 "The Nobleness of Life": Spontaneous Generation and Excremental Life in Antony and Cleopatra; 6 The Well-Hung Shrew; 7 Felling Falstaff in Windsor Park.
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