Ecocriticism on the edge: the anthropocene as a threshold concept
"The twenty-first century has seen an increased awareness of the forms of environmental destruction that cannot immediately be seen, localized or, by some, even acknowledged. Ecocriticism on the Edge explores the possibility of a new mode of critical practice, one fully engaged with the destructive force of the planetary environmental crisis. Timothy Clark argues that, in literary and cultural criticism, the "Anthropocene", which names the epoch in which human impacts on the planet's ecological…
Read More ↓Title Statements
- Full title :Ecocriticism on the edge : the anthropocene as a threshold concept / Timothy Clark.
Summary
"The twenty-first century has seen an increased awareness of the forms of environmental destruction that cannot immediately be seen, localized or, by some, even acknowledged. Ecocriticism on the Edge explores the possibility of a new mode of critical practice, one fully engaged with the destructive force of the planetary environmental crisis. Timothy Clark argues that, in literary and cultural criticism, the "Anthropocene", which names the epoch in which human impacts on the planet's ecological systems reach a dangerous limit, also represents a threshold at which modes of interpretation that once seemed sufficient or progressive become, in this new counterintuitive context, inadequate or even latently destructive. The book includes analyses of literary works, including texts by Paule Marshall, Gary Snyder, Ben Okri, Henry Lawson, Lorrie Moore and Raymond Carver."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2015.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781472506702, 1472506707, 9781474246309, 1474246303, 9781474217484, 1474217486, 1472506480, 9781472506481, 1472505735, 9781472505736
- oclc:ocn910102763
- LC Classification:PN98.E36
- Dewey Decimal:809.93355
Table of Contents
The anthropocene -- questions of definition -- Imaging and imagining the whole earth : the terrestrial as norm -- Emergent unreadability : rereading a lyric by Gary Snyder -- Scale framing -- Scale framing : a reading -- Postcolonial ecocriticism and de-humanizing reading : an Australian test case -- Anthropocene disorder -- Denial : a reading -- The tragedy that climate change is not 'interesting'.
Read More ↓Subjects
Writers
No reviews yet. Be the first to rate this work.
Related Works
more →
Files & Downloads
-
Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a T…
PDF · 4.0 MB · updated -
Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a T…
PDF · 1.5 MB · updated -
Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a t…
PDF · 6.8 MB · updated
Rate & Review