1. Cultural ecology and literary studies -- 2. Ecocriticism and cultural ecology -- 3. Literature as cultural ecology -- 4. Transdisciplinary contexts of a cultural ecology of literature Drawing on the latest debates in ecocritical theory and sustainability studies, Literature …
Cognitive ecopoetics: a new theory of lyric
"New insights from cognitive theory and literary ecocriticism have the power to transform our understanding of one of the most important literary genres: the lyric poem. In Cognitive Ecopoetics, Sharon Lattig brings these two schools of criticism together for the first time to c…
Cognitive ecopoetics: a new theory of lyric
Introduction: The Region of the Song -- Occasional Cries: Prelude to Lyric -- Dwelling with the Possible: Lyric Obscurity and Embedded Perception -- This Is Where the Meanings Are: Lyric Disjunction and Perceptual Shattering -- Acts of the Mind: Lyric Action and the Whole of Per…
This work analyzes 21st-century realistic speculations of human extinction: fictions that imagine future worlds without interventions of as-yet uninvented technology, interplanetary travel, or other science fiction elements that provide hope for rescue or long-term survival. Cli…
The world unravels -- Irreducible entanglement : "all was kith and kin" in Life of pi -- The last stragglers of ecocollapse : "Diary of an interesting year" and The road -- Bearing witness : narrating human extinction in The dog stars -- Loose ends. "This work analyzes 21st-cen…
The world unravels -- Irreducible entanglement : "all was kith and kin" in Life of pi -- The last stragglers of ecocollapse : "Diary of an interesting year" and The road -- Bearing witness : narrating human extinction in The dog stars -- Loose ends. "This work analyzes 21st-cen…
"This work analyzes 21st-century realistic speculations of human extinction: fictions that imagine future worlds without interventions of as-yet uninvented technology, interplanetary travel, or other science fiction elements that provide hope for rescue or long-term survival. Cl…
Introduction -- Up from nature: racial uplift and ecological agencies in Booker T. Washington's autobiographies -- W.E.B. Du Bois at the Grand Canyon: nature, history, and race in A darkwater -- The crisis, the politics of nature, and the Harlem Renaissance: Effie Lee Newsome's …
