Green Matters
Ecocultural Functions of Literature
Gebonden Engels 2019 9789004408869Samenvatting
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.
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
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
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