Although treated as two distinct schools of thought, ecocriticism and geocriticism have both placed emphasis on the lived environment, whether through social or natural spaces. For the first time, this interdisciplinary collection of essays addresses the complementary and contested aspects of these approaches to literature, culture, and society.
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Introduction: Ecocritical Geographies, Geocritical Ecologies, and the Spaces of Modernity; Robert T. Tally Jr. and Christine M. Battista
PART I: TRANS-THEORETICAL PRACTICES
1. Geocriticism Meets Ecocriticism: Bertrand Westphal and Environmental Thinking; Eric Prieto
2. Ecocritical and Geocritical Conjunctions in North Atlantic Environmental Multimedia and Place-Based Poetry; Derek Gladwin
3. Noncommittal Commitment: Alien Spaces of Ecocosmopolitics in Recent World Literature; Ted Geier
PART II: SURVEYING TERRITORIES
4. Affective Edgelands: Wildness, History and Technology in Britain’s Post-industrial and Post-natural Topographies; Tom Bristow
5. ‘The sea was the river, the river the sea’: The Severn Estuary and the Bristol Channel in Robert Minhinnick and Philip Gross; Louise Chamberlain
6. Black Jungle, Beautiful Forest: A Postcolonial, Green Geocriticism of the Indian Sundarbans; Luca Raimondi
PART III: ECOCRITICAL EXPLORATIONS
7. Outside Within: Natural Environment and Social Place in Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca; Stanka Radovi?
8. Joseph Hall’s Mundus Alter et Idem and the Geo-satirical Indictment of the English Crown; Dan Mills
9. Nature and the Oppressed Female Body in Nora Okja Keller’s Ecofeminist Aesthetics; Silvia Schultermandl
10. Toward an Environmental Imagination of Displacement in Contemporary Transnational American Poetry; Judith Rauscher
关于作者
Robert T. Tally Jr. is Associate Professor of English at Texas State University, USA. He is the author of Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism; Poe and the Subversion of American Literature; Spatiality (The New Critical Idiom); Utopia in the Age of Globalization; and, as editor, Geocritical Explorations, Literary Cartographies, and The Geocritical Legacies of Edward W. Said.
Christine M. Battista is the Chair of Media and Communication Studies and Assistant Professor of English at Johnson and Wales University, USA, where she teaches critical media studies, literary theory, American literature, and postcolonial literature.
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