TY  - BOOK
AU  - Westling,Louise Hutchings
TI  - The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment
T2  - Cambridge Companions to Literature
SN  - 9781107029927 (hardback)
U1  - 809.9336 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - CUP
KW  - Ecocriticism
KW  - Nature in literature
KW  - Ecology in literature
KW  - Environmental literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: Introduction Louise Westling; Part I. Foundations: 1. Pastoral, anti-pastoral, and post-pastoral -- Terry Gifford; 2. The green otherworlds of early medieval literature -- Alfred K. Siewers; 3. "Mapping by Words": the politics of land in Native American literature -- Shari Huhndorf; Part II. Theories: 4. Ecocritical theory: romantic roots and impulses from twentieth-century European thinkers -- Axel Goodbody; 5. Nature, post nature -- Timothy Clark; 6. Violent affinities: sex, gender, and species in Cereus Blooms at Night -- Catriona Sandilands; 7. The lure of the wilderness -- Leo Mellor; Part III. Interdisciplinary Engagements: 8. "Tongues I'll hang on every tree": biosemiotics and the Book of Nature -- Wendy Wheeler; 9. Sauntering along the border: Thoreau, Nabhan, and food politics -- Janet Fiskio; 10. Animal studies, literary animals, and Yann Martel's Life of Pi -- Sarah McFarland; Part IV. Major Directions: 11. Environmental justice, cosmopolitics, and climate change -- Joni Adamson; 12. Systems and secrecy: postcolonial ecocriticism and Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome -- Bonnie Roos and Alex Hunt; 13. Environmental crises and East Asian literatures: uncertain presents and futures -- Karen Thornber; 14. Confronting catastrophe: ecocriticism in a warming world -- Kate Rigby; 15. Ecocinema and the wildlife film -- Stephen Rust
N2  - "This authoritative collection of rigorous but accessible essays investigates the exciting new interdisciplinary field of environmental literary criticism"--
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