Avenging Nature explores how nature strikes back against human domination. International experts examine, from a multipdisciplinary perspective, the insubordinate representations of nature in modern and contemporary art and literature, and advocate for the insurgence of nature within and outside the realm of culture.
Avenging Nature explores how nature strikes back against human domination. International experts examine, from a multipdisciplinary perspective, the insubordinate representations of nature in modern and contemporary art and literature, and advocate for the insurgence of nature within and outside the realm of culture.
Edited by Eduardo Valls Oyarzun; Rebeca Gualberto Valverde; Noelia Malla Garcia; María Colom Jiménez and Rebeca Cordero Sánchez - Contributions by Anastasia Cardone; Frank Izaguirre; Laura de la Parra; Jessica Roberts; Laura Sanz García; Hande Gürses; Ped
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Introduction, Eduardo Valls Oyarzun Part I Towards a New Ecocritical Ethics: Cultural Perspectives Chapter 1. Bringing Culture Back to Nature: A Biosemiotic Reading of Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Anastasia Cardone Chapter 2. "Have You Seen the Snow Leopard?": Animal Commodity Resistance in Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leo, Frank Izaguirre Chapter 3. "With One Arm I Supported Her: The Other Arm Was the Executioner's": An Ecofeminist Reading of Anna Kavan's Ice, Laura de la Parra Chapter 4. "We Were Neither What We Had Been Nor What We Would Become": Frankensteinian Science and Liminal States in Jeff VanderMeer'sAnnihilation, Jessica Roberts Chapter 5. Santiago Rusiñol's Abandoned Gardens: Between the Poetics of Ruin and the Defense of a Lost Identity, Laura Sanz García Part II Empowering Nature: Transcending Anthropocentrism in the Anthropocene Chapter 6. Welcoming Cosmos: A Comparative Study of Narrative, Nature and Cosmopolitanism in The Wall and Pond, Hande Gurses Chapter 7. A Few Sockeyes and Dying Embers in What Is Left of the Forest: Settler Culture and Changing Views of Nature in Gail Anderson Dargatz's Latest Novels, Pedro Miguel Carmona Chapter 8. The Last Epigram: Christian Bök'sXenotext, Ryan Winet Chapter 9. A Poetic Correspondence on Ecology and the Green World: Allan Cooper and Harry Thurston'sThe Deer Yard, Leonor Martínez Chapter 10. Wonders and Threats of Symbiotic Relationships in the Anthropocene: Jeff VanderMeer's The Southern ReachTrilogy, Patrycja Austin Part III The Age of Dystopia: Nature against Culture in Contemporary Literature and Film Chapter 11. Demonizing Nature: Ecocriticism and Popular Fantasy, Peter Melville Chapter 12. Accepting the X: Uncanny Encounters with Nature and the Wilderness in Jeff Vandermeer'sThe Southern Reach Trilogy, Carmen Méndez Chapter 13. Ecocritical Archaeologies of Global Ecocide in 21st-Century Post-Apocalyptic Films, Mónica Martí Chapter 14. Biohazard, Eco-terror and the Rise of Post-Human Dystopia: Re (b) ordering Space to Promote Environmental Ethics in ZalBatmanglij'sThe East and Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Paula Barba Guerrero Chapter 15. Another Inconvenient Truth: Hollywood, the Myth of GreenCapitalism, Víctor Junco Chapter 16. De-Evolution, Dystopia and Apocalypse in American Postmodern Speculative Fiction, Javier Martín Párraga Index About the Editors About the Contributors
Introduction, Eduardo Valls Oyarzun Part I Towards a New Ecocritical Ethics: Cultural Perspectives Chapter 1. Bringing Culture Back to Nature: A Biosemiotic Reading of Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Anastasia Cardone Chapter 2. "Have You Seen the Snow Leopard?": Animal Commodity Resistance in Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leo, Frank Izaguirre Chapter 3. "With One Arm I Supported Her: The Other Arm Was the Executioner's": An Ecofeminist Reading of Anna Kavan's Ice, Laura de la Parra Chapter 4. "We Were Neither What We Had Been Nor What We Would Become": Frankensteinian Science and Liminal States in Jeff VanderMeer'sAnnihilation, Jessica Roberts Chapter 5. Santiago Rusiñol's Abandoned Gardens: Between the Poetics of Ruin and the Defense of a Lost Identity, Laura Sanz García Part II Empowering Nature: Transcending Anthropocentrism in the Anthropocene Chapter 6. Welcoming Cosmos: A Comparative Study of Narrative, Nature and Cosmopolitanism in The Wall and Pond, Hande Gurses Chapter 7. A Few Sockeyes and Dying Embers in What Is Left of the Forest: Settler Culture and Changing Views of Nature in Gail Anderson Dargatz's Latest Novels, Pedro Miguel Carmona Chapter 8. The Last Epigram: Christian Bök'sXenotext, Ryan Winet Chapter 9. A Poetic Correspondence on Ecology and the Green World: Allan Cooper and Harry Thurston'sThe Deer Yard, Leonor Martínez Chapter 10. Wonders and Threats of Symbiotic Relationships in the Anthropocene: Jeff VanderMeer's The Southern ReachTrilogy, Patrycja Austin Part III The Age of Dystopia: Nature against Culture in Contemporary Literature and Film Chapter 11. Demonizing Nature: Ecocriticism and Popular Fantasy, Peter Melville Chapter 12. Accepting the X: Uncanny Encounters with Nature and the Wilderness in Jeff Vandermeer'sThe Southern Reach Trilogy, Carmen Méndez Chapter 13. Ecocritical Archaeologies of Global Ecocide in 21st-Century Post-Apocalyptic Films, Mónica Martí Chapter 14. Biohazard, Eco-terror and the Rise of Post-Human Dystopia: Re (b) ordering Space to Promote Environmental Ethics in ZalBatmanglij'sThe East and Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Paula Barba Guerrero Chapter 15. Another Inconvenient Truth: Hollywood, the Myth of GreenCapitalism, Víctor Junco Chapter 16. De-Evolution, Dystopia and Apocalypse in American Postmodern Speculative Fiction, Javier Martín Párraga Index About the Editors About the Contributors
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