Frederick Buell

From Apocalypse to Way of Life

Environmental Crisis in the American Century

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Produktbeschreibung

From Apocalypse to Way of Life is a comprehensive and in depth survey of environmental crisis as it has been understood for the last four decades. Buell recounts the growing number of ecological and social problems critical for the environment, and the impact that the growing experience with, and understanding of, them has had on American politics, society and culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 591g
• ISBN-13: 9780415950404
• ISBN-10: 0415950406
• Artikelnr.: 21662051

Autorenporträt

Frederick Buell teaches English and cultural studies at Queens College/CUNY. He is the author of NationalCulture and the New Global System and W.H. Auden as aSocial Poet. He has also published a collection of poetry, Full Summer.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: The Decade of Crisis Section I: Contesting Crisis 1. The Politics
of Denial 2. Taking Crisis Seriously? Section II: Elaborating Crisis An
Introductory Caution 3. Natures in Crisis, Part 1: An Inventory of the
External World 4. Natures in Crisis, Part 2: Deepening Intimacies 5.
Environmental Crisis as Social Crisis 6. Crisis History: From Prophecy to
Risk, From Apocalypse to Dwelling Place Section III: Imagining Crisis 7.
The Culture of hyperexuberence 8. Environmental Crisis in Popular Fiction
and Film 9. Taking Crisis Seriously: Environmental Crisis and Contemporary
Literature Appendix 1