Patrick D. Murphy

Persuasive Aesthetic Ecocritical Praxis

Climate Change, Subsistence, and Questionable Futures

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Produktbeschreibung

Persuasive Aesthetic Ecocritical Praxis analyzes environmental literature and film from a tranversal ecocritical orientation with a focus on the aesthetic dimensions in terms of persuasive affects. It emphasizes attention to crucial themes, such as climate change, land dispossession, and differential gender impacts of global economics, as well as scenarios of possible sustainable futures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 505g
• ISBN-13: 9781498514835
• ISBN-10: 1498514839
• Artikelnr.: 42968833

Autorenporträt

By Patrick D. Murphy

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Continuing the Transversal Ecocritical Praxis Project Chapter
One: The Question of Aesthetic Praxis: If Literature and Art are
Propaganda, What is Ecocritical Analysis? Chapter Two: Back to Concerns
about the Future: Susan Fenimore Cooper and Rural Hours Chapter Three:
Pessimism, Optimism, Human Inertia and Anthropogenic Climate Change Chapter
Four: Directing the Weather, Producing the Climate Chapter Five: Buying
Agriculture, Selling Starvation and the Failure of Business-as-usual in a
Dystopic Future Chapter Six: Viewing the Far Fields through an Ecofeminist
Subsistence Perspective in an Age of Land Grabs Chapter Seven: From
Consumables to Sustenance through an Ecofeminist Sufficiency Reorientation
Chapter Eight: Listening for a Way out Through a Deep Yearning for a
Resounding Relationship Chapter Nine: The Role of Women and Gender Equality
in Creating Ecotopia Afterword: Directions for Future Research Appendix:
Framing the Subject: An Interview by the editors of Frame Acknowledgments
Bibliography Index