Louise Squire

Death-Facing Ecology in Contemporary British and North American Environmental Crisis Fiction (eBook, PDF)

Ecological Death-facing in Contemporary British and North American Fiction

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Louise Squire defines environmental crisis fiction as concerned with a range of environmental issues and with the human subject as a catalyst for these issues. She argues that this fiction is characterized by a thematic use of "death," through which it explores a "crisis" of both environment and self.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351396516
• Artikelnr.: 58338333

Autorenporträt

Louise Squire researches in contemporary literature and ecocriticism. She works at University of Portsmouth and is Assistant Editor for Ecozon@. Publications include (co-editor) Literature and Sustainability: Concept, Text and Culture, a chapter in Extending Ecocritcism, ed. by Peter Barry and William Welstead, and an article in The Oxford Literary Review.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Thoughts Towards an Ecology of Death-Facing
1. A Crisis of Environment, A crisis in Thought
2. Death Denial, Death facing
3. Impasse, Paradox
4. Discursive Death, Material Death
Conclusion: Imageries of the Future