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Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies
Fences, Boundaries, and Fields
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2009
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In Ecocritical Explorations, Patrick D. Murphy explores environmental literature and environmental cultural issues through both theoretical and applied criticism. He engages with the concepts of referentiality, simplicity, the nation state, and virtual reality in the first section of the book, and then goes on to interrogate these issues in contemporary environmental literature, both American and international. He concludes his argument with a discussion of the larger frames of family dynamics and un-natural disasters, such as hurricanes and global warming, ending with a chapter on the integration of scholarship and pedagogy in the classroom, with reference to his own teaching experiences. Murphy's study provides a wide ranging discussion of contemporary literature and cultural phenomena through the lens of ecological literary criticism, giving attention to both theoretical issues and applied critiques. In particular, he looks at popular literary genres, such as mystery and science fiction, as well as actual disasters and disaster scenarios. Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies is a timely contribution to ecological literary criticism and an insightful look into how we represent our relationship with the environment.
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-3173-2
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3175-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
218
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Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction: The Four Elements and the Recovery of Referentiality in Ecocriticism No access Pages 1 - 14
Chapter 01. The Complexity of Simplicity No access
Chapter 02. Difference and Responsibility in Literary Alternatives to the Nation-State No access
Chapter 03. Paradise or a Pair of Dice: Contradictions and Contingencies in Real and Virtual Terrains for Tomorrow’s College Students No access
Chapter 04. Toward Transnational Ecocritical Theory: The Example of Hwa Yol Jung No access
Chapter 05. Nature in the Contemporary American Novel No access
Chapter 06. The Non-alibi of Alien Scapes: Science Fiction and Ecocriticism No access
Chapter 07. The Non-alibi of Pragmatic Utopianism and Wild Variability; or, Optimistic Variations on a Science Fiction Theme No access
Chapter 08. Mysteries of Nature and Environmental Justice No access
Chapter 09. Nature-Nurturing Fathers in a World Beyond Our Control No access
Chapter 10. Scenarios of Disaster: Crying Wolf, Scaring Away the Elephants, and Heading ’Em off at the Pass No access
Chapter 11. Hurricanes and Hubris: American Responses in Literature and Culture to Natural Weather Extremes and Their Human-Driven Intensifications No access
Chapter 12. Ranging Widely in the Classroom No access
