The Literature of Waste
Material Ecopoetics and Ethical Matter
Published on 14. January 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
330 pages
978-1-349-68074-0 (ISBN)
Description
Tracing the material and metaphoric waste through the western canon, Morrison disrupts traditional perceptions to understand how we theorize, manage, and are implicated in waste. A major contribution to the growing field of Waste Studies, this book urges the reader to see disposal as the creation of waste literature itself.
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Edition
2015 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-349-68074-0 (9781349680740)
DOI
10.1057/9781137394446
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Persons
Susan Signe Morrison is Professor of English at Texas State University, USA.
Content
Introduction: The Waste-ern Literary Canon in the Waste-ern Tradition PART I: TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL: APPROACHES TO DISCIPLINING WASTE 1. Codification: The Anxiety of Ambiguity 2. The Fragmented and Corruptible Body: Gendered Waste 3. The Civilizing Process: Divisive Divisions 4. Memory and Narrative: Ruins, Nostalgia, and Ghosts 5. Failed Source Reduction: Conspicuous Consumption and the Inability to Minimize 6. Urban Myths: The Civilized and Pristine City-Body 7. Interiorized Waste: Sin and Metaphysical Meaninglessness 8. The Toxic Metaphor of Wasted Humans: Those Filthy Cleaners Who Scrub Us Spotless PART II: ENERGY RECOVERY AND THE DYNAMIC POWER OF THINGS 9. The Secret Life of Objects: The Audacity of Thingness and the Poignancy of Materiality 10. Trash Meditation: The Arts of Transience and Proximity PART III: RECYCLING AND COMPOSTING: FORM AS RESTITUTION 11. Waste Aesthetics: Puns, Litter-ature, and Intertextuality 12. Gleaning Aesthetics: Poetry as Communal Salvage PART IV: SOURCE REDUCTION AND REUSE: COMPASSION THROUGH GENEROUS METAPHOR 13. Compost Aesthetics: The Poet[h]ics of Metaphor 14. Poetry as Homeopathy: The Poet as Ragpicker