Greening the Maple
Canadian Ecocriticism in Context
Published on 30. November 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
624 pages
978-1-55238-546-3 (ISBN)
Description
Ecocriticism can be described in very general terms as the investigation of the many ways in which culture and the environment are interrelated and conceptualized. Ecocriticism aspires to understand and often to celebrate the natural world, yet it does so indirectly by focusing primarily on written texts. Hailed as one of the most timely and provocative developments in literary and cultural studies of recent decades, it has also been greeted with bewilderment or scepticism by those for whom its aims and methods are unclear.
This book seeks to bring into view the development of ecocriticism in the context of Canadian literary studies. Selections include work by Margaret Atwood, Northrop Frye, Sherrill Grace, and Rosemary Sullivan.
This book seeks to bring into view the development of ecocriticism in the context of Canadian literary studies. Selections include work by Margaret Atwood, Northrop Frye, Sherrill Grace, and Rosemary Sullivan.
Reviews / Votes
Greening the Maple is a must read for those interested in literature and the environment. The collection demonstrates the uniqueness and worth of Canadian ecocriticism and its various origins and trajectories. Alec Follett, Alternatives Journal A fascinating overview of Canadian critical engagement with nature. Marinette Grimbeek, European Journal of Literature, Culture, and Environment If a good anthology is one that both lays the foundation and opens the door, Greening the Maple fits the bill. This landmark volume demonstrates that ecocriticism in Canada is well established and is also ripe for questioning and extending. Paul Huebener, University of Toronto QuarterlyMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Calgary
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
890 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55238-546-3 (9781552385463)
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Persons
Linda Hutcheon is Associate Professor of English at McMaster University. Jenny Kerber teaches in the areas of Canadian and American literature, literary theory, and environmental criticism in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. Her essays on Canadian literary and environmental topics have appeared in Canadian Poetry , Canadian Literature , Essays on Canadian Writing , and Green Letters . This is her first book. Catriona Sandilands is a professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. She is a fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, a former Canada Research Chair and past president of both the Association for Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada and the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (US). Cate is internationally known for her work in the environmental humanities, including three (sole and co-authored) books and over eighty scholarly and popular articles, essays and stories. In addition to Rising Tides, she is working on a book about plants and environmental philosophy (Cultivating Feminism) and a memoir about her journey to write a book about Jane Rule (The Jane Book). Cate lives and writes in Toronto, ON, and on Galiano Island, BC. Dr. Linda Morra is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Bishop's University. Her publications include Unarrested Archives: Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Authorship (2014), a co-edited collection of essays, Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace: Explorations in Canadian Women's Archives (2012), and an edition of Jane Rule's memoir, Taking My Life (2011). Ella Soper is a lecturer in the Department of English and Drama at the University of Toronto Mississauga, in the Department of English at University of Toronto Scarborough, and in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. Rita Wong is an award-winning writer of four books of poetry, her latest titled undercurrent (2015). She is co-editor of downstream: reimagining water (WLU Press 2017), nominated for the Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize. She teaches at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, on the unceded Coast Salish territories also known as Vancouver, where she learns from water. Nicholas Bradley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Victoria. Northrop Frye (1912-1991) was Canada's leading literary critic and one of the world's leading theorists of society and the imagination. Among his twenty-three books, and more than three hundred articles and reviews, are classic studies such as Fearful Symmetry , Anatomy of Criticism , The Great Code , and Words With Power . Margaret Atwood is known internationally for her award-winning novels, poetry, and short stories. She was born in Ottawa in 1939, and spent much of her childhood in northern Ontario and Quebec. She has lived, studied, and worked in Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, Vancouver, Alliston, and Boston, as well as England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Italy, and Germany.
Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Ecocriticism North of the Forty-ninth Parallel
Ella Spoer and Nicholas Bradley
Section 1: Nature and Nation: Before and Beyond Thematic Criticism
Chapter 1: Selections from The Busch Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination (1971)
Northrop Frye
Chapter 2: Selections from Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972)
Margaret Atwood
Chapter 3: La ForEt or the Winlderness as Myth (1987)
Rosemary Sullivan
Chapter 4: Quest for the Peaceable Knowledge: Urban/Rural Codes in Roy, Laurence, and Atwood (1984)
Sherrill E. Grace
Chapter 5: Women in the Wilderness (1986)
Heather Murray
Section 2: The Emergence of Ecocriticism in Canada
Chapter 6: "Along the Line of Smoky Hills": Further Steps towards an Ecological Poetics (1990)
D.M.R. Bentley
Chapter 7: So Big about Green (1991)
Laurie Ricou
Chapter 8: So Unwise about Green (1996)
Laurie Ricou
Chapter 9: Eruptions of Postmodernity: The Postcolonial and the Ecological (1993)
Linda Hutcheon
Chapter 10: Contemporary Canadian Poetry from the Edge: An Exploration of Literary Ecocriticism (1995)
Gabriele Helms
Chapter 11: Nature's Nation, National Natures? Reading Ecocriticism in a Canadian Context (1998)
Susie O'Brien
Section 3: Reading Canadian Landscapes
Chapter 12: Nature Trafficking: Writing and Environment in the Western Canada-U.S. Borderlands
Jenny Kerber
Chapter 13: Calypso Trails: Botanizing on the Bruce Peninsula (2010)
Catriona Sandilands
Chapter 14: Knowledge, Power, and Place: Environmental Politics in the Fiction of Matt Cohen and David Adams Richards
Cheryl Lousley
Section 4: Environments and Cross-Cultural Encounters
Chapter 15: Canadian Art according to Emily Carr: The Search for Indigenous Expression (2005)
Linda Morra
Chapter 16: "Mon pays, ce n'est pas un pays, c'est l'hiver": Literary Representations of Nature and Ecocritical Thought in Quebec
Stephanie Posthumus and Elise SalaUEn
Chapter 17: Decolonization: Reading Asian and First Nations Relations in Literature (2008)
Rita Wong
Section 5: Neighbours Unknown: Animals in Canadian Literature
Chapter 18: Selections from Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972)
Margaret Atwood
Chapter 19: Political Science: Realism in Robert's Animal Stories (1996)
Misano Dean
Chapter 20: The "I" in Beaver: Sympathetic Identification in the Self-Representation in Grey Owl's Pilgrims of the Wild (2007)
Carrie Dawson
Chapter 21: The Ontology and Epistemology of Walking: Animality in Karsten Huer's Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd
Pamela Banting
Section 6: In Full Bloom: New Directions in Canadian Theory Chapter 22: Poetics of the Semiosphere: Pataphysics, Biosemiotics, and Imaginary Solutions for Water (2011)
Adam DickinsonChapter 23: Literature and Geology: An Experiment in Interdisciplinary Comparative Ecocriticism
Travis V. Mason
Chapter 24: The Dwelling Perspective in English-Canadian Drama
Nelson Gray
Afterword: Ecocritical Futures
Ella Soper and Nicholas Bradley
Appendix: Taking Frlight: From Little Grey Birds to The Goose
Liza Sazbo-Jones
Notes
Index
Introduction: Ecocriticism North of the Forty-ninth Parallel
Ella Spoer and Nicholas Bradley
Section 1: Nature and Nation: Before and Beyond Thematic Criticism
Chapter 1: Selections from The Busch Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination (1971)
Northrop Frye
Chapter 2: Selections from Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972)
Margaret Atwood
Chapter 3: La ForEt or the Winlderness as Myth (1987)
Rosemary Sullivan
Chapter 4: Quest for the Peaceable Knowledge: Urban/Rural Codes in Roy, Laurence, and Atwood (1984)
Sherrill E. Grace
Chapter 5: Women in the Wilderness (1986)
Heather Murray
Section 2: The Emergence of Ecocriticism in Canada
Chapter 6: "Along the Line of Smoky Hills": Further Steps towards an Ecological Poetics (1990)
D.M.R. Bentley
Chapter 7: So Big about Green (1991)
Laurie Ricou
Chapter 8: So Unwise about Green (1996)
Laurie Ricou
Chapter 9: Eruptions of Postmodernity: The Postcolonial and the Ecological (1993)
Linda Hutcheon
Chapter 10: Contemporary Canadian Poetry from the Edge: An Exploration of Literary Ecocriticism (1995)
Gabriele Helms
Chapter 11: Nature's Nation, National Natures? Reading Ecocriticism in a Canadian Context (1998)
Susie O'Brien
Section 3: Reading Canadian Landscapes
Chapter 12: Nature Trafficking: Writing and Environment in the Western Canada-U.S. Borderlands
Jenny Kerber
Chapter 13: Calypso Trails: Botanizing on the Bruce Peninsula (2010)
Catriona Sandilands
Chapter 14: Knowledge, Power, and Place: Environmental Politics in the Fiction of Matt Cohen and David Adams Richards
Cheryl Lousley
Section 4: Environments and Cross-Cultural Encounters
Chapter 15: Canadian Art according to Emily Carr: The Search for Indigenous Expression (2005)
Linda Morra
Chapter 16: "Mon pays, ce n'est pas un pays, c'est l'hiver": Literary Representations of Nature and Ecocritical Thought in Quebec
Stephanie Posthumus and Elise SalaUEn
Chapter 17: Decolonization: Reading Asian and First Nations Relations in Literature (2008)
Rita Wong
Section 5: Neighbours Unknown: Animals in Canadian Literature
Chapter 18: Selections from Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972)
Margaret Atwood
Chapter 19: Political Science: Realism in Robert's Animal Stories (1996)
Misano Dean
Chapter 20: The "I" in Beaver: Sympathetic Identification in the Self-Representation in Grey Owl's Pilgrims of the Wild (2007)
Carrie Dawson
Chapter 21: The Ontology and Epistemology of Walking: Animality in Karsten Huer's Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd
Pamela Banting
Section 6: In Full Bloom: New Directions in Canadian Theory Chapter 22: Poetics of the Semiosphere: Pataphysics, Biosemiotics, and Imaginary Solutions for Water (2011)
Adam DickinsonChapter 23: Literature and Geology: An Experiment in Interdisciplinary Comparative Ecocriticism
Travis V. Mason
Chapter 24: The Dwelling Perspective in English-Canadian Drama
Nelson Gray
Afterword: Ecocritical Futures
Ella Soper and Nicholas Bradley
Appendix: Taking Frlight: From Little Grey Birds to The Goose
Liza Sazbo-Jones
Notes
Index