Environmental Awareness and the Design of Literature
Published on 13. October 2016
Book
Hardback
174 pages
978-90-04-32480-0 (ISBN)
Description
Environmental Awareness and the Design of Literature offers analyses of the diverse ways in which literature helps us escape the rigid frames of commonly assumed worldviews and modes of seeing. Literary works are endowed with a capacity not only to reflect or to mediate, but to resist our environment, and thus to affect and transform our relation to the physical world. Each essay points to the way literature shapes the human perception of environment as intellectual adventures and forays that draw upon a number of historical, aesthetic, philosophical and phenomenological stances.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-32480-0 (9789004324800)
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Person
Francois Specq is Professor of American Literature and Culture at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, and a researcher affiliated with the CNRS (IHRIM). He is co-editor of Thoreauvian Modernities: Transatlantic Conversations on an American Icon (2013), and of Pedestrian Mobility in Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts: From the 18th Century to the Present (2016).
Content
Francois Specq: The World Outside In (Literature): An Introduction
Francois Gavillon: American Ecocriticism and the Ethic of Commitment
Anne Dromart: Urban Environment and Narrative Domains in Defoe's Novels
Francois Specq: Thoreau's Environmental Humanism
Bertrand Guest: Environmental Awareness and Geography: Reading Reclus Ecocritically
Jean-Daniel Collomb: Ecological Awareness and the Democratic Consensus: John Muir's Post-Mortem Radicalism
Michel Granger: John C. Van Dyke, The Desert (1901): Under the Shadow of the Artificial Desert
Alexa Weik von Mossner: Encountering the Sahara: Embodiment, Emotion, and Material Agency in Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky
Nathalie Cochoy: Dillard Dancing: An American Childhood
Alain Suberchicot: On Duff Wilson: Community, Agribusiness and Environmental Testimony
Francois Gavillon: American Ecocriticism and the Ethic of Commitment
Anne Dromart: Urban Environment and Narrative Domains in Defoe's Novels
Francois Specq: Thoreau's Environmental Humanism
Bertrand Guest: Environmental Awareness and Geography: Reading Reclus Ecocritically
Jean-Daniel Collomb: Ecological Awareness and the Democratic Consensus: John Muir's Post-Mortem Radicalism
Michel Granger: John C. Van Dyke, The Desert (1901): Under the Shadow of the Artificial Desert
Alexa Weik von Mossner: Encountering the Sahara: Embodiment, Emotion, and Material Agency in Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky
Nathalie Cochoy: Dillard Dancing: An American Childhood
Alain Suberchicot: On Duff Wilson: Community, Agribusiness and Environmental Testimony