Words for a Small Planet
Ecocritical Views
Lexington Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 21. November 2012
238 pages
978-0-7391-7159-2 (ISBN)
Description
Ecocriticism has matured beyond nature writing, beyond writing about nature. The essays in this volume look at the broader cultural, historical, sociological, and psychological implications of ecology in written, visual, and sound culture. In keeping with our sense of a global community, these essays are representative of international scholarship on ecology and the environment, and display the range of insight of which this criticism is capable. Focusing on popular culture, this volume is in the vanguard of our collective reflections on the directions in which our various societies are going.
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1. Auflage
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English
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New York
United States
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Professional and scholarly
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978-0-7391-7159-2 (9780739171592)
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Nanette Norris is Assistant Professor of English at Royal Military College Saint-Jean, where she teaches undergraduate courses in twentieth century literature. Her work has appeared in Images of the Child, ed. Harry Eiss (Bowling Green, 1994), Engaging the Enemy: Canada in the 1940s, ed. Andrew Hiscock and Muriel Chamberlain (Dinefwr Press, 2006), Paris in American Literatures, ed. Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera and Vamsi Koneru, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012), C.S.Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia Casebook, ed. Lance E. Weldy and Michelle Abate, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), and The D.H. Lawrence Review, among others. She is the editor of Unionist Popular Culture and Rolls of Honour in the North of Ireland During the First World War: A Collection of Diverse Essays in Popular Culture (Edwin Mellen, 2012). Words for a Small Planet is the fulfillment of a life-long desire to be involved in the study of ecology and ecosystems, and is the outcome of a visit to Saudi Arabia where she saw the Arab Spring in progress, not only across the bridge in Bahrain, but in the homes and hearts of Saudi women: she is proud to bring her editing and collecting skills to the project of giving voice to these and other cultures in the ecosystem called Earth.
Content
Preface
Annie Merrill Ingram
Introduction: Ecocritical Spring and Evolutionary Discourse
Andrew Belyea and Nanette Norris
Chapter 1: Imaginary Representations and Cultural Performances Of Ecocriticism
Eduardo Barros-Grela
Chapter 2: Ecological Narrative or Imperial Exploitation: What's the "Monster" in Animal Planet's River Monsters?
Christopher Justice
Chapter 3: The Representation of Nature: An Ecocritical Reading of Juan León Mera's Cumandá
Frederico A. Chalupa
Chapter 4: Nature Versus War in Letters from the Front, 1914-1918
Sylvie Housiel
Chapter 5: A Passage to India: An Ecocritical Reading
Yomna Al-Abdulkareem
Chapter 6: Nature, Women, and the Ecotext: Self-Discovery in Emily Nasrallah's Short Stories "The Cocoon" and "The Butterfly"
Iman A. Hanafy
Chapter 7: Jerusalem in the poetry of Tamim El-Barghouti and Yehuda Amichai
Hessa Al-Kahlan
Chapter 8: Omumu Concept of Begetting: A Pro-Feminist Lesson from Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Chinyere Okafor
Chapter 9: The Legacy of the American War in Vietnam: Tim O'Brien's "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong"
Nanette Norris
Chapter 10: National Narrative as Wilderness: An Ecocritical Interpretation of Civilización y barbarie in Modern Argentine LiteratureAnne E. Hiller
Chapter 11: Unnatural Appetites and the Case of the Cannibal in Korean Cinema
Colette Balmain
Chapter 12: Is 'Eco' Enough?: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, Wayland Drew's The Erthring Cycle, and Evolutionary Fiction
Andrew Belyea
Annie Merrill Ingram
Introduction: Ecocritical Spring and Evolutionary Discourse
Andrew Belyea and Nanette Norris
Chapter 1: Imaginary Representations and Cultural Performances Of Ecocriticism
Eduardo Barros-Grela
Chapter 2: Ecological Narrative or Imperial Exploitation: What's the "Monster" in Animal Planet's River Monsters?
Christopher Justice
Chapter 3: The Representation of Nature: An Ecocritical Reading of Juan León Mera's Cumandá
Frederico A. Chalupa
Chapter 4: Nature Versus War in Letters from the Front, 1914-1918
Sylvie Housiel
Chapter 5: A Passage to India: An Ecocritical Reading
Yomna Al-Abdulkareem
Chapter 6: Nature, Women, and the Ecotext: Self-Discovery in Emily Nasrallah's Short Stories "The Cocoon" and "The Butterfly"
Iman A. Hanafy
Chapter 7: Jerusalem in the poetry of Tamim El-Barghouti and Yehuda Amichai
Hessa Al-Kahlan
Chapter 8: Omumu Concept of Begetting: A Pro-Feminist Lesson from Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Chinyere Okafor
Chapter 9: The Legacy of the American War in Vietnam: Tim O'Brien's "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong"
Nanette Norris
Chapter 10: National Narrative as Wilderness: An Ecocritical Interpretation of Civilización y barbarie in Modern Argentine LiteratureAnne E. Hiller
Chapter 11: Unnatural Appetites and the Case of the Cannibal in Korean Cinema
Colette Balmain
Chapter 12: Is 'Eco' Enough?: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, Wayland Drew's The Erthring Cycle, and Evolutionary Fiction
Andrew Belyea
