Ecocriticism and Shakespeare: reading ecophobia

"This book offers the term "ecophobia" as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world. Estok argues that this vocabulary is both necessary to the developing area of ecocritical studies and for our understandings of the representations of &qu...

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Main Author: Estok, Simon C. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan 2011
Edition:1. publ.
Series:Literatures, cultures and the environment
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"This book offers the term "ecophobia" as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world. Estok argues that this vocabulary is both necessary to the developing area of ecocritical studies and for our understandings of the representations of "Nature" in Shakespeare"--
Item Description:Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Includes bibliographical references
Machine generated contents note: -- Doing ecocriticism with Shakespeare * Dramatizing Environmental Fear: King Lear's Unpredictable Natural Spaces and Domestic Places * Coriolanus and ecocriticism: a study in confluent theorizing * Pushing the limits of ecocriticism: environment and social resistance in 2 Henry VI and 2 Henry IV * Monstrosity in Othello and Pericles: race, gender, and ecophobia * Disgust, metaphor, women: ecophobic confluences * Staging exotica and ecophobia * The ecocritical unconscious: early modern sleep as "go-between" * Coda: ecocriticism on the lip of a lion
Physical Description:X, 182 S. Ill.
ISBN:9780230112568
9781137446893
0230112560

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