Culture, creativity and environment new environmentalist criticism (Rodopi, 2007)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Journey to the heart of stone / Val Plumwood -- What is (ecological) "nature"? : John Stuart Mill and the Victorian perspective / John Parham -- Fear and flowers in Anya Gallaccio's Forest floor, Keep off the grass, Glaschu, and Repens / Judith Rugg -- Like a ship to be tossed : Emersonian environmentalism and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping / Hannes Bergthaller -- In the mirror of Middle Earth : Langland's use of the world as a book and what we can make of it / Gillian Rudd -- Poodles and curs : eugenic comedy in Ibsen's An enemy of the people / Greg Garrard -- The hunter as nature-lover : idyll, aggression, and ecology in the German animal stories of Otto Alscher / Axel Goodbody -- Postcolonialism, ecocriticism, and the animal in recent Canadian fiction / Graham Huggan -- Barry MacSweeney's moorland romance / Matthew Jarvis -- Painting landscape : mediating dislocation / Judith Tucker -- Modernity and the politics of place in Luis Trenker's Der verlorene Sohn / Guinevere Narraway -- Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty : ecopoetics and the problem of humanism / Louise Westling
Culture, Creativity and Environment: New Environmentalist Criticism is a collection of new work which examines the intersection between philosophy, literature, visual art, film and the environment at a time of environmental crisis. This book is unusual in the way in which the 'imaginative', 'creative', element is privileged, notwithstanding the creativity of rigorous cultural criticism. Genuinely interdisciplinary, this book aims to be inclusive in its discussions of diverse cultural media (different literary genres, art forms and film for instance), which offer thoughtful and thought-provokin