Literature and sustainability concept, text and culture

Sustainability has become a key socio-political issue over recent years. However, whilst the literary-critical community has advanced enthusiastically on an exciting range of environmentally-based analyses (most obviously through the work of ecocriticism), its response specifically to sustainability...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Johns-Putra, Adeline (auth), Squire, Louise, editor (editor), Parham, John, editor, Johns-Putra, Adeline, 1973- editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press 2017.
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  • The millers' tales: sustainability, the arts and the watermill / Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Howard Thomas and Richard Marggraf Turley
  • Sustenance from the past: precedents to sustainability in nineteenth-century literature and culture / John Parham
  • Deep sustainability: ecopoetics, enjoyment and ecstatic hospitality / Kate Rigby
  • Recycling materials, recycling lives: cardboard publishers in Latin America / Lucy Bell
  • Sustainability after extinction: on last animals and future bison / Joshua Schuster
  • The twilight of the Anthropocene: sustaining literature / Claire Colebrook
  • Collapse, resilience, stability and sustainability in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy / Dana Phillips
  • "The shadow of the future made all the difference": sustainability in Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capital trilogy / Chris Pak
  • The unsustainable aesthetics of sustainability: the sense of an ending in Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods / Adeline Johns-Putra
  • A modest proposal for a less natural lifestyle: the paradoxes of sustainability and Michel Houellebecq's The Possibility of an Island / Hannes Bergthaller
  • Jorie Graham's Sea Change: the poetics of sustainability and the politics of what we're sustaining / Matthew Griffiths
  • Circles unrounded: sustainability, subject and necessity in Yann Martel's Life of Pi / Louise Squire.