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| Genre/Form: | Congresses |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Conference publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Catrin Gersdorf; Sylvia Mayer |
| ISBN: | 9789042020962 9042020962 |
| OCLC Number: | 77077888 |
| Notes: | " ... extended versions of a selection of papers given at a conference at the University of Münster (Germany) in March 2004."--P. 13. |
| Description: | 490 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Nature in literary and cultural studies : defining the subject of ecocriticism : an introduction / Catrin Gersdorf and Sylvia Mayer -- Theorizing the nature of ecocriticism -- Literature, the environment, and the question of the posthuman / Louise Westling -- The state of ecocriticism and the function of literature as cultural ecology / Hubert Zapf -- Nature "out there" and as "a social player" : some basic consequences for a literary ecocritical analysis / Christa Grewe-Volpp -- Feminist and postcolonial perspectives on ecocriticism in a Canadian context : toward a 'situated' literary theory and practice of ecofeminism and environmental justi / Simone Birgitt Hartmann -- Literary studies, ecofeminism and environmentalist knowledge production in the humanities / Sylvia Mayer -- Locating nature in language, literature, and everyday culture -- (Historical) ecolinguistics and literary analysis / Beatrix Busse -- "Trees are what everyone needs" : The Lorax, anthropocentrism, and the problem of mimesis / Hannes Bergthaller -- Afterglow : Chernobyl and the everyday / Ursula K. Heise -- "Syllabled to us for names" : Native American echoes in Walt Whitman's green poetics / Christine Gerhardt -- "We are dirt : we are earth" : Ursula Le Guin and the problem of extraterrestrialism / Tonia L. Payne -- Virtual tourism : the consumption of natural and digital environments / Christian Krug -- Gertrud Leutenegger's metanoic narrative Kontinent / Andrew A. Liston -- Nature, literature and the space of the national -- Nature/place, memory, and identity in the poetry of Lithuanian émigré Danutė Paškevičiūtė / Irena Ragaišienė -- German literature, nature and modernity before 1914 / Colin Riordan -- Nature and nationalism in the writings of Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769-1860) / Caroline Delph -- It was shown in the way they stepped in the woods : nature in Hermann Löns and Edward Thomas / Simon Meacher The aesthetic appreciation of nature as a reaction to dictatorship : disjunction and dissidence in the Inner Emigration / Katharine Griffiths -- From egocentrism to ecocentrism : nature and morality in German writing in the 1980s / Axel Goodbody -- Ethics of nature -- Grounding anotherness and answerability through allonational ecoliterature formations / Patrick D. Murphy -- Ecology as moral stand(s) : environmental ethics, Western moral philosophy, and the problem of the other / Thomas Claviez -- Where do your borders lie? Reflections on the semiotical ethics / Timo Maran. |
| Series Title: | Nature, culture and literature, 03. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Catrin Gersdorf and Sylvia Mayer. |
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- Ecocriticism -- Congresses.
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