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  1. Literature for a Changing Planet
    Autor*in: Puchner, Martin
    Erschienen: [2022]; ©2022
    Verlag:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

    Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastropheReading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddling while Rome burns. Yet, at this turning point... mehr

     

    Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastropheReading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddling while Rome burns. Yet, at this turning point for the planet, scientists, policymakers, and activists have woken up to the power of stories in the fight against global warming. In Literature for a Changing Planet, Martin Puchner ranges across four thousand years of world literature to draw vital lessons about how we put ourselves on the path of climate change—and how we might change paths before it’s too late.From the Epic of Gilgamesh and the West African Epic of Sunjata to the Communist Manifesto, Puchner reveals world literature in a new light—as an archive of environmental exploitation and a product of a way of life responsible for climate change. Literature depends on millennia of intensive agriculture, urbanization, and resource extraction, from the clay of ancient tablets to the silicon of e-readers. Yet literature also offers powerful ways to change attitudes toward the environment. Puchner uncovers the ecological thinking behind the idea of world literature since the early nineteenth century, proposes a new way of reading in a warming world, shows how literature can help us recognize our shared humanity, and discusses the possible futures of storytelling.If we are to avoid environmental disaster, we must learn to tell the story of humans as a species responsible for global warming. Filled with important insights about the fundamental relationship between storytelling and the environment, Literature for a Changing Planet is a clarion call for readers and writers who care about the fate of life on the planet

     

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    ISBN: 9780691230429
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    Schriftenreihe: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities/Princeton University Press Lectures in European Culture ; 1
    Schlagworte: Climatic changes in literature; Ecocriticism; Literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature
    Weitere Schlagworte: Adventure Story (play); Aeneid; Age of Oil; Antihero; Aratta; Author; Book; Caesar and Pompey; City-state; Climate change; Colonial empire; Colonialism; Colonization; Comparative literature; Confucius; Conquistador; Critical reading; Deep history; Disaster; Divine retribution; Ecocriticism; Ecology; Economic globalization; Edition (book); Education; Enkidu; Enlil; Environmental economics; Epic of Gilgamesh; Epic poetry; Fan fiction; Flood myth; G. (novel); Genre; Global warming; Globalization; Hard Choices; Headline; Henry David Thoreau; Hippie; How It Happened; Humbaba; Immigration law; Industrialisation; Jataka tales; Johannes Gutenberg; Latin alphabet; Latin literature; Literary criticism; Literary realism; Literature; Manifesto; Mechanization; Narrative; New Narrative; New media; Novel; Novelist; Occupy Wall Street; Odysseus; Odyssey; Of Education; Orality; Poetry; Polyphemus; Popol Vuh; Preface; Publication; Publishing; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Refugee; Renaissance humanism; Right of asylum; Save the Planet; Scholarly method; Scrutiny (journal); Scrutiny; Settlement movement; Settler colonialism; Social movement; Sociocultural evolution; Storytelling; The Communist Manifesto; The Realist; The Various; Think tank; To This Day; Trickster; Unintended consequences; Uruk; Utnapishtim; Wai Chee Dimock; Western literature; William H. McNeill (historian); World economy; World history; World literature; Writer; Writing system; Writing
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (160 Seiten), 6 b/w illus
  2. Up from the Depths
    Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times
    Autor*in: Sachs, Aaron
    Erschienen: [2022]; ©2022
    Verlag:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

    A double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisisUp from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important... mehr

     

    A double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisisUp from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history—the novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819–1891) and one of his earliest biographers, the literary critic and historian Lewis Mumford (1895–1990). Deftly cutting back and forth between the writers, Aaron Sachs reveals the surprising resonances between their lives, work, and troubled times—and their uncanny relevance in our own age of crisis.The author of Moby-Dick was largely forgotten for several decades after his death, but Mumford helped spearhead Melville’s revival in the aftermath of World War I and the 1918–1919 flu pandemic, when American culture needed a forebear with a suitably dark vision. As Mumford’s career took off and he wrote books responding to the machine age, urban decay, world war, and environmental degradation, it was looking back to Melville’s confrontation with crises such as industrialization, slavery, and the Civil War that helped Mumford to see his own era clearly. Mumford remained obsessed with Melville, ultimately helping to canonize him as America’s greatest tragedian. But largely forgotten today is one of Mumford’s key insights—that Melville’s darkness was balanced by an inspiring determination to endure.Amid today’s foreboding over global warming, racism, technology, pandemics, and other crises, Melville and Mumford remind us that we’ve been in this struggle for a long time. To rediscover these writers today is to rediscover how history can offer hope in dark times

     

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    ISBN: 9780691236940
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    Schlagworte: HISTORY / United States / General
    Weitere Schlagworte: A. Mitchell Palmer; Abolitionism; Adam Hochschild; Ahab; Ambiguity; Americans; At the Core; Awareness; Barbarian; Billy Budd; Biography; Captain Ahab; Career; City Of; Clarel; Commodity; Consciousness; Continuance; Countermovement; Cultural evolution; Deep history; Determination; Disenchantment; Dynasty; E. M. Forster; Emblem; Environmentalism; Escapism; Essay; Ethos; Exploration; Frigate; George Perkins Marsh; Gilded Age; Grief; Henry David Thoreau; Herman Melville; His Family; Human Desire; Imperialism; Impressment; In This World; In the Life; John Claggart; Joseph Conrad; Kitimat; Langston Hughes; Lewis Mumford; Lifeway; Malcolm Cowley; Manifest destiny; Mechanization; Memoir; Michael Shelden; Moby-Dick; Modernity; Monomania; Mr; Narrative; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Near East; Oahu; Omoo; Optimism; Organism; Poetry; Prometheus; Puritans; Queequeg; Redburn; Reign; Remarkable; Requirement; Role; Romanticism; Scientism; Scurvy; Slang; Slavery; Suffering; Technology; The Conduct of Life; The Encantadas; The Golden Day; The Other Hand; The Philosopher; The Rest of the Story; The Spirit of the Age; Tropic of Capricorn; Typee; Uncertainty; Utopia; V; W. Somerset Maugham; Warfare; White-Jacket; William Roscoe; Woolf; Works and Days; Writing
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (472 Seiten), 18 b/w illus
  3. Up from the Depths
    Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times
    Autor*in: Sachs, Aaron
    Erschienen: [2022]; ©2022
    Verlag:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

    A double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisisUp from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important... mehr

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    A double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisisUp from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history—the novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819–1891) and one of his earliest biographers, the literary critic and historian Lewis Mumford (1895–1990). Deftly cutting back and forth between the writers, Aaron Sachs reveals the surprising resonances between their lives, work, and troubled times—and their uncanny relevance in our own age of crisis.The author of Moby-Dick was largely forgotten for several decades after his death, but Mumford helped spearhead Melville’s revival in the aftermath of World War I and the 1918–1919 flu pandemic, when American culture needed a forebear with a suitably dark vision. As Mumford’s career took off and he wrote books responding to the machine age, urban decay, world war, and environmental degradation, it was looking back to Melville’s confrontation with crises such as industrialization, slavery, and the Civil War that helped Mumford to see his own era clearly. Mumford remained obsessed with Melville, ultimately helping to canonize him as America’s greatest tragedian. But largely forgotten today is one of Mumford’s key insights—that Melville’s darkness was balanced by an inspiring determination to endure.Amid today’s foreboding over global warming, racism, technology, pandemics, and other crises, Melville and Mumford remind us that we’ve been in this struggle for a long time. To rediscover these writers today is to rediscover how history can offer hope in dark times

     

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  4. Literature for a Changing Planet
    Autor*in: Puchner, Martin
    Erschienen: [2022]; 2022
    Verlag:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    Frontmatter -- Contents -- PREAMBLE. Literature for a Changing Planet -- CHAPTER ONE. Reading in a Warming World -- CHAPTER TWO. A Revolution in Accounting -- CHAPTER THREE. The Two Faces of World Literature -- CHAPTER FOUR. How to Anthologize the... mehr

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    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- PREAMBLE. Literature for a Changing Planet -- CHAPTER ONE. Reading in a Warming World -- CHAPTER TWO. A Revolution in Accounting -- CHAPTER THREE. The Two Faces of World Literature -- CHAPTER FOUR. How to Anthologize the World -- CHAPTER FIVE. Stories for the Future -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- Notes -- Index Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastropheReading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddling while Rome burns. Yet, at this turning point for the planet, scientists, policymakers, and activists have woken up to the power of stories in the fight against global warming. In Literature for a Changing Planet, Martin Puchner ranges across four thousand years of world literature to draw vital lessons about how we put ourselves on the path of climate change-and how we might change paths before it's too late.From the Epic of Gilgamesh and the West African Epic of Sunjata to the Communist Manifesto, Puchner reveals world literature in a new light-as an archive of environmental exploitation and a product of a way of life responsible for climate change. Literature depends on millennia of intensive agriculture, urbanization, and resource extraction, from the clay of ancient tablets to the silicon of e-readers. Yet literature also offers powerful ways to change attitudes toward the environment. Puchner uncovers the ecological thinking behind the idea of world literature since the early nineteenth century, proposes a new way of reading in a warming world, shows how literature can help us recognize our shared humanity, and discusses the possible futures of storytelling.If we are to avoid environmental disaster, we must learn to tell the story of humans as a species responsible for global warming. Filled with important insights about the fundamental relationship between storytelling and the environment, Literature for a Changing Planet is a clarion call for readers and writers who care about the fate of life on the planet

     

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    ISBN: 9780691230429
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    RVK Klassifikation: EC 1879
    Schriftenreihe: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities/Princeton University Press Lectures in European Culture
    Schlagworte: Climatic changes in literature; Ecocriticism; Literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature
    Weitere Schlagworte: Adventure Story (play); Aeneid; Age of Oil; Antihero; Aratta; Author; Book; Caesar and Pompey; City-state; Climate change; Colonial empire; Colonialism; Colonization; Comparative literature; Confucius; Conquistador; Critical reading; Deep history; Disaster; Divine retribution; Ecocriticism; Ecology; Economic globalization; Edition (book); Education; Enkidu; Enlil; Environmental economics; Epic of Gilgamesh; Epic poetry
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (145 Seiten), Illustrationen, Diagramme