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  1. Literature for a Changing Planet
    Author: Puchner, Martin
    Published: [2022]; ©2022
    Publisher:  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... more

     

    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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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780691230429
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    Series: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities/Princeton University Press Lectures in European Culture ; 1
    Subjects: Climatic changes in literature; Ecocriticism; Literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature
    Other subjects: 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
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (160 Seiten), 6 b/w illus
  2. What the Victorians made of romanticism
    material artifacts, cultural practices, and reception history
    Author: Mole, Tom
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    This insightful and elegantly written book examines how the popular media of the Victorian era sustained and transformed the reputations of Romantic writers. Tom Mole provides a new reception history of Lord Byron, Felicia Hemans, Sir Walter Scott,... more

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    This insightful and elegantly written book examines how the popular media of the Victorian era sustained and transformed the reputations of Romantic writers. Tom Mole provides a new reception history of Lord Byron, Felicia Hemans, Sir Walter Scott, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and William Wordsworth--one that moves beyond the punctual historicism of much recent criticism and the narrow horizons of previous reception histories. He attends instead to the material artifacts and cultural practices that remediated Romantic writers and their works amid shifting understandings of history, memory, and media. Mole scrutinizes Victorian efforts to canonize and commodify Romantic writers in a changed media ecology. He shows how illustrated books renovated Romantic writing, how preachers incorporated irreligious Romantics into their sermons, how new statues and memorials integrated Romantic writers into an emerging national pantheon, and how anthologies mediated their works to new generations. This ambitious study investigates a wide range of material objects Victorians made in response to Romantic writing--such as photographs, postcards, books, and collectibles--that in turn remade the public's understanding of Romantic writers

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781400887897; 1400887895
    Subjects: English literature; Romanticism; Littérature anglaise - 19e siècle - Histoire et critique; Romantisme - Grande-Bretagne - 19e siècle; LITERARY CRITICISM - European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English literature; Romanticism; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Other subjects: Algernon Charles Swinburne; Anecdote; Anthology; Atheism; Author; Benjamin Disraeli; Biography; Book design; Calton Hill; Cambridge University Press; Charles Dickens; Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; Christianity; Clergy; Edition (book); Embellishment; English literature; English poetry; Engraving; Felicia Hemans; First appearance; Franco Moretti; Frank Kermode; George Eliot; God; Guide to the Lakes; Handbook; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Hebrew Melodies; Henry Chorley; Illustration; Illustrator; Jerome McGann; John Ruskin; Lecture; Literary criticism; Literature; Long poem; Lord Byron; Mary Shelley; Matthew Arnold; Modernity; Narrative; National Library of Scotland; New Generation (Malayalam film movement); New Historicism; New media; Newspaper; Novel; Paratext; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Photography; Poet; Poetry; Poets' Corner; Postcard; Preface; Princes Street Gardens; Princeton University Press; Print culture; Printing; Printmaking; Prometheus Unbound (Aeschylus); Prose; Publication; Publishing; Queen Mab; Religion; Reprint; Romantic poetry; Romanticism; Scott Monument; Scott's (restaurant); Secularization; Sensibility; Sermon; She Walks in Beauty; Special collections; Stanza; Stephen Greenblatt; Subjectivity; Supporter; T. S. Eliot; The Anthologist; The Aspern Papers; The Destruction of Sennacherib; The Giaour; The Lay of the Last Minstrel; The Other Hand; The Pencil of Nature; Theology; Troilus and Criseyde; Victorian era; Wai Chee Dimock; Walter Benjamin; William Michael Rossetti; William Shakespeare; William Wordsworth; Writer; Writing
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    The web of reception. Romantic writers in the Victorian media ecology -- Reception traditions and punctual historicism -- Minding the generation gap -- Illustrations. Illustration as renovation -- Renovating romantic poetry: retrofitted illustrations -- Turning the page: illustrated frontmatter -- Sermons. A religious reception tradition -- Converting Shelley -- Spurgeon, Byron, and the contingencies of mediation -- Statues. -- Secular pantheons for the reformed: Byron in Cambridge -- The distributed pantheon: Scott in Edinburgh -- The networked Pantheon: Byron in London -- Anthologies. Scattered odes in shattered books: quantifying Victorian anthologies -- Romantic short poems in Victorian anthologies -- Romantic long poems in Victorian anthologies -- Coda: Ozymandias at the Olympics; or, she walks in Brixton.