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  1. Chaos and Cosmos
    Literary Roots of Modern Ecology in the British Nineteenth Century
    Author: Scott, Heidi C. M.
    Published: [2021]; © 2014
    Publisher:  Penn State University Press, University Park, PA

    In Chaos and Cosmos, Heidi Scott integrates literary readings with contemporary ecological methods to investigate two essential and contrasting paradigms of nature that scientific ecology continues to debate: chaos and balance. Ecological literature... more

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    In Chaos and Cosmos, Heidi Scott integrates literary readings with contemporary ecological methods to investigate two essential and contrasting paradigms of nature that scientific ecology continues to debate: chaos and balance. Ecological literature of the Romantic and Victorian eras uses environmental chaos and the figure of the balanced microcosm as tropes essential to understanding natural patterns, and these eras were the first to reflect upon the ecological degradations of the Industrial Revolution. Chaos and Cosmos contends that the seed of imagination that would enable a scientist to study a lake as a microcosmic world at the formal, empirical level was sown by Romantic and Victorian poets who consciously drew a sphere around their perceptions in order to make sense of spots of time and place amid the globalizing modern world. This study's interest goes beyond likening literary tropes to scientific aesthetics; it aims to theorize the interdisciplinary history of the concepts that underlie our scientific understanding of modern nature. Paradigmatic ecological ideas such as ecosystems, succession dynamics, punctuated equilibrium, and climate change are shown to have a literary foundation that preceded their status as theories in science. This book represents an elevation of the prospects of ecocriticism toward fully developed interdisciplinary potentials of literary ecology

     
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    ISBN: 9780271064291
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    Subjects: NATURE / Ecology
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (224 Seiten)
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  2. Plants in children's and young adult literature
    Contributor: Duckworth, Melanie (HerausgeberIn); Guanio-Uluru, Lykke (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York

    "This lively collection, the first of its kind, maps out and analyses the diverse representation of plants in children's and YA literatures internationally, from the perspective of the rapidly expanding field of cultural plant studies"-- more

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    "This lively collection, the first of its kind, maps out and analyses the diverse representation of plants in children's and YA literatures internationally, from the perspective of the rapidly expanding field of cultural plant studies"--

     
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    Contributor: Duckworth, Melanie (HerausgeberIn); Guanio-Uluru, Lykke (HerausgeberIn)
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    ISBN: 9781032066356
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    Series: Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture
    Subjects: Plants in literature; Children's literature; Young adult literature; Literary criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's Literature; NATURE / Ecology; Electronic books
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 203 Seiten)
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  3. Cultivation and catastrophe
    the lyric ecology of modern Black literature
    Author: Posmentier, Sonya
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore

    "At the intersection of social and environmental history there has emerged a rich body of black literary response to natural and agricultural experiences, whether the legacy of enforced agricultural labor or of the destruction and displacement... more

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    "At the intersection of social and environmental history there has emerged a rich body of black literary response to natural and agricultural experiences, whether the legacy of enforced agricultural labor or of the destruction and displacement brought about by a hurricane. In Cultivation and Catastrophe, Sonya Posmentier uncovers a vivid diasporic tradition of black environmental writing that responds to the aftermath of plantation slavery, urbanization, and free and forced migrations. While humanist discourses of African American and postcolonial studies often sustain a line between nature and culture, this book instead emphasizes the relationship between them, offering an innovative environmental history of modern black literature. Posmentier argues that environmental experiences of growth and rupture define the literature of black freedom, an archive that ranges from sonnets, mini-epics, documentary poems, periodicals, and novels to blues songs, dancehall productions, and ethnographic writing. In turn, this literature generates important and surprising models for ecological thought. Claude McKay, for example, connects rows of potatoes to the poetic line; Zora Neale Hurston composes rhythmic communal lyrics in the Florida "muck" following a deadly hurricane; and Derek Walcott critiques property-based ecological relations through the archipelagic shape of his mid-career poetry. Posmentier examines how these writers, along with Gwendolyn Brooks, Bessie Smith, Sterling Brown, Lloyd Lovindeer, Kamau Brathwaite, and others give voice to racialized experiences of alienation from the land while simultaneously envisioning a modern poetics of survival, repair, and generation. Going against the grain of scholarship that has situated modern black diasporic agency largely in metropolitan sites, Posmentier traces a black literary history of environmental and social disaster while exploring the possibilities and limits of poetry as an archive for black modern culture in its many forms. This pathbreaking book offers stunning new insight into modern black literature, environmental humanities, and poetry and poetics"...

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 1421437937; 9781421437934
    Series: The Callaloo African diaspora series
    Subjects: American literature; American literature; Caribbean literature; Caribbean literature; Nature in literature; Ecology in literature; Blacks; African Americans; African diaspora; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American; NATURE / Ecology; Schwarze; Literatur; Umwelt <Motiv>; Lyrik
    Scope: xiv, 282 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  4. Cultivation and catastrophe
    the lyric ecology of modern Black literature
    Author: Posmentier, Sonya
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore

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  5. Chaos and Cosmos
    Literary Roots of Modern Ecology in the British Nineteenth Century
    Author: Scott, Heidi C. M.
    Published: [2014]; ©2014
    Publisher:  Penn State University Press, University Park, PA ; Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin

    In Chaos and Cosmos, Heidi Scott integrates literary readings with contemporary ecological methods to investigate two essential and contrasting paradigms of nature that scientific ecology continues to debate: chaos and balance. Ecological literature... more

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    In Chaos and Cosmos, Heidi Scott integrates literary readings with contemporary ecological methods to investigate two essential and contrasting paradigms of nature that scientific ecology continues to debate: chaos and balance. Ecological literature of the Romantic and Victorian eras uses environmental chaos and the figure of the balanced microcosm as tropes essential to understanding natural patterns, and these eras were the first to reflect upon the ecological degradations of the Industrial Revolution. Chaos and Cosmos contends that the seed of imagination that would enable a scientist to study a lake as a microcosmic world at the formal, empirical level was sown by Romantic and Victorian poets who consciously drew a sphere around their perceptions in order to make sense of spots of time and place amid the globalizing modern world. This study’s interest goes beyond likening literary tropes to scientific aesthetics; it aims to theorize the interdisciplinary history of the concepts that underlie our scientific understanding of modern nature. Paradigmatic ecological ideas such as ecosystems, succession dynamics, punctuated equilibrium, and climate change are shown to have a literary foundation that preceded their status as theories in science. This book represents an elevation of the prospects of ecocriticism toward fully developed interdisciplinary potentials of literary ecology.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780271064291
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    Subjects: NATURE / Ecology
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (224 p.)
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  6. Climate fiction and cultural analysis
    a new perspective on life in the anthropocene
    Author: Andersen, Gregers
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Routledge, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "Climate Fiction and Cultural Analysis argues that the popularity of the term "climate fiction" has paradoxically exhausted the term's descriptive power and developed into a black box containing all kinds of fictions which depict climatic events and... more

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    "Climate Fiction and Cultural Analysis argues that the popularity of the term "climate fiction" has paradoxically exhausted the term's descriptive power and developed into a black box containing all kinds of fictions which depict climatic events and consequently lost its true significance. Aware of the prospect of ecological collapse as well as our apparently inability to avert it, we face geophysical changes of drastic proportions that severely challenge our ability to imagine the consequences. This book argues that this crisis of imagination can be partly relieved by climate fiction, which may help us comprehend the potential impact of the crisis we are facing. Strictly assigning "climate fiction" to fictions that incorporate the climatological paradigm of anthropogenic global warming into their plots, this book sets out to salvage the term's speculative quality. It argues that climate fiction should be regarded as no less than a vital supplement to climate science, because climate fiction makes visible and conceivable future modes of existence within worlds no only deemed likely by science, but which are scientifically anticipated. Focusing primarily on English and German language fictions, Climate Fiction and Cultural Analysis shows how Western climate fiction sketches various affective and cognitive relations to the world in its utilisation of a small number of recurring imaginaries or imagination forms. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of ecocriticism, the environmental humanities and literary and culture studies more generally"--...

     
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  7. The Anthropocene
    key issues for the humanities
    Author: Horn, Eva; Bergthaller, Hannes
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

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    ISBN: 9780429439735
    RVK Categories: EC 1879 ; AR 14900
    Series: Key issues in environment and sustainability
    Subjects: Anthropozän; Humanökologie; Ecocriticism; Human ecology and the humanities; Human ecology; Nature (Aesthetics); Environment (Aesthetics); Biopolitics; Sustainability; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; NATURE / Ecology
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  8. Wild romanticism
    Contributor: Poetzsch, Markus (Herausgeber); Falke, Cassandra (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Routledge, London ; Taylor & Francis Group, New York

    Wild Romanticism consolidates contemporary thinking about conceptions of the wild in British and European Romanticism, clarifying the emergence of wilderness as a cultural, symbolic, and ecological idea. This volume brings together the work of twelve... more

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    Wild Romanticism consolidates contemporary thinking about conceptions of the wild in British and European Romanticism, clarifying the emergence of wilderness as a cultural, symbolic, and ecological idea. This volume brings together the work of twelve scholars, who examine representations of wildness in canonical texts such as Frankenstein, Northanger Abbey, "Kubla Khan," "Expostulation and Reply," and Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, as well as lesser-known works by Radcliffe, Clare, Hlderlin, P.B. Shelley, and Hogg. Celebrating the wild provided Romantic-period authors with a way of thinking about nature that resists instrumentalization and anthropocentricism, but writing about wilderness also engaged them in debates about the sublime and picturesque as aesthetic categories, about gender and the cultivation of independence as natural, and about the ability of natural forces to resist categorical or literal enclosure. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Romanticism, environmental literature, environmental history, and the environmental humanities more broadly

     
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    Contributor: Poetzsch, Markus (Herausgeber); Falke, Cassandra (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780367496746
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    Series: Routledge environmental literature, culture and media
    Earthscan
    Subjects: European literature; English literature; Romanticism; Romanticism; Nature in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; NATURE / Ecology
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 211 Seiten), Illustrationen
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  9. Routledge handbook of ecocriticism and environmental communication
    Contributor: Slovic, Scott (Herausgeber); Rangarajan, Swarnalatha (Herausgeber); Sarveswaran, Vidya (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    Ecocriticism and environmental communication studies have for many years co-existed as parallel disciplines, occasionally crossing paths but typically operating in separate academic spheres. These fields are now rapidly converging, and this handbook... more

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    Ecocriticism and environmental communication studies have for many years co-existed as parallel disciplines, occasionally crossing paths but typically operating in separate academic spheres. These fields are now rapidly converging, and this handbook aims to reinforce the common concerns and methodologies of the sibling disciplines. The Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication charts the history of the relationship between ecocriticism and environmental communication studies, while also highlighting key new paradigms in information studies, diverse examples of practical applications of environmental communication and textual analysis, and the patterns and challenges of environmental communication in non-Western societies. Contributors to this book include literary, film and religious studies scholars, communication studies specialists, environmental historians, practicing journalists, art critics, linguists, ethnographers, sociologists, literary theorists, and others, but all focus their discussions on key issues in textual representations of human-nature relationships and on the challenges and possibilities of environmental communication. The handbook is designed to map existing trends in both ecocriticism and environmental communication and to predict future directions. This handbook will be an essential reference for teachers, students, and practitioners of environmental literature, film, journalism, communication, and rhetoric, and well as the broader meta-discipline of environmental humanities

     
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    Contributor: Slovic, Scott (Herausgeber); Rangarajan, Swarnalatha (Herausgeber); Sarveswaran, Vidya (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781315167343; 9781351682695; 9781351682701; 9781351682688
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    Series: Routledge international handbooks
    Subjects: Ecocriticism; Ecocriticism; Communication in the environmental sciences; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; NATURE / Ecology
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  10. Cosmological readings of contemporary Australian literature
    unsettling the anthropocene
    Author: Bartha-Mitchell, Kathrin
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "This book presents a detailed and innovative reading of contemporary Australian literature in the context of unprecedented ecological crisis. The Australian continent has seen significant, rapid changes to its cultures and land use from the impact... more

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    "This book presents a detailed and innovative reading of contemporary Australian literature in the context of unprecedented ecological crisis. The Australian continent has seen significant, rapid changes to its cultures and land use from the impact of British colonial rule, yet there is a rich history of Indigenous land-ethics and cosmological thought. By using the age-old idea of 'cosmos' - the order of the world - to foreground ideas of order, reciprocity, and more-than-human agency, this book interrogates the Anthropocene in Australia, focusing on notions of colonisation, farming, mining, bioethics, technology, environmental justice and sovereignty. It offers 'cosmological readings' of a diverse range of authors-Indigenous and non-Indigenous-as a challenge to the Anthropocene's decline narrative. As a result, it reactivates 'cosmos' as an ethical vision and a transculturally important counter-concept to the Anthropocene. Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell argues that the arts have the potential to help us envision radical cosmologies of being in and with the world, and to address the very real social and environmental problems of our era. This book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of ecocriticism, environmental humanities, and postcolonial and Indigenous studies, with a primary focus on Australian, New Zealand, Oceanic, and Pacific area studies"--...

     
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    ISBN: 9781003312154; 1003312152; 9781003815952; 1003815952; 9781003815884; 100381588X
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    Series: Routledge environmental literature, culture and media
    Subjects: Australian literature; Human ecology in literature; Human ecology and the humanities; Cosmology in literature; Ecocriticism; FICTION / Literary; NATURE / Ecology
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  11. The Zen of ecopoetics
    cosmological imaginations in modernist American poetry
    Author: Azambuja, Enaiê Mairê
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Routledge, London ; Taylor & Francis Group

    "This book is the first comprehensive study investigating the cultural affinities and resonances of Zen in early twentieth-century American poetry and its contribution to current definitions of ecopoetics, focusing on four key poets: William Carlos... more

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    "This book is the first comprehensive study investigating the cultural affinities and resonances of Zen in early twentieth-century American poetry and its contribution to current definitions of ecopoetics, focusing on four key poets: William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens and E.E. Cummings. Bringing together a range of texts and perspectives and using an interdisciplinary approach that draws on Eastern and Western philosophies, including Zen and Taoism, posthumanism and new materialism, this book adds to and extends the field of ecocriticism into new debates. Its broad approach, informed by literary studies, ecocriticism, and religious studies, proposes the expansion of ecopoetics to include the relationship between poetic materiality and spirituality. It develops 'cosmopoetics' as a new literary-theoretical concept of the poetic imagination as a contemplative means to achieving a deeper understanding of the human interdependence with the non-human. Addressing the critical gap between materialism and spirituality in modernist American poetry, The Zen of Ecopoetics promotes new forms of awareness and understanding about our relationship with non-human beings and environments. It will be of interest to scholars, researchers and students in ecocriticism, literary theory, poetry and religious studies"--...

     
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    ISBN: 9781003358749; 1003358748; 9781003837848; 1003837840; 9781003837824; 1003837824
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    Series: Routledge environmental literature, culture and media
    Subjects: American poetry; Modernism (Literature); Buddhism in literature; Buddhism and literature; Ecocriticism; Poetics; NATURE / Ecology; PHILOSOPHY / Eastern / Zen; POETRY / American
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  12. Poetry and the global climate crisis
    creative educational approaches to complex challenges
    Contributor: Ede, Amatoritsero (Herausgeber); Kleppe, Sandra Lee (Herausgeber); Sorby, Angela (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "This book demonstrates how humans can become sensitised to, and intervene in, environmental degradation by writing, reading, analysing and teaching poetry. It offers both theoretical and practice-based essays, providing a diversity of approaches and... more

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    "This book demonstrates how humans can become sensitised to, and intervene in, environmental degradation by writing, reading, analysing and teaching poetry. It offers both theoretical and practice-based essays, providing a diversity of approaches and voices that will be useful in the classroom and beyond. The chapters in this edited collection explore how poetry can make readers climate-ready and climate-responsive through creativity, empathy and empowerment. The book encompasses work from or about Oceania, Africa, Europe, North America, Asia, and Antarctica, integrating poetry into discussions of specific local and global issues, including the value of Indigenous responses to climate change; the dynamics of climate migration; the shifting boundaries between the human and more-than-human world; the eco-poetics of the prison-industrial complex; and the ongoing environmental effects of colonialism, racism, and sexism. With numerous examples of how poetry reading, teaching and learning can enhance or modify mindsets, the book focuses on offering creative, practical approaches and tools that educators can implement into their teaching and equipping them with the theoretical knowledge to support these. This volume will appeal to educational professionals engaged in teaching environmental, sustainability, and development topics, particularly from a humanities-led perspective"--...

     
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    Contributor: Ede, Amatoritsero (Herausgeber); Kleppe, Sandra Lee (Herausgeber); Sorby, Angela (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781003399988; 1003399983; 9781000998474; 1000998479; 9781000998429; 1000998428
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    Series: Research and teaching in environmental studies
    Subjects: Poetry; Climatic changes in literature; Global environmental change in literature; Ecology in literature; Poetry; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development; EDUCATION / Professional Development; NATURE / Ecology
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  13. Environmental justice in early Victorian literature
    Author: Tate, Adrian
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Routledge, London ; Taylor & Francis Group

    "This innovative new book combines environmental justice scholarship with a material ecocriticism to explore the way in which early Victorian literature (1837-1860) responded to the growing problem of environmental injustice. As this book emphasises,... more

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    "This innovative new book combines environmental justice scholarship with a material ecocriticism to explore the way in which early Victorian literature (1837-1860) responded to the growing problem of environmental injustice. As this book emphasises, environmental injustice - simply, the convergence of poverty and pollution - was not an isolated phenomenon, but a structural form of inequality: a product of industrial modernity's radical reformation of British society, it particularly affected the working classes. As each chapter reveals in detail, this form of environmental inequality (or 'classism') drew sharply critical reactions from figures as diverse as Thomas Carlyle, Friedrich Engels, Charles Dickens, and John Ruskin, and from within the Chartist movement, as working-class writers themselves reacted to the hazardous realities of a divided society. But as this book also reveals, these writers recognised that a truly just society respects the needs of the nonhuman and takes account of the material world in all its own aliveness; even if only tentatively, they reached for a more inclusive, emergent form of justice that might address the social and ecological impacts of industrial modernity, an idea which is no less relevant today. This book represents an indispensable resource for scholars and students working in the fields of Victorian literature, environmental justice, and ecocriticism"--...

     
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    ISBN: 9780367821609; 0367821605; 9781000923056; 1000923053; 9781000923124; 1000923126
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    Series: Routledge studies in environmental justice
    Subjects: English fiction; Environmental justice in literature; Environmental protection in literature; Human ecology in literature; Ecocriticism; NATURE / Ecology
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  14. Subterranean imaginaries and groundwater narratives
    Author: Wardle, Deborah
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "This book interrogates the problems of how and why largely unseen matter, in this case groundwater, has found limited expression in climate fiction. It explores key considerations for writing groundwater narratives in the Anthropocene. The book... more

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    "This book interrogates the problems of how and why largely unseen matter, in this case groundwater, has found limited expression in climate fiction. It explores key considerations for writing groundwater narratives in the Anthropocene. The book investigates a unique selection of climate fiction alongside an exploration of hydrosocial environmental humanities through a focus on groundwater and groundwater narratives. Providing eco-critical analysis, with creative fiction and non-fiction excerpts interwoven throughout, and drawing on Indigenous Australian and Australian settler novels and poems alongside European, American and Japanese texts, the book illuminates the processes of 'storying with' subterranean waters - their facts, uncertainties, potencies and vulnerabilities. In a time when the water crisis in an Australian and worldwide context is escalating in response to global warming, giving voice to the complexities of groundwater extraction and pollution is vital. Drawing from non-representational, posthumanist and feminist perspectives, the book provides an important contribution to transnational, comparative climate fiction analysis, enabling an interdisciplinary exchange between hydrogeological science and the eco-humanities. This book is an engaging read for scholars and students in creative writing, environmental humanities, cultural and post-colonial studies, Australian studies and eco-critical literary studies. Writers and thinkers addressing the problems of the Anthropocene are called to pay attention to the importance of subterranean imaginaries and groundwater narratives"--...

     
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    ISBN: 9781003270416; 1003270417; 9781000959666; 100095966X; 9781000959703; 1000959708
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    Series: Routledge environmental humanities
    Subjects: Groundwater in literature; Underground areas in literature; Climatic changes in literature; Water in literature; Ecoliterature; NATURE / Ecology
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  15. Plants in children's and young adult literature
    Contributor: Duckworth, Melanie (Herausgeber); Guanio-Uluru, Lykke (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "This lively collection, the first of its kind, maps out and analyses the diverse representation of plants in children's and YA literatures internationally, from the perspective of the rapidly expanding field of cultural plant studies"--... more

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    "This lively collection, the first of its kind, maps out and analyses the diverse representation of plants in children's and YA literatures internationally, from the perspective of the rapidly expanding field of cultural plant studies"--...

     
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    Contributor: Duckworth, Melanie (Herausgeber); Guanio-Uluru, Lykke (Herausgeber)
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    ISBN: 9781032066356; 1032066350; 100046914X; 9781000469189; 1000469182; 9781000469141
    Series: Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture
    Subjects: Plants in literature; Children's literature; Young adult literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's Literature; NATURE / Ecology
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  16. Plants in children's and young adult literature
    Contributor: Duckworth, Melanie (HerausgeberIn); Guanio-Uluru, Lykke (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York

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    ISBN: 9781032066356
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    Series: Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture
    Subjects: Plants in literature; Children's literature; Young adult literature; Literary criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's Literature; NATURE / Ecology; Electronic books
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  17. Cultivation and catastrophe
    the lyric ecology of modern black literature
    Author: Posmentier, Sonya
    Published: 2017
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    "At the intersection of social and environmental history there has emerged a rich body of black literary response to natural and agricultural experiences, whether the legacy of enforced agricultural labor or of the destruction and displacement brought about by a hurricane. In Cultivation and Catastrophe, Sonya Posmentier uncovers a vivid diasporic tradition of black environmental writing that responds to the aftermath of plantation slavery, urbanization, and free and forced migrations. While humanist discourses of African American and postcolonial studies often sustain a line between nature and culture, this book instead emphasizes the relationship between them, offering an innovative environmental history of modern black literature. Posmentier argues that environmental experiences of growth and rupture define the literature of black freedom, an archive that ranges from sonnets, mini-epics, documentary poems, periodicals, and novels to blues songs, dancehall productions, and ethnographic writing. In turn, this literature generates important and surprising models for ecological thought. Claude McKay, for example, connects rows of potatoes to the poetic line; Zora Neale Hurston composes rhythmic communal lyrics in the Florida "muck" following a deadly hurricane; and Derek Walcott critiques property-based ecological relations through the archipelagic shape of his mid-career poetry. Posmentier examines how these writers, along with Gwendolyn Brooks, Bessie Smith, Sterling Brown, Lloyd Lovindeer, Kamau Brathwaite, and others give voice to racialized experiences of alienation from the land while simultaneously envisioning a modern poetics of survival, repair, and generation. Going against the grain of scholarship that has situated modern black diasporic agency largely in metropolitan sites, Posmentier traces a black literary history of environmental and social disaster while exploring the possibilities and limits of poetry as an archive for black modern culture in its many forms. This pathbreaking book offers stunning new insight into modern black literature, environmental humanities, and poetry and poetics"...

     
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  18. Computer-based environmental management
    Author: Seppelt, Ralf
    Published: © 2003
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    ISBN: 9783527611515; 3527611517; 9783527609215; 3527609210; 1280921536; 9781280921537; 352730732X
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    Subjects: Environnement / Gestion; Environnement / Gestion / Simulation par ordinateur; SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental); NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Wilderness; NATURE / Ecology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology; Ökologie; Environmental management; Environmental management / Computer simulation; Ökologie; Umwelt; Umweltschutz; Computersimulation; Mathematisches Modell; Umweltbezogenes Management; Landnutzung <Motiv>
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    Here, the author provides professionals in environmental research and management with the information they need with respect to computer modeling: An understanding of the mathematical fundamentals and the choice of the optimal approach and corresponding software for their particular task.: Numerous illustrations, flowcharts and graphs, partly in color, as well as worked examples help in comprehending complex mathematical tasks and their solutions without the use of confusing mathematical formalism; Case studies from various fields of environmental research, such as landscape ecology, environme
  19. The ecological thought
    Author: Morton, Timothy
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts

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  20. Chaos and Cosmos
    Literary Roots of Modern Ecology in the British Nineteenth Century
    Author: Scott, Heidi C. M.
    Published: [2021]; © 2014
    Publisher:  Penn State University Press, University Park, PA

    In Chaos and Cosmos, Heidi Scott integrates literary readings with contemporary ecological methods to investigate two essential and contrasting paradigms of nature that scientific ecology continues to debate: chaos and balance. Ecological literature... more

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    In Chaos and Cosmos, Heidi Scott integrates literary readings with contemporary ecological methods to investigate two essential and contrasting paradigms of nature that scientific ecology continues to debate: chaos and balance. Ecological literature of the Romantic and Victorian eras uses environmental chaos and the figure of the balanced microcosm as tropes essential to understanding natural patterns, and these eras were the first to reflect upon the ecological degradations of the Industrial Revolution. Chaos and Cosmos contends that the seed of imagination that would enable a scientist to study a lake as a microcosmic world at the formal, empirical level was sown by Romantic and Victorian poets who consciously drew a sphere around their perceptions in order to make sense of spots of time and place amid the globalizing modern world. This study's interest goes beyond likening literary tropes to scientific aesthetics; it aims to theorize the interdisciplinary history of the concepts that underlie our scientific understanding of modern nature. Paradigmatic ecological ideas such as ecosystems, succession dynamics, punctuated equilibrium, and climate change are shown to have a literary foundation that preceded their status as theories in science. This book represents an elevation of the prospects of ecocriticism toward fully developed interdisciplinary potentials of literary ecology

     
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    ISBN: 9780271064291
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  21. Ecocriticism and Shakespeare
    reading ecophobia
    Author: Estok, Simon C.
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, New York

    "This book offers the term "ecophobia" as a way of understanding and organizing representations of contempt for the natural world. Estok argues that this vocabulary is both necessary to the developing area of ecocritical studies and for our... more

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    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series: Literatures, cultures and the environment
    Subjects: Ecocriticism; Nature in literature; Human ecology in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare; NATURE / Ecology; LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance; Wissen; Ökologie; Natur <Motiv>; Ecocriticism
    Other subjects: Shakespeare, William / 1564-1616 / Knowledge / Natural history; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
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  22. Ecocriticism and Shakespeare
    reading ecophobia
    Author: Estok, Simon C.
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan, New York

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    ISBN: 9780230112568; 9781137446893; 0230112560
    RVK Categories: HI 3325 ; HI 3385 ; HI 3390
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series: Literatures, cultures and the environment
    Subjects: Ecocriticism; Nature in literature; Human ecology in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare; NATURE / Ecology; LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance; Wissen; Ökologie; Natur <Motiv>; Ecocriticism
    Other subjects: Shakespeare, William / 1564-1616 / Knowledge / Natural history; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
    Scope: X, 182 S., Ill.
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    Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke

    Includes bibliographical references

    Machine generated contents note: -- Doing ecocriticism with Shakespeare * Dramatizing Environmental Fear: King Lear's Unpredictable Natural Spaces and Domestic Places * Coriolanus and ecocriticism: a study in confluent theorizing * Pushing the limits of ecocriticism: environment and social resistance in 2 Henry VI and 2 Henry IV * Monstrosity in Othello and Pericles: race, gender, and ecophobia * Disgust, metaphor, women: ecophobic confluences * Staging exotica and ecophobia * The ecocritical unconscious: early modern sleep as "go-between" * Coda: ecocriticism on the lip of a lion
  23. Bestial oblivion
    War, humanism, and ecology in early modern England
    Author: Bertram, Benjamin
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis,, Boca Raton, FL

    chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Erasmus and the Dung Beetle; or, Human Exceptionalism and Its Discontents -- chapter 2 Machiavelli, Virtù, and the Ecology of War -- chapter 3 Iron Men: Thomas Digges, A Larum for London, and the Elizabethan Cyborg... more

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    chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Erasmus and the Dung Beetle; or, Human Exceptionalism and Its Discontents -- chapter 2 Machiavelli, Virtù, and the Ecology of War -- chapter 3 Iron Men: Thomas Digges, A Larum for London, and the Elizabethan Cyborg -- chapter 4 War and Resilience: Tamburlaine the Great and the Anglo-Spanish War -- chapter 5 Bestial Oblivion in Shakespeare's Hamlet -- chapter 6 Thomas Coryate, the Lousy Humanist -- chapter 7 Humanity Under Siege: Francis Bacon's Human Empire and the Capitalocene.

     
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  24. Chaos and Cosmos
    Literary Roots of Modern Ecology in the British Nineteenth Century
    Author: Scott, Heidi C. M
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  Penn State University Press, University Park, PA

    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Beyond the Dichotomy -- PART 1 Chaos -- 1 Romantic Chaos: Natural Patterns Disturbed -- 2 Victorian Chaos: Industrial Disruptions -- 3 Today’s Science Nonfiction -- PART 2 Microcosm -- 4... more

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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Beyond the Dichotomy -- PART 1 Chaos -- 1 Romantic Chaos: Natural Patterns Disturbed -- 2 Victorian Chaos: Industrial Disruptions -- 3 Today’s Science Nonfiction -- PART 2 Microcosm -- 4 Romantic Microcosms: Brain Worlds -- 5 Victorian Microcosms: Domestic Systems -- 6 Today’s Scientific Modeling -- PART 3 Keats and Ecology: A Case Study -- 7 The Literary Empiricist -- 8 Hyperion: The Chaos of Tartarus -- 9 Microcosmic Odes -- Epilogue -- Works Consulted -- Index In Chaos and Cosmos, Heidi Scott integrates literary readings with contemporary ecological methods to investigate two essential and contrasting paradigms of nature that scientific ecology continues to debate: chaos and balance. Ecological literature of the Romantic and Victorian eras uses environmental chaos and the figure of the balanced microcosm as tropes essential to understanding natural patterns, and these eras were the first to reflect upon the ecological degradations of the Industrial Revolution. Chaos and Cosmos contends that the seed of imagination that would enable a scientist to study a lake as a microcosmic world at the formal, empirical level was sown by Romantic and Victorian poets who consciously drew a sphere around their perceptions in order to make sense of spots of time and place amid the globalizing modern world. This study’s interest goes beyond likening literary tropes to scientific aesthetics; it aims to theorize the interdisciplinary history of the concepts that underlie our scientific understanding of modern nature. Paradigmatic ecological ideas such as ecosystems, succession dynamics, punctuated equilibrium, and climate change are shown to have a literary foundation that preceded their status as theories in science. This book represents an elevation of the prospects of ecocriticism toward fully developed interdisciplinary potentials of literary ecology

     
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  25. Cultivation and catastrophe
    the lyric ecology of modern Black literature
    Author: Posmentier, Sonya
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore

    "At the intersection of social and environmental history there has emerged a rich body of black literary response to natural and agricultural experiences, whether the legacy of enforced agricultural labor or of the destruction and displacement... more

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    "At the intersection of social and environmental history there has emerged a rich body of black literary response to natural and agricultural experiences, whether the legacy of enforced agricultural labor or of the destruction and displacement brought about by a hurricane. In Cultivation and Catastrophe, Sonya Posmentier uncovers a vivid diasporic tradition of black environmental writing that responds to the aftermath of plantation slavery, urbanization, and free and forced migrations. While humanist discourses of African American and postcolonial studies often sustain a line between nature and culture, this book instead emphasizes the relationship between them, offering an innovative environmental history of modern black literature.^ ^Posmentier argues that environmental experiences of growth and rupture define the literature of black freedom, an archive that ranges from sonnets, mini-epics, documentary poems, periodicals, and novels to blues songs, dancehall productions, and ethnographic writing. In turn, this literature generates important and surprising models for ecological thought. Claude McKay, for example, connects rows of potatoes to the poetic line; Zora Neale Hurston composes rhythmic communal lyrics in the Florida "muck" following a deadly hurricane; and Derek Walcott critiques property-based ecological relations through the archipelagic shape of his mid-career poetry. Posmentier examines how these writers, along with Gwendolyn Brooks, Bessie Smith, Sterling Brown, Lloyd Lovindeer, Kamau Brathwaite, and others give voice to racialized experiences of alienation from the land while simultaneously envisioning a modern poetics of survival, repair, and generation.^ ^Going against the grain of scholarship that has situated modern black diasporic agency largely in metropolitan sites, Posmentier traces a black literary history of environmental and social disaster while exploring the possibilities and limits of poetry as an archive for black modern culture in its many forms. This pathbreaking book offers stunning new insight into modern black literature, environmental humanities, and poetry and poetics"..

     
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    ISBN: 1421437937; 9781421437934
    Series: <<The>> Callaloo African diaspora series
    Subjects: American literature; American literature; Caribbean literature; Caribbean literature; Nature in literature; Ecology in literature; Blacks; African Americans; African diaspora; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American; NATURE / Ecology
    Scope: xiv, 282 Seiten, Illustrationen
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