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McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson
The literary field of ecocriticism appraises texts from the perspective of the natural world, its biosystems, its animals (human and otherwise), and its ecological interconnections. Exploring a range of contemporary American novelists whose...
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The literary field of ecocriticism appraises texts from the perspective of the natural world, its biosystems, its animals (human and otherwise), and its ecological interconnections. Exploring a range of contemporary American novelists whose narratives resonate with numerous ecological challenges, this work examines humankind's relationship with the environment in the context of Judeo-Christian theological views. It demonstrates how characters from novels such as John Updike's Rabbit Run, DeLillo's White Noise, Toni Morrison's Paradise, and Cormac McCarthy's The Road take neopastoral journeys t
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Freud, Bakhtin, and Rabbit: an ecocritical look at totem, animism, and the rogue in John Updike's Rabbit, runAnd the word was made metaphor: Oedipa's religious instant in Thomas Pynchon's The crying of lot 49 -- Nature, god, and politics: deep ecology and Spinozan theory in Bernard Malamud's The fixer -- Apocalypse visited: toxic consciousness in Don Delillo's White noise -- Re-weaving master metaphors in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead -- Interlocking pillars of oppression: ecofeminist theology in Toni Morrison's Paradise -- Theories of ecotheology in Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal summer -- Sophia's table and nuclear narrative in Cormac McCarthy's The road.
