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  1. Environmental humanities on the brink
    the vanitas hypothesis
    Author: Bruyère, Vincent
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Stanford University Press, Stanford, California

    In this experimental work of ecocriticism, Vincent Bruyere confronts the seeming pointlessness of the humanities amidst spectacularly negative future projections of environmental collapse. The vanitas paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries... more

    Location:
    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Zentralbibliothek (ZB)
    Signature:
    91.443.87
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    In this experimental work of ecocriticism, Vincent Bruyere confronts the seeming pointlessness of the humanities amidst spectacularly negative future projections of environmental collapse. The vanitas paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries dazzlingly depict heaps of riches alongside skulls, shells, and hourglasses. Sometimes even featuring the illusion that their canvases are peeling away, vanitas images openly declare their own pointlessness in relation to the future. This book takes inspiration from the vanitas tradition to fearlessly contemplate the stakes of the humanities in the Anthropocene present, when the accumulated human record could well outlast the climate conditions for our survival. Staging a series of unsettling encounters with early modern texts and images whose claims of relevance have long since expired, Bruyere experiments with the interpretive affordances of allegory and fairytale, still life and travelogues. Each chapter places a vanitas motif - canvas, debris, toxics, paper, ark, meat, and light - in conversation with stories and images of the Anthropocene, from the Pleistocene Park geoengineering project to toxic legacies to in-vitro meat. Considering questions of quiet erasure and environmental memory, this book argues we ought to keep reading even by the flickering light of extinction.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781503638631; 9781503630505; 1503630501
    RVK Categories: LH 81280
    Subjects: Geisteswissenschaften; Ecocriticism; Vanitas; Ecocriticism; Vanitas (Art); Humanities; Ecocriticism; Humanities; Vanitas (Art)
    Scope: vi, 170 Seiten, Illustrationen
    Notes:

    Literaturverzeichnis Seite 151-164
  2. Environmental humanities on the brink
    the vanitas hypothesis
    Author: Bruyère, Vincent
    Published: [2023]; © 2023
    Publisher:  Stanford University Press, Stanford, California

    "In this experimental work of ecocriticism, Vincent Bruyere confronts the seeming pointlessness of the humanities amidst spectacularly negative future projections of environmental collapse. The vanitas paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries... more

    Location:
    Romanisches Seminar der Universität, Bibliothek
    Signature:
    RO/EC 1879 B914
    Inter-library loan:
    No loan of volumes, only paper copies will be sent

    Location:
    Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim
    Signature:
    500 EC 1879 B914
    Inter-library loan:
    No inter-library loan

     

    "In this experimental work of ecocriticism, Vincent Bruyere confronts the seeming pointlessness of the humanities amidst spectacularly negative future projections of environmental collapse. The vanitas paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries dazzlingly depict heaps of riches alongside skulls, shells, and hourglasses. Sometimes even featuring the illusion that their canvases are peeling away, vanitas images openly declare their own pointlessness in relation to the future. This book takes inspiration from the vanitas tradition to fearlessly contemplate the stakes of the humanities in the Anthropocene present, when the accumulated human record could well outlast the climate conditions for our survival. Staging a series of unsettling encounters with early modern texts and images whose claims of relevance have long since expired, Bruyere experiments with the interpretive affordances of allegory and fairytale, still life and travelogues. Each chapter places a vanitas motif - canvas, debris, toxics, paper, ark, meat, and light - in conversation with stories and images of the Anthropocene, from the Pleistocene Park geoengineering project to toxic legacies to in-vitro meat. Considering questions of quiet erasure and environmental memory, this book argues we ought to keep reading even by the flickering light of extinction"

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781503638631; 9781503630505
    RVK Categories: EC 1879 ; LH 81280
    Subjects: Ecocriticism; Vanitas (Art); Humanities
    Scope: vi, 170 Seiten, Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Notes:

    Bibliographie: Seite 151-164
  3. Environmental humanities on the brink
    the vanitas hypothesis
    Author: Bruyère, Vincent
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Stanford University Press, Stanford, California

    In this experimental work of ecocriticism, Vincent Bruyere confronts the seeming pointlessness of the humanities amidst spectacularly negative future projections of environmental collapse. The vanitas paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries... more

    Location:
    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Zentralbibliothek (ZB)
    Signature:
    91.443.87
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
    Title in the local catalogue:
    https://hds.hebis.de/ubffm/Record/HEB509865429

     

    In this experimental work of ecocriticism, Vincent Bruyere confronts the seeming pointlessness of the humanities amidst spectacularly negative future projections of environmental collapse. The vanitas paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries dazzlingly depict heaps of riches alongside skulls, shells, and hourglasses. Sometimes even featuring the illusion that their canvases are peeling away, vanitas images openly declare their own pointlessness in relation to the future. This book takes inspiration from the vanitas tradition to fearlessly contemplate the stakes of the humanities in the Anthropocene present, when the accumulated human record could well outlast the climate conditions for our survival. Staging a series of unsettling encounters with early modern texts and images whose claims of relevance have long since expired, Bruyere experiments with the interpretive affordances of allegory and fairytale, still life and travelogues. Each chapter places a vanitas motif - canvas, debris, toxics, paper, ark, meat, and light - in conversation with stories and images of the Anthropocene, from the Pleistocene Park geoengineering project to toxic legacies to in-vitro meat. Considering questions of quiet erasure and environmental memory, this book argues we ought to keep reading even by the flickering light of extinction.

     
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    Content information
    Source: Specialised Catalogue of Comparative Literature
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781503638631; 9781503630505; 1503630501
    RVK Categories: LH 81280
    Subjects: Geisteswissenschaften; Ecocriticism; Vanitas; Ecocriticism; Vanitas (Art); Humanities; Ecocriticism; Humanities; Vanitas (Art)
    Scope: vi, 170 Seiten, Illustrationen
    Notes:

    Literaturverzeichnis Seite 151-164