Richard Kerridge
Biographic Data
| ID | 4495512 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Kerridge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Kerridge |
| SIGNATURE | KERRIDGE R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Contemporary Fiction and Climate Uncertainty: Narrating Unstable Futures
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the University of Ghent. This book argues that storytelling is an important resource in coming to terms with the loss of the feeling of living a grounded existence where the future remains relatively stable and predictable. Faced with the specter of climate catastrophe, we lose confidence in the future-a w…
Imagining the Plains of Latin America: An Ecocritical Study
From the Pampas lowlands of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil to the Altiplano plateau that stretches between Chile and Peru, the plains of Latin America have haunted the literature and culture of the continent. Bringing these landscapes into focus as a major subject of Latin American culture, this book outlines innovative new ecocritcial readings of canonical literary texts from the 19th century to the present. Tracing these natural landscapes acros…
Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts
Drawing on the latest debates in ecocritical theory and sustainability studies, Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts outlines a new approach to the reading of literary texts. Hubert Zapf considers the ways in which literature operates as a form of cultural ecology, using language, imagination and critique to challenge and transform cultural narratives of humanity’s relationship to nature. In this way, the book demonstrates the import…
Ecocriticism and Italy: Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation
Written by one of Europe’s leading critics, Ecocriticism and Italy reads the diverse landscapes of Italy in the cultural imagination. From death in Venice as a literary trope and petrochemical curse, through the volcanoes of Naples to wine, food and environmental violence in Piedmont, Serenella Iovino explores Italy as a text where ecology and imagination meet. Examining texts where justice, society and politics interlace with stories of land and…
Ecocriticism and the Mission of â Englishâ
Ecocritical Approaches to Literary Form and Genre
This article examines the relationship among the issues of urgency, depth, provisionality, and temporality in ecocritical approaches to evaluating literary form and genre. It analyzes the criteria by which ecocritical judgments about texts are reached and suggests that ecocritics should evaluate texts from the viewpoint of environmental concern and be able to introduce environmental criteria into general cultural debate. It highlights the fact th…
Ecocriticism and the Mission of ‘English’
Environmentalism has been prominent in public culture since the early 1960s. The publication in 1962 of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring provides a start date; a moment when environmentalism as a cohesive and challenging set of concerns leapt into the news. In the years that followed, the political movement emerged, challenging established politics with a new set of interests and priorities. These keywords were added by machine and not by the author…
The Single Source
Key words: Solar, global warming, ecocriticism, mock-heroic, literary realism.In this article I read Ian McEwan's new novel Solar and reflect on what its inclusions and omissions tell us about present concerns and developing projects in ecocriticism. I assess the novel as a literary response to global warming, placing it in a tradition of mock-heroic representations of bodily desire and vulnerability that is ambivalent for ecocriticism. In this c…
Gothic Terms, Themes, Concepts and Contexts
Just as THE UNCANNY offers a connection to the structure of the unconscious, the abject offers a sensation of horror that connects us viscerally to the experience of repression and the process of subject formation. For Julia Kristeva, in Powers of Horror, abjection disturbs ‘identity, system, order’ and is characterised by ‘the in-between, the ambiguous, the composite’.
Writing the environment: Ecocriticism and Literature
The contemporary environmental crisis asks fundamental questions about culture. This first book draws together the rich variety of environmentalist positions, from ecofeminism to deep ecology, and theorizes their contribution to critical theory, literature and popular culture. The first part of the book examines theoretical controversies in environmentalist literary criticism. Contributors explore a wide variety of issues including sexual politic…
Ecocriticism and Italy: Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation
Written by one of Europe’s leading critics, Ecocriticism and Italy reads the diverse landscapes of Italy in the cultural imagination. From death in Venice as a literary trope and petrochemical curse, through the volcanoes of Naples to wine, food and environmental violence in Piedmont, Serenella Iovino explores Italy as a text where ecology and imagination meet. Examining texts where justice, society and politics interlace with stories of land and…
Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts
Drawing on the latest debates in ecocritical theory and sustainability studies, Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts outlines a new approach to the reading of literary texts. Hubert Zapf considers the ways in which literature operates as a form of cultural ecology, using language, imagination and critique to challenge and transform cultural narratives of humanity’s relationship to nature. In this way, the book demonstrates the import…
Contemporary Fiction and Climate Uncertainty: Narrating Unstable Futures
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the University of Ghent. This book argues that storytelling is an important resource in coming to terms with the loss of the feeling of living a grounded existence where the future remains relatively stable and predictable. Faced with the specter of climate catastrophe, we lose confidence in the future-a w…
The Single Source
Key words: Solar, global warming, ecocriticism, mock-heroic, literary realism.In this article I read Ian McEwan's new novel Solar and reflect on what its inclusions and omissions tell us about present concerns and developing projects in ecocriticism. I assess the novel as a literary response to global warming, placing it in a tradition of mock-heroic representations of bodily desire and vulnerability that is ambivalent for ecocriticism. In this c…
Writing the environment: Ecocriticism and Literature
The contemporary environmental crisis asks fundamental questions about culture. This first book draws together the rich variety of environmentalist positions, from ecofeminism to deep ecology, and theorizes their contribution to critical theory, literature and popular culture. The first part of the book examines theoretical controversies in environmentalist literary criticism. Contributors explore a wide variety of issues including sexual politic…
Gothic Terms, Themes, Concepts and Contexts
Just as THE UNCANNY offers a connection to the structure of the unconscious, the abject offers a sensation of horror that connects us viscerally to the experience of repression and the process of subject formation. For Julia Kristeva, in Powers of Horror, abjection disturbs ‘identity, system, order’ and is characterised by ‘the in-between, the ambiguous, the composite’.
The Single Source
Key words: Solar, global warming, ecocriticism, mock-heroic, literary realism.In this article I read Ian McEwan's new novel Solar and reflect on what its inclusions and omissions tell us about present concerns and developing projects in ecocriticism. I assess the novel as a literary response to global warming, placing it in a tradition of mock-heroic representations of bodily desire and vulnerability that is ambivalent for ecocriticism. In this c…
Ecocriticism and the Mission of ‘English’
Environmentalism has been prominent in public culture since the early 1960s. The publication in 1962 of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring provides a start date; a moment when environmentalism as a cohesive and challenging set of concerns leapt into the news. In the years that followed, the political movement emerged, challenging established politics with a new set of interests and priorities. These keywords were added by machine and not by the author…
Ecocritical Approaches to Literary Form and Genre
This article examines the relationship among the issues of urgency, depth, provisionality, and temporality in ecocritical approaches to evaluating literary form and genre. It analyzes the criteria by which ecocritical judgments about texts are reached and suggests that ecocritics should evaluate texts from the viewpoint of environmental concern and be able to introduce environmental criteria into general cultural debate. It highlights the fact th…
Ecocriticism and the Mission of â Englishâ
Ecocriticism and Italy: Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation
Written by one of Europe’s leading critics, Ecocriticism and Italy reads the diverse landscapes of Italy in the cultural imagination. From death in Venice as a literary trope and petrochemical curse, through the volcanoes of Naples to wine, food and environmental violence in Piedmont, Serenella Iovino explores Italy as a text where ecology and imagination meet. Examining texts where justice, society and politics interlace with stories of land and…
Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts
Drawing on the latest debates in ecocritical theory and sustainability studies, Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts outlines a new approach to the reading of literary texts. Hubert Zapf considers the ways in which literature operates as a form of cultural ecology, using language, imagination and critique to challenge and transform cultural narratives of humanity’s relationship to nature. In this way, the book demonstrates the import…
Imagining the Plains of Latin America: An Ecocritical Study
From the Pampas lowlands of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil to the Altiplano plateau that stretches between Chile and Peru, the plains of Latin America have haunted the literature and culture of the continent. Bringing these landscapes into focus as a major subject of Latin American culture, this book outlines innovative new ecocritcial readings of canonical literary texts from the 19th century to the present. Tracing these natural landscapes acros…
Contemporary Fiction and Climate Uncertainty: Narrating Unstable Futures
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the University of Ghent. This book argues that storytelling is an important resource in coming to terms with the loss of the feeling of living a grounded existence where the future remains relatively stable and predictable. Faced with the specter of climate catastrophe, we lose confidence in the future-a w…
Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (8 works) · Ecocriticism (7 works) · Environmental ethics (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · History (4 works)