Frederick Buell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4772570 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frederick Buell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frederick |
| FAMILY NAME | Buell |
| SIGNATURE | BUELL F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Warwick |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Short History of Oil Cultures: Or, the Marriage of Catastrophe and Exuberance
In opposition to energy historian Vaclav Smil, who argues that “timeless literature ... show[s] no correlation with advances in energy consumption,” this essay makes the general claim that energy history is significantly entwined with cultural history. Energy history is in fact entwined with changing cultural conceptualizations and representations of psyche, body, society, and environment; it is correlated not just with changing material cultures…
Shadow and Tree
From Apocalypse to Way of Life: Environmental Crisis in the American Century
Preface - the decade of crisis. Section I Contesting crisis: the politics of denial taking crisis seriously? Section II Elaborating crisis - an introductory caution: natures in crisis part 1 - an inventory of the external world natures in crisis part 2 - deepening intimacies environmental crisis as social crisis crisis history - from prophecy to risk, from apocalypse to dwelling place. Section III Imagining crisis: the culture of hyperexuberence …
Nationalist Postnationalism: Globalist Discourse in Contemporary American Culture
Nationalist Postnationalism: Globalist Discourse in Contemporary American Culture Frederick Buell (bio) For some decades now, discourses of terminal lament and epochal change have multiplied. We have heard about the destruction of our common culture, the death of literature, and the end of nature; and we have been experiencing the social transformations wrought by such phenomena as disorganized capitalism, late capitalism, flexible accumulation, …
National culture and the new global system
World Studies for a Multicultural Era
Sylvia Plath's Traditionalism
Sylvia Plath's characterization of The Bell Jar as a potboiler is certainly too harsh; its sensationalism and its topicality, along with its thinly veiled autobiographical reference, have, however, contributed to a surprising delay in thorough critical appreciation of her finest poetry. Now that Letters Home has been published, the tendency to look at her work solely or primarily in terms of topical and autobiographical contexts will surely be re…
W. H. Auden as a Social Poet
Nationalist Postnationalism: Globalist Discourse in Contemporary American Culture
Nationalist Postnationalism: Globalist Discourse in Contemporary American Culture Frederick Buell (bio) For some decades now, discourses of terminal lament and epochal change have multiplied. We have heard about the destruction of our common culture, the death of literature, and the end of nature; and we have been experiencing the social transformations wrought by such phenomena as disorganized capitalism, late capitalism, flexible accumulation, …
A Short History of Oil Cultures: Or, the Marriage of Catastrophe and Exuberance
In opposition to energy historian Vaclav Smil, who argues that “timeless literature ... show[s] no correlation with advances in energy consumption,” this essay makes the general claim that energy history is significantly entwined with cultural history. Energy history is in fact entwined with changing cultural conceptualizations and representations of psyche, body, society, and environment; it is correlated not just with changing material cultures…
World Studies for a Multicultural Era
W. H. Auden as a Social Poet
Sylvia Plath's Traditionalism
Sylvia Plath's characterization of The Bell Jar as a potboiler is certainly too harsh; its sensationalism and its topicality, along with its thinly veiled autobiographical reference, have, however, contributed to a surprising delay in thorough critical appreciation of her finest poetry. Now that Letters Home has been published, the tendency to look at her work solely or primarily in terms of topical and autobiographical contexts will surely be re…
World Studies for a Multicultural Era
National culture and the new global system
Nationalist Postnationalism: Globalist Discourse in Contemporary American Culture
Nationalist Postnationalism: Globalist Discourse in Contemporary American Culture Frederick Buell (bio) For some decades now, discourses of terminal lament and epochal change have multiplied. We have heard about the destruction of our common culture, the death of literature, and the end of nature; and we have been experiencing the social transformations wrought by such phenomena as disorganized capitalism, late capitalism, flexible accumulation, …
From Apocalypse to Way of Life: Environmental Crisis in the American Century
Preface - the decade of crisis. Section I Contesting crisis: the politics of denial taking crisis seriously? Section II Elaborating crisis - an introductory caution: natures in crisis part 1 - an inventory of the external world natures in crisis part 2 - deepening intimacies environmental crisis as social crisis crisis history - from prophecy to risk, from apocalypse to dwelling place. Section III Imagining crisis: the culture of hyperexuberence …
Shadow and Tree
A Short History of Oil Cultures: Or, the Marriage of Catastrophe and Exuberance
In opposition to energy historian Vaclav Smil, who argues that “timeless literature ... show[s] no correlation with advances in energy consumption,” this essay makes the general claim that energy history is significantly entwined with cultural history. Energy history is in fact entwined with changing cultural conceptualizations and representations of psyche, body, society, and environment; it is correlated not just with changing material cultures…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Capitalism (2 works)