Dana Phillips
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3625519 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Dana Phillips |
| PRENOMES | Dana |
| SOBRENOME | Phillips |
| ASSINATURA | PHILLIPS D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Towson University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 78 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Nature as Noir
This essay questions what relevance the genre of noir might play in the representation of today’s degraded environments. I argue that Nunn’s novels offer readers an important and startling alternative model of California to that suggested by the mythology of the Golden State—an idyllic paradise that provides its inhabitants with daily doses of sunshine, ocean breezes and avocado. In Nunn’s surf novels, California is a violent and unpleasant space…
Loosening the law’s bite
Faced, in the wake of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, with decisions that bear upon unfamiliar realms of social life, Canadian courts have turned to making factual determinations based on social science and other expert evidence. Such evidence can help litigants from marginalised groups to challenge exclusionary norms and ‘common sense’ assumptions that form part of judicial reasoning. However, litigants seeking to disrupt the legal …
Introduction
This special issue originates in a standing-room-only session devoted to Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 film Django Unchained at the 2013 meeting of the Western Literature Association in Berkeley. In the
Posthumanism, Environmental History, and Narratives of Collapse
Journal Article Posthumanism, Environmental History, and Narratives of Collapse Get access Dana Phillips Dana Phillips [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Volume 22, Issue 1, Winter 2015, Pages 63–79, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isv004 Published: 02 March 2015
Prismatic Ecology
As its title indicates, Prismatic Ecology: Ecotheory beyond Green attempts to shift environmental discourse away from an exclusive focus on all matters “green” to a broader spectrum of colors and concerns. Each of the volume's sixteen chapters addresses a different hue, and the contributors also examine a wider array of texts and materials—of entities, objects, and phenomena—than those perused in what they are perhaps too eager to identify as tra…
Mapping Common Ground
The emergence of the environmental humanities presents a unique opportunity for scholarship to tackle the human dimensions of the environmental crisis. It might finally allow such work to attain the critical mass it needs to break out of customary disciplinary confines and reach a wider public, at a time when natural scientists have begun to acknowledge that an understanding of the environmental crisis must include insights from the humanities an…
Introduction
The essays published here were originally solicited as contributions to a special issue of Safundi devoted to ecocriticism focused on South Africa, but also premised on the idea that environmental
Weeping Elephants, Sensitive Men
Making Nature Sacred
Book Review| September 01 2006 Making Nature Sacred: Literature, Religion, and Environment in America from the Puritans to the Present; Natural Life: Thoreau's Worldly Transcendentalism Dana Phillips Dana Phillips Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 648–650. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-042 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Ci…
Ecology Then and Now
Popularly, ecology is still associated with utopian values and concepts such as balance, harmony, and community, despite the fact that scientists no longer see these values and concepts as relevant to the natural world. The common misunderstanding of ecology is in part a reflection of the fact that ecology is still a relatively young science, one that focuses on the complexity of the natural world, which is something it cannot study successfully …
Expostulations and Replies
First-generation ecocriticism often originated in an epiphany, which tended to occur when desk-bound professors of literature suddenly rediscovered the natural world and found it not only refreshing, but also morally superior to, and more real than, texts and ideas. Ironically, this epiphany only led many of those who experienced it to feel a renewed concern with verbal representation, which soon emerged as a central issue in ecocriticism as many…
What Do Nature Writers Want?
This chapter offers a sustained discussion of American “nature writing” which in the narrow sense of the term refers to a nonfiction prose essay describing its author's efforts to establish an emotional connection with the natural world, efforts which as a rule are undertaken during an excursion into the wild. That so much “nature writing” follows this pattern suggests that it is conventional rather than wholly or even partially “natural”, as som…
The Science Wars, Ecology, and the Left
In the academy, the so-called Science Wars of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s were waged largely by those on the left who were interested in the theories and findings of the several disciplines in which historical, philosophical, political, and sociological science studies are pursued. These radical critics equated scientific knowledge with power, but made an exception for ecology, which they saw as utopian because they too readily accepted the popul…
A Word for Wildness
This epilogue reviews some of the issues of most importance in this book, especially those that have been raised but not yet resolved by ecocriticism. In particular, it explores the idea not of wilderness, a central value for many American ecocritics, but of “wildness” of calculated incivility, deliberate irony, imagination, adventurousness, playfulness, and picaresque humor as celebrated by Thoreau in his essay Walking and as exemplified in A. R…
Art for Earth's Sake
Ecocriticism in its early years was more appreciative than truly critical. It was hostile to literary theory, which it found overly skeptical and needlessly abstruse, and against which it urged a revival of literary realism. Ecocritics argued for the realism of verbal representation of the natural world, and called for nature writing (both poetry and prose) to be taken seriously as an art form, one with its own tradition of greatness, especially …
The Truth of Ecology
The Truth of Ecology is a wide-ranging, polemical appraisal of contemporary environmental thought. Focusing on the new field of ecocriticism from a thoroughly interdisciplinary perspective, this book explores topics as diverse as the history of ecology in the United States; the distortions of popular environmental thought; the influence of Critical Theory on radical science studies and radical ecology; the need for greater theoretical sophisticat…
Farther Afield in the Study of Nature-Oriented Literature
Book Review| March 01 2001 Farther Afield in the Study of Nature-Oriented Literature By Patrick D. Murphy. Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia. 2000. xviii, 254 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $18.50. Dana Phillips Dana Phillips Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 219–220. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-1-219 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions …
Sustainable Poetry
Book Review| June 01 2000 Sustainable Poetry: Four American Ecopoets By Leonard M. Scigaj. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky. 1999. xx, 311 pp.$34.95. Dana Phillips Dana Phillips Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 436–437. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-2-436 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Dana Phillips; Sustainable Poetry: Four American Eco…
Ecocriticism, Literary Theory, and the Truth of Ecology
Ecocriticism, Literary Theory, and the Truth of Ecology Dana Phillips (bio) I. Literary Theory and the Truth of Ecology In his classic 1975 essay "Travels in Hyperreality," Umberto Eco asks a question still waiting for a good answer after twenty-five years: "Where does the truth of ecology lie?" 1 The last word of this question can mean more than one thing; but its ambiguity is scarcely coincidental, and seems very much in the Eco spirit. That sp…
History and the Ugly Facts of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
Nineteenth-Century Racial Thought and Whitman's "Democratic Ethnology of the Future"
Nineteenth-Century Racial Thought and Whitman's "Democratic Ethnology of the Future"
Whitman's apparently positive depictions of racial others are intepreted in the light of his assumptions about biological indicators of racial identity and the role literature plays in recording that identity. Part one demonstrates that in the context of nineteenth-century racial thought a poem like "Salut au Monde!" seems directed less toward celebrating cultural diversity and more toward indicating the less-evolved status of other races compare…
Mapping Common Ground
The emergence of the environmental humanities presents a unique opportunity for scholarship to tackle the human dimensions of the environmental crisis. It might finally allow such work to attain the critical mass it needs to break out of customary disciplinary confines and reach a wider public, at a time when natural scientists have begun to acknowledge that an understanding of the environmental crisis must include insights from the humanities an…
The Truth of Ecology
The Truth of Ecology is a wide-ranging, polemical appraisal of contemporary environmental thought. Focusing on the new field of ecocriticism from a thoroughly interdisciplinary perspective, this book explores topics as diverse as the history of ecology in the United States; the distortions of popular environmental thought; the influence of Critical Theory on radical science studies and radical ecology; the need for greater theoretical sophisticat…
Ecocriticism, Literary Theory, and the Truth of Ecology
Ecocriticism, Literary Theory, and the Truth of Ecology Dana Phillips (bio) I. Literary Theory and the Truth of Ecology In his classic 1975 essay "Travels in Hyperreality," Umberto Eco asks a question still waiting for a good answer after twenty-five years: "Where does the truth of ecology lie?" 1 The last word of this question can mean more than one thing; but its ambiguity is scarcely coincidental, and seems very much in the Eco spirit. That sp…
Prismatic Ecology
As its title indicates, Prismatic Ecology: Ecotheory beyond Green attempts to shift environmental discourse away from an exclusive focus on all matters “green” to a broader spectrum of colors and concerns. Each of the volume's sixteen chapters addresses a different hue, and the contributors also examine a wider array of texts and materials—of entities, objects, and phenomena—than those perused in what they are perhaps too eager to identify as tra…
Posthumanism, Environmental History, and Narratives of Collapse
Journal Article Posthumanism, Environmental History, and Narratives of Collapse Get access Dana Phillips Dana Phillips [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Volume 22, Issue 1, Winter 2015, Pages 63–79, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isv004 Published: 02 March 2015
History and the Ugly Facts of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
Nineteenth-Century Racial Thought and Whitman's "Democratic Ethnology of the Future"
Nineteenth-Century Racial Thought and Whitman's "Democratic Ethnology of the Future"
Whitman's apparently positive depictions of racial others are intepreted in the light of his assumptions about biological indicators of racial identity and the role literature plays in recording that identity. Part one demonstrates that in the context of nineteenth-century racial thought a poem like "Salut au Monde!" seems directed less toward celebrating cultural diversity and more toward indicating the less-evolved status of other races compare…
History and the Ugly Facts of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
Ecocriticism, Literary Theory, and the Truth of Ecology
Ecocriticism, Literary Theory, and the Truth of Ecology Dana Phillips (bio) I. Literary Theory and the Truth of Ecology In his classic 1975 essay "Travels in Hyperreality," Umberto Eco asks a question still waiting for a good answer after twenty-five years: "Where does the truth of ecology lie?" 1 The last word of this question can mean more than one thing; but its ambiguity is scarcely coincidental, and seems very much in the Eco spirit. That sp…
Sustainable Poetry
Book Review| June 01 2000 Sustainable Poetry: Four American Ecopoets By Leonard M. Scigaj. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky. 1999. xx, 311 pp.$34.95. Dana Phillips Dana Phillips Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2000) 72 (2): 436–437. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-2-436 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Dana Phillips; Sustainable Poetry: Four American Eco…
Farther Afield in the Study of Nature-Oriented Literature
Book Review| March 01 2001 Farther Afield in the Study of Nature-Oriented Literature By Patrick D. Murphy. Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia. 2000. xviii, 254 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $18.50. Dana Phillips Dana Phillips Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 219–220. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-1-219 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions …
Ecology Then and Now
Popularly, ecology is still associated with utopian values and concepts such as balance, harmony, and community, despite the fact that scientists no longer see these values and concepts as relevant to the natural world. The common misunderstanding of ecology is in part a reflection of the fact that ecology is still a relatively young science, one that focuses on the complexity of the natural world, which is something it cannot study successfully …
Expostulations and Replies
First-generation ecocriticism often originated in an epiphany, which tended to occur when desk-bound professors of literature suddenly rediscovered the natural world and found it not only refreshing, but also morally superior to, and more real than, texts and ideas. Ironically, this epiphany only led many of those who experienced it to feel a renewed concern with verbal representation, which soon emerged as a central issue in ecocriticism as many…
What Do Nature Writers Want?
This chapter offers a sustained discussion of American “nature writing” which in the narrow sense of the term refers to a nonfiction prose essay describing its author's efforts to establish an emotional connection with the natural world, efforts which as a rule are undertaken during an excursion into the wild. That so much “nature writing” follows this pattern suggests that it is conventional rather than wholly or even partially “natural”, as som…
The Science Wars, Ecology, and the Left
In the academy, the so-called Science Wars of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s were waged largely by those on the left who were interested in the theories and findings of the several disciplines in which historical, philosophical, political, and sociological science studies are pursued. These radical critics equated scientific knowledge with power, but made an exception for ecology, which they saw as utopian because they too readily accepted the popul…
A Word for Wildness
This epilogue reviews some of the issues of most importance in this book, especially those that have been raised but not yet resolved by ecocriticism. In particular, it explores the idea not of wilderness, a central value for many American ecocritics, but of “wildness” of calculated incivility, deliberate irony, imagination, adventurousness, playfulness, and picaresque humor as celebrated by Thoreau in his essay Walking and as exemplified in A. R…
Art for Earth's Sake
Ecocriticism in its early years was more appreciative than truly critical. It was hostile to literary theory, which it found overly skeptical and needlessly abstruse, and against which it urged a revival of literary realism. Ecocritics argued for the realism of verbal representation of the natural world, and called for nature writing (both poetry and prose) to be taken seriously as an art form, one with its own tradition of greatness, especially …
The Truth of Ecology
The Truth of Ecology is a wide-ranging, polemical appraisal of contemporary environmental thought. Focusing on the new field of ecocriticism from a thoroughly interdisciplinary perspective, this book explores topics as diverse as the history of ecology in the United States; the distortions of popular environmental thought; the influence of Critical Theory on radical science studies and radical ecology; the need for greater theoretical sophisticat…
Making Nature Sacred
Book Review| September 01 2006 Making Nature Sacred: Literature, Religion, and Environment in America from the Puritans to the Present; Natural Life: Thoreau's Worldly Transcendentalism Dana Phillips Dana Phillips Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 648–650. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2006-042 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Ci…
Introduction
The essays published here were originally solicited as contributions to a special issue of Safundi devoted to ecocriticism focused on South Africa, but also premised on the idea that environmental
Weeping Elephants, Sensitive Men
Mapping Common Ground
The emergence of the environmental humanities presents a unique opportunity for scholarship to tackle the human dimensions of the environmental crisis. It might finally allow such work to attain the critical mass it needs to break out of customary disciplinary confines and reach a wider public, at a time when natural scientists have begun to acknowledge that an understanding of the environmental crisis must include insights from the humanities an…
Introduction
This special issue originates in a standing-room-only session devoted to Quentin Tarantino’s 2012 film Django Unchained at the 2013 meeting of the Western Literature Association in Berkeley. In the
Posthumanism, Environmental History, and Narratives of Collapse
Journal Article Posthumanism, Environmental History, and Narratives of Collapse Get access Dana Phillips Dana Phillips [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Volume 22, Issue 1, Winter 2015, Pages 63–79, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isv004 Published: 02 March 2015
Prismatic Ecology
As its title indicates, Prismatic Ecology: Ecotheory beyond Green attempts to shift environmental discourse away from an exclusive focus on all matters “green” to a broader spectrum of colors and concerns. Each of the volume's sixteen chapters addresses a different hue, and the contributors also examine a wider array of texts and materials—of entities, objects, and phenomena—than those perused in what they are perhaps too eager to identify as tra…
Loosening the law’s bite
Faced, in the wake of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, with decisions that bear upon unfamiliar realms of social life, Canadian courts have turned to making factual determinations based on social science and other expert evidence. Such evidence can help litigants from marginalised groups to challenge exclusionary norms and ‘common sense’ assumptions that form part of judicial reasoning. However, litigants seeking to disrupt the legal …
Nature as Noir
This essay questions what relevance the genre of noir might play in the representation of today’s degraded environments. I argue that Nunn’s novels offer readers an important and startling alternative model of California to that suggested by the mythology of the Golden State—an idyllic paradise that provides its inhabitants with daily doses of sunshine, ocean breezes and avocado. In Nunn’s surf novels, California is a violent and unpleasant space…
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