Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies

Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism

Bibliographic Data

ID8100583
AuthorsCatrin Gersdorf (corresponding author), Sylvia Mayer
Year2006
Publication date2006-09-28
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueNature in Literary and Cultural Studies (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789401203555
OpenAlexW652308146
Open LibraryOL34873418M
ISBN9789401203555
LanguageEN
Citations received24

Catrin GERSDORF and Sylvia MAYER: Nature in literary and cultural studies: defining the subject of ecocriticism - an introduction Theorizing the nature of ecocriticism Louise WESTLING: Literature, the environment, and the question of the posthuman Hubert ZAPF: The state of ecocriticism and the function of literature as cultural ecology Christa GREWE-VOLPP: Nature out there and as social player: some basic consequences for a literary ecocritical analysis Simone Birgitt HARTMANN: Feminist and postcolonial perspectives on ecocriticism in a Canadian context: toward a 'situated' literary theory and practice of ecofeminism and environmental justice Sylvia MAYER: Literary studies, ecofeminism and environmentalist knowledge production in the humanities Locating nature in language, literature, and everday culture Beatrix BUSSE: (Historical) ecolinguistics and literary analysis Hannes BERGTHALLER: Trees are what everyone needs: The Lorax, anthropocentrism, and the problem of mimesis Ursula K. HEISE: Afterglow: Chernobyl and the everyday Christine GERHARDT: Syllabled to us for names: Native American echoes in Walt Whitman's green poetics Tonia L. PAYNE: We are dirt: we are earth: Ursula Le Guin and the problem of extraterrestrialism Christian Krug: Virtual tourism: the consumption of natural and digital environments Andrew A. LISTON: Gertrud Leutenegger's metanoic narrative Kontinent Nature, literature and the space of the national Irena RAGAISIENE: Nature/place, memory, and identity in the poetry of Lithuanian emigre Danute Paskeviciute Colin RIORDAN: German literature, nature and modernity before 1914 Caroline DELPH: Nature and nationalism in the writings of Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769-1860) Simon MEACHER: It was shown in the way they stepped in the woods: nature in Hermann Lons and Edward Thomas Katharine GRIFFITHS: The aesthetic appreciation of nature as a reaction to dictatorship: disjunction and dissidence in the Inner Emigration Axel GOODBODY: From egocentrism to ecocentrism: nature and morality in German writing in the 1980s Ethics of nature Patrick D. MURPHY: Grounding anotherness and answerability through allonational ecoliterature formations Thomas CLAVIEZ: Ecology as moral stand(s): environmental ethics, Western moral philosophy, and the problem of the Other Timo MARAN: Where do your borders lie? Reflections on the semiotical ethics of nature Notes on contributors Index

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