Dark Nature by David Larocca
Focusing on the concept of dark ecology and its invitation to add an anti-pastoral perspective to ecocriticism, this collection of essays on American literature and culture offers examples of how a vision of nature's darker side can create a fuller understanding of humanity's relation to nature.-
The Green Thread
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Ecopoetics of Reenchantment
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Monstrous Women and Ecofeminism in the Victorian Gothic, 1837–1871
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Modernism and the Anthropocene
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Creative Responses to Environmental Crises in Nordic Art and Literature
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Environmental Justice in Ethnic American Literature
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Ecotheology in the Humanities
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The Animal Other in Narratives of Conquest
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Confronting Climate Crises through Education
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Gender and Environment in Science Fiction
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Environment and Pedagogy in Higher Education
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The End of the Anthropocene
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Avian Aesthetics in Literature and Culture
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Environmental Postcolonialism
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Avenging Nature
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An Island in the Stream
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The Ecopolitics of Consumption
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Ecocriticism of the Global South
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Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene
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Narratives of Environmental Challenges in Brazil and India
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Romantic Ecocriticism
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Masculinity and Place in American Literature since 1950
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Ecopoetics and the Global Landscape
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Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction
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Transversal Ecocritical Praxis
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Water in Medieval Literature
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Ecocriticism in Taiwan
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Coexistentialism and the Unbearable Intimacy of Ecological Emergency
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Ecological Crisis and Cultural Representation in Latin America
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Victorian Ecocriticism
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Towards the River's Mouth (Verso la foce), by Gianni Celati
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Bhopal's Ecological Gothic
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The Mythology of the Animal Farm in Children's Literature
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New International Voices in Ecocriticism
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Ecocritical Approaches to Literature in French
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Ecofeminism in Dialogue
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Seeing Animals after Derrida
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Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature
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The Human-Animal Boundary
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Shamanism in the Contemporary Novel
Dark Nature [is a] signicant [contribution] to the existing scholarship on ecology and nature, for [it] explore[s] what we tend to characterize as the horrors of the natural world that, in turn, are impossible to neglect today, when the planet’s climate is changing so drastically[This book] prove[s] the necessity of ecocriticism to concentrate on nature’s darkness, and not just on its pastoralism. Only having fully understood nature as both light and dark, welcoming and abhorring, comforting and punishing, humanity will be able to conceive of its own role in the natural world and view the environment as a living and constantly changing organism. . . Dark Nature will thus be of interest to scholars and students in environmental humanities as well as to general audiences who want to understand the duality of nature and why it is so important to know about and accept nature’s darkness. * Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture *
Building on Timothy Morton’s concept of 'dark ecology,' Richard Schneider, a leading Thoreau scholar, has assembled a wide-ranging collection of essays that explore an American literary tradition of disturbing, sinister, and fearful encounters with nature. These 'anti-pastoral' writings provide new perspectives on the continually expanding discourse of ecocriticism. -- David M. Robinson, Oregon State University, Author of Natural Life: Thoreau's Worldly Transcendentalism
Offering smart treatments of nature’s disinterest, disease, and horrors, these canon-busting essays on both historical and contemporary print and non-print media jolt ecocriticism away from any remaining tendency to rest in pastoral idealism. -- Rochelle Johnson, College of Idaho
Building on Timothy Morton’s concept of 'dark ecology,' Richard Schneider, a leading Thoreau scholar, has assembled a wide-ranging collection of essays that explore an American literary tradition of disturbing, sinister, and fearful encounters with nature. These 'anti-pastoral' writings provide new perspectives on the continually expanding discourse of ecocriticism. -- David M. Robinson, Oregon State University, Author of Natural Life: Thoreau's Worldly Transcendentalism
Offering smart treatments of nature’s disinterest, disease, and horrors, these canon-busting essays on both historical and contemporary print and non-print media jolt ecocriticism away from any remaining tendency to rest in pastoral idealism. -- Rochelle Johnson, College of Idaho
Richard J. Schneider is professor emeritus of English at Wartburg College
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| ISBN 13 | 9781498528139 |
| ISBN 10 | 1498528139 |
| Title | Dark Nature |
| Author | Richard Schneider |
| Series | Ecocritical Theory And Practice |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Year published | 2018-11-06 |
| Number of pages | 290 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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