The Future of Environmental Criticism Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination

by Buell, Lawrence

• ISBN13: 9781405124768
• ISBN10: 1405124768
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-19
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Written by one of the world's leading theorists in ecocriticism, this manifesto provides a critical summary of the ecocritical movement. A critical summary of the emerging discipline of "ecocriticism". Written by one of the world's leading theorists in ecocriticism. Traces the history of the ecocritical movement from its roots in the 1970s through to its diversification and proliferation today. Takes account of different ecocritical positions and directions. Describes major tensions within ecocriticism and addresses major criticisms of the movement. Looks to the future of ecocriticism, proposing that discourses of the environment should become a permanent part of literary and cultural studies.

Author Biography

Lawrence Buell is Professor of English at Harvard University. He is best known for his two previous books on environmental criticism, The Environmental Imagination (1995) and Writing for an Endangered World (2001). His book on Emerson (2003) was also widely admired.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

The Emergence of Environmental Criticism

The World, the Text, and the Ecocritic

Space, Place, and Imagination from Local to Global

The Ethics and Politics of Environmental Criticism

Environmental CriticismÆs Future

Glossary of Selected Terms

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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