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Author: Professor Hubert Zapf (University of Augsburg, Germany)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.617kg
ISBN: 9781474274654
ISBN 10: 147427465
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 21 April 2016
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College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Magisterial and sweeping, this book offers the first synthesis of major trends in ecocriticism from a European perspective. It integrates transdisciplinary approaches from German philosophy to contemporary Continental and Anglo-American theory, biosemiotics, and global policy studies. All these considerations are marshaled to support a compelling case for the transformative cultural agency and aesthetic force of literature as an ecological dimension of discourse that metonymically extends to all forms of life on earth. Literature as Cultural Ecology is necessary reading for anyone interested in environmental humanities. Louise Westling, Professor Emerita, Department of English, University of Oregon, USA In Literature as Cultural Ecology, Hubert Zapf brings his vast knowledge of world literature and literary theory to bear on many of the central concerns of environmental textual studies. This book not only reveals the intersections between cultural ecology and ecocriticism, but it profoundly and accessibly reinforces the significance of literature on a changing, wounded, beautiful planet. Scott Slovic, Professor of literature and environment at the University of Idaho, USA. Mentioned. The Chronicle of Higher Education
Magisterial and sweeping, this book offers the first synthesis of major trends in ecocriticism from a European perspective. It integrates transdisciplinary approaches from German philosophy to contemporary Continental and Anglo-American theory, biosemiotics, and global policy studies. All these considerations are marshaled to support a compelling case for the transformative cultural agency and aesthetic force of literature as an ecological dimension of discourse that metonymically extends to all forms of life on earth. Literature as Cultural Ecology is necessary reading for anyone interested in environmental humanities. Louise Westling, Professor Emerita, Department of English, University of Oregon, USA In Literature as Cultural Ecology, Hubert Zapf brings his vast knowledge of world literature and literary theory to bear on many of the central concerns of environmental textual studies. This book not only reveals the intersections between cultural ecology and ecocriticism, but it profoundly and accessibly reinforces the significance of literature on a changing, wounded, beautiful planet. Scott Slovic, Professor of literature and environment at the University of Idaho, USA.
Magisterial and sweeping, this book offers the first synthesis of major trends in ecocriticism from a European perspective. It integrates transdisciplinary approaches from German philosophy to contemporary Continental and Anglo-American theory, biosemiotics, and global policy studies. All these considerations are marshaled to support a compelling case for the transformative cultural agency and aesthetic force of literature as an ecological dimension of discourse that metonymically extends to all forms of life on earth. Literature as Cultural Ecology is necessary reading for anyone interested in environmental humanities. Louise Westling, Professor Emerita, Department of English, University of Oregon, USA In Literature as Cultural Ecology, Hubert Zapf brings his vast knowledge of world literature and literary theory to bear on many of the central concerns of environmental textual studies. This book not only reveals the intersections between cultural ecology and ecocriticism, but it profoundly and accessibly reinforces the significance of literature on a changing, wounded, beautiful planet. Scott Slovic, Professor of literature and environment at the University of Idaho, USA. Mentioned. The Chronicle of Higher Education Zapf (Univ. of Augsburg, Germany) brings a global perspective to ecocritical discourse by applying tenets of cultural ecology to a diverse selection of literary works. ... Combining the arts and the social and natural sciences, this new and imaginative approach covers fresh ground. --L. L. Johnson, Lewis & Clark College. Summing Up: Highly recommended. CHOICE
Author Information
Hubert Zapf is Professor and Chair of American Literature at the University of Augsburg, Germany. His recent books include, as co-editor, American Studies Today: New Research Agendas (2014) and English and American Studies: Theory and Practice (2012).
