The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination (Blackwell Manifestos) | 
 enlarge | Author: Lawrence Buell
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Pages: 208
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ISBN: 1405124768
Dewey Decimal Number: 809.933556
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Product Description
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.
Book Description
This manifesto summarizes the disparate critical practices that constitute "ecocriticism." Lawrence Buell, one of the world's leading theorists in ecocriticism, traces the ecocritical movement back to its roots in the 1970s, through its coalescence into a recognizable entity in the early 1990s, to its diversification and proliferation today. He shows how, from an initial focus on such genres as nature writing and nature poetry, ecocriticism has come to take all of literary history and discourse as its arena; and he addresses questions currently facing the discipline, such as: Why has the interest in environmental literary and cultural studied so quickly increased? Can the nature-preservation emphasis of first-wave ecocriticism be reconciled with second-wave concerns with issues of environmental justice? What is the meaning of "place" in a globalizing world? And how do aesthetic, ethical, and political concerns interact and collide in ecocritical work? Finally, Buell looks to the future of ecocriticism, predicting that discourses of the environment will become a permanent part of literary and cultural studies.
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A positive-themed manifesto of means to balance differing agendas into a more unified, and therefore stronger movement February 6, 2006
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The Future Of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis And Literary Imagination is a scholarly summary of the distinct critical practices that constitute "ecocriticism" today. Written by one of the world's leading theorists, who traces the ecocritical movement to its roots in the 1970's and its coalescence in the 1990's, The Future Of Environmental Criticism Asks such bold questions as: Why has interest in environmental literary and cultural studies risen so rapidly in recent times? Can the emphasis upon preserving nature of earlier ecocriticism be successfully reconciled with later ecocritical issues of environmental justice? The Future Of Environmental Criticism draws from past and present reality to predict the directions in which future ecocritical movements will flow, and offers a positive-themed manifesto of means to balance differing agendas into a more unified, and therefore stronger movement.
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