Green Matters

Ecocultural Functions of Literature
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-40886-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 386 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Reihe: Nature, Culture and Literature

Green Matters offers a fascinating insight into the regenerative function of literature with regard to environmental concerns. Based on recent developments in ecocriticism, the book demonstrates how the aesthetic dimension of literary texts makes them a vital force in the struggle for sustainable futures. Applying this understanding to individual works from a number of different thematic fields, cultural contexts and literary genres, Green Matters presents novel approaches to the manifold ways in which literature can make a difference. While the first sections of the book highlight the transnational, the focus on Canada in the last section allows a more specific exploration of how themes, genres and literary forms develop their own manifestations within a national context. Through its unifying ecocultural focus and its variegated approaches, the volume is an essential contribution to contemporary environmental humanities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Löschnigg, Maria

Braunecker, Melanie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Umweltethik, Umweltphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Part 1: Introduction and Theoretical Frame

1Introduction to the Volume

Melanie Braunecker and Maria Löschnigg

2The Function of Literature in Environmental Discourses

Maria Löschnigg

3Literature and/as Cultural Ecology

Hubert Zapf

Part 2: Literature and the Environment: Past and Present

4Representing the Environment in Victorian, Modern, and Postcolonial Fictions: Three Maritime Canadian Novels

David Creelman

5‘On the Edge of Humanism’: Travel Writing at the Intersection of Environmental Concerns

Halia Koo

6James Joyce’s Ulysses: Vampires, ‘Fake News’, and the Approaching Global Environmental Hunger Crisis

Bonnie Roos

Part 3: New Approaches to Climate Fiction

7Cli-Fi – Genre of the Twenty-First Century? Narrative Strategies in Contemporary Climate Fiction and Film

Axel Goodbody

8Western American Cli-Fi: The Biosemiotics of Ecophrasis

Alex Hunt

9Allegory and Human Nature in Ian McEwan’s Solar

Johannes Wally

10Un/doing Climate Change in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book and Ellen van Neerven’s ‘Water’

Iva Polak

11Abject Permanence: Apocalyptic Narratives and the Horror of Persistence

Heather Duncan and Eleanor Gold

Part 4: Creative Criticism

12Imagination and the Eco-social Crisis (or: Why I Write Creative Non-fiction)

Julia Martin

13‘When we walked on the backs of fish’: A Writer’s Environmental Path in the Creation of Multi-dimensional Narratives

Marilyn Bowering

14The Multi-genre Multimedia Disjunctive Poetic Narrative Dream Text: ‘New Epic’ Attentions in Contemporary Canadian Experimental Writing

Di Brandt

Part 5: Special Focus: Canadian Contexts

15Native Knowledge Systems and the Cultural Ecology of Literature

Maria Löschnigg

16Climate Change Drama across Time and Space: Chantal Bilodeau’s Forward (2016)

Nassim Winnie Balestrini

17The Lure of Fast Money: Staging Fort McMurray

Melanie Braunecker

18carried away on the crest of a wave – A Play of Hope by David Yee

Albert Rau

19Where the Wild Things Are: The Role of Animals in Canadian Schoolbooks

Claire E. Smerdon

20Two Tragic Tales of Ursus canadensis: Animal Perspectives in Charles G.D. Roberts’ The Heart of the Ancient Wood and Antonine Maillet’s L’Oursiade

Konrad Gro

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Maria Löschnigg is Professor of English at the University of Graz, Austria. She has published monographs on Canadian literature and British drama, co-edited books on literature and migration, and on contemporary epistolary writing. Her articles focus on a wide range of fields, including ecocritical issues such as Canadian ecopoetry, Native ecologies and Nigerian petro-literature.

Melanie Braunecker is a PhD candidate at the Karl Franzens University of Graz, Austria, and a high school teacher of Latin and English in Klagenfurt, Austria. Her PhD project focuses on literary representations of Canada’s oil/tar sands.