Schaumann / Sullivan German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-137-54222-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 346 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment

This book offers essays on both canonical and non-canonical German-language texts and films, advancing ecocritical models for German Studies, and introducing environmental issues in German literature and film to a broader audience. This volume contextualizes the broad-ranging topics and authors in terms of the Anthropocene, beginning with Goethe and the Romantics and extending into twenty-first-century literature and film. Addressing the growing need for environmental awareness in an international humanities curriculum, this book complements ecocritical analyses emerging from North American and British studies with a specifically German Studies perspective, opening the door to a transnational understanding of how the environment plays an integral role in cultural, political, and economic issues.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schaumann, Caroline

Sullivan, Heather I.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

.-1 The Dark Pastoral: A Trope for the Anthropocene.-2 Goethe’s Faust and the Ecolinguistics of .-3 Adalbert Stifter’s Alternative Anthropocene: Reimagining Social Nature in Brigitta and Abdias.-4 The Senses of Slovenia: Peter Handke, Stanley Cavell, and the Environmental Ethics of Repetition.-5 “Mines aren’t really like that": German Romantic Undergrounds Revisited.-6 (Bad) Air and (Faulty) Inspiration: Elemental and Environmental Influences on Fontane.-7 Hunger Artists and other Performers: Food and Consumption as Poetic Practice.-8 Speaking Stones: Material Agency and Interaction in Hans-Christian Enzensberger’s Geschichte der Natur.-9 When Nature Strikes Back – The Inconvenient Apocalypse in Franz Hohler’s Der Neue Berg.-10 National Invective and Environmental Exploitation in Thomas Bernhard’s Frost.-11 German Film Ventures into the Amazon: From Fitzcarraldo to Fuck for Forest.-12 Assessing How We Assess Risk: KathrinRöggla’s Documentary Film The Mobile Future.- Writing After Nature: A Sebaldian Ecopoetics.-14 Telling the Story of Climate Change: The German Novel in the Anthropocene.-15 The Anthropocene in Contemporary German Ecothrillers

Über Autor(innen)

Caroline Schaumann is Associate Professor of German Studies at Emory University, USA. She is the author of Memory Matters: Generational Responses to Germany’s Nazi Past in Recent Women’s Literature and co-editor of Heights of Reflection: Mountains in the German Imagination from the Middle Ages to Twenty-First Century. Heather I. Sullivan isProfessor of German and Comparative Literature at Trinity University, Texas, USA. She co-edited The Early History of Embodied Cognition, has been a contributing editor to publications such as New German Critique, Colloquia Germanica, and ISLE, and is author of The Intercontextuality of Self and Nature in Ludwig Tieck’s Early Works.