Murphy, Patrick D., 1951-
Persuasive aesthetic ecocritical praxis : climate change, subsistence, and questionable futures / Patrick D. Murphy. - 1 online resource (215 pages) - Ecocritical theory and practice . - Ecocritical theory and practice. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Continuing the transversal ecocritical praxis project -- The question of aesthetic praxis: if literature and art are propaganda, what is ecocritical analysis? -- Back to concerns about the future: Susan Fenimore Cooper and rural hours -- Pessimism, optimism, human inertia and anthropogenic climate change -- Directing the weather, producing the climate -- Buying agriculture, selling starvation and the failure of business-as-usual in a dystopic future -- Viewing the far fields through an ecofeminist subsistence perspective in an age of land grabs -- From consumables to sustenance through an ecofeminist sufficiency reorientation -- Listening for a way out through a deep yearning for a resounding relationship -- The role of women and gender equality in creating ecotopia.
9781498514842 (e-book)
Ecocriticism.
American literature--History and criticism.
Ecology in literature.
Philosophy of nature in literature.
Ecofeminism in literature.
Electronic books.
PS169.E25 / M874 2015
810.9/36
Persuasive aesthetic ecocritical praxis : climate change, subsistence, and questionable futures / Patrick D. Murphy. - 1 online resource (215 pages) - Ecocritical theory and practice . - Ecocritical theory and practice. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Continuing the transversal ecocritical praxis project -- The question of aesthetic praxis: if literature and art are propaganda, what is ecocritical analysis? -- Back to concerns about the future: Susan Fenimore Cooper and rural hours -- Pessimism, optimism, human inertia and anthropogenic climate change -- Directing the weather, producing the climate -- Buying agriculture, selling starvation and the failure of business-as-usual in a dystopic future -- Viewing the far fields through an ecofeminist subsistence perspective in an age of land grabs -- From consumables to sustenance through an ecofeminist sufficiency reorientation -- Listening for a way out through a deep yearning for a resounding relationship -- The role of women and gender equality in creating ecotopia.
9781498514842 (e-book)
Ecocriticism.
American literature--History and criticism.
Ecology in literature.
Philosophy of nature in literature.
Ecofeminism in literature.
Electronic books.
PS169.E25 / M874 2015
810.9/36