Ecocriticism on the edge : the anthropocene as a threshold concept /
"The twenty-first century has seen an increased awareness of the forms of environmental destruction that cannot immediately be seen, localized or, by some, even acknowledged. Ecocriticism on the Edge explores the possibility of a new mode of critical practice, one fully engaged with the destruc...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2015
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | "The twenty-first century has seen an increased awareness of the forms of environmental destruction that cannot immediately be seen, localized or, by some, even acknowledged. Ecocriticism on the Edge explores the possibility of a new mode of critical practice, one fully engaged with the destructive force of the planetary environmental crisis. Timothy Clark argues that, in literary and cultural criticism, the "Anthropocene", which names the epoch in which human impacts on the planet's ecological systems reach a dangerous limit, also represents a threshold at which modes of interpretation that once seemed sufficient or progressive become, in this new counterintuitive context, inadequate or even latently destructive. The book includes analyses of literary works, including texts by Paule Marshall, Gary Snyder, Ben Okri, Henry Lawson, Lorrie Moore and Raymond Carver."--Bloomsbury Publishing |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781472506702 1472506707 9781474246309 1474246303 9781474217484 1474217486 1472506480 9781472506481 1472505735 9781472505736 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed May 27, 2015). |
