الوصف: This book presents an innovative and imaginative reading of contemporary Australian literature in the context of unprecedented ecological crisis. The Australian continent has seen significant, rapid changes to its cultures and land-use from the impact of British colonial rule, yet there is a rich history of Indigenous land-ethics and cosmological thought. By using the age-old idea of ‘cosmos'—the order of the world—to foreground ideas of a good order and chaos, reciprocity and more-than-human agency, this book interrogates the Anthropocene in Australia, focusing on notions of colonisation, farming, mining, bioethics, technology, environmental justice and sovereignty. It offers ‘cosmological readings'of a diverse range of authors—Indigenous and non-Indigenous—as a challenge to the Anthropocene's decline-narrative. As a result, it reactivates ‘cosmos'as an ethical vision and a transculturally important counter-concept to the Anthropocene. Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell argues that the arts can help us envision radical cosmologies of being in and with the planet, and to address the very real social and environmental problems of our era. This book will be of particular interest to scholars and students of Ecocriticism, Environmental Humanities, and postcolonial, transcultural and Indigenous studies, with a primary focus on Australian, New Zealand, Oceanic and Pacific area studies.

المؤلفون: Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Human ecology and the humanities, Human ecology in literature, Australian literature--21st century--History and criticism, Ecocriticism, Cosmology in literature

تصنيفات: FICTION / Literary, NATURE / Ecology, NATURE / Essays, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature

الوصف: American ecopoetries of migration explore the conflicted relationships of mobile subjects to the nonhuman world and thus offer valuable environmental insight for our current age of mass mobility and global ecological crisis. In Ecopoetic Place-Making, Judith Rauscher analyzes the works of five contemporary American poets of migration, drawing from ecocriticism and mobility studies. The poets discussed in her study challenge exclusionary notions of place-attachment and engage in ecopoetic place-making from different perspectives of mobility, testifying to the potential of poetry as a means of conceptualizing alternative environmental imaginaries for our contemporary world on the move.

المؤلفون: Judith Rauscher

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Environmental policy in literature, Nature conservation in literature, American poetry--History and criticism, Environmental protection in literature

تصنيفات: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature

الوصف: The Insectile and the Deconstruction of the Non/Human defines, conceptualizes, and evaluates the insectile—pertaining to an entomological fascination—in relation to subject formation. The book is driven by a central dynamic between form and formlessness, further staging an investigation of the phenomenon of fascination using Lacanian psychoanalysis, suggesting that the psychodrama of subject formation plays itself out entomologically. The book's engagement with the insectile—its enactments, cultural dreamwork, fantasy transformations—‘in-forming'the so-called human subject undertakes a broader deconstruction of said subject and demonstrates the foundational but occluded role of the insectile in subject formation. It tracks the insectile across the archives of psychoanalysis, seventeenth century still life painting, novels from the nineteenth century to the present day, and post-1970s film. The Insectile and the Deconstruction of the Non/Human will be of interest for scholars, graduate students, and upper-level undergraduates in film studies, visual culture, popular culture, cultural and literary studies, comparative literature, and critical theory, offering the insectile as new category for theoretical thought.

المؤلفون: Fabienne Collignon

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Other (Philosophy) in literature, Insects--Symbolic aspects, Insects in literature, Other (Philosophy) in art, Insects in art

تصنيفات: LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, NATURE / Animals / Insects & Spiders, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis

الوصف: How can we learn to notice the signs of disability?We see indications of disability everywhere: yellow diamond-shaped “deaf person in area” road signs, the telltale shapes of hearing aids, or white-tipped canes sweeping across footpaths. But even though the signs are ubiquitous, Stephanie L. Kerschbaum argues that disability may still not be perceived due to a process she terms “dis-attention.”To tell better stories of disability, this multidisciplinary work turns to rhetoric, communications, sociology, and phenomenology to understand the processes by which the material world becomes sensory input that then passes through perceptual apparatuses to materialize phenomena—including disability. By adding perception to the understanding of disability's materialization, Kerschbaum significantly expands our understanding of disability, accounting for its fluctuations and transformations in the semiotics of everyday life.Drawing on a set of thirty-three research interviews focused on disabled faculty members'experiences with disability disclosure, as well as written narratives by disabled people, this book argues for the materiality of narrative, suggesting narratives as a means by which people enact boundaries around phenomena and determine their properties. Signs of Disability offers strategies and practices for challenging problematic and pervasive forms of “dis-attention” and proposes a new theoretical model for understanding disability in social, rhetorical, and material settings.

المؤلفون: Stephanie L. Kerschbaum

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: People with disabilities, Sociology of disability

تصنيفات: HEALTH & FITNESS / Hearing & Speech, MEDICAL / Essays, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature

الوصف: How can we learn to notice the signs of disability?We see indications of disability everywhere: yellow diamond-shaped “deaf person in area” road signs, the telltale shapes of hearing aids, or white-tipped canes sweeping across footpaths. But even though the signs are ubiquitous, Stephanie L. Kerschbaum argues that disability may still not be perceived due to a process she terms “dis-attention.”To tell better stories of disability, this multidisciplinary work turns to rhetoric, communications, sociology, and phenomenology to understand the processes by which the material world becomes sensory input that then passes through perceptual apparatuses to materialize phenomena—including disability. By adding perception to the understanding of disability's materialization, Kerschbaum significantly expands our understanding of disability, accounting for its fluctuations and transformations in the semiotics of everyday life.Drawing on a set of thirty-three research interviews focused on disabled faculty members'experiences with disability disclosure, as well as written narratives by disabled people, this book argues for the materiality of narrative, suggesting narratives as a means by which people enact boundaries around phenomena and determine their properties. Signs of Disability offers strategies and practices for challenging problematic and pervasive forms of “dis-attention” and proposes a new theoretical model for understanding disability in social, rhetorical, and material settings.

المؤلفون: Stephanie L. Kerschbaum

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Sociology of disability, People with disabilities

تصنيفات: HEALTH & FITNESS / Hearing & Speech, MEDICAL / Essays, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature

الوصف: Auf der Grundlage einer allgemeinen textphänomenologischen und -theoretischen Bestimmung des Phänomens einer poetica scientiae versucht die vorliegende Studie, mit Fokus auf der Literatur der Postmoderne und Gegenwart, zur Profilierung des ebenso strittigen wie konstruktiven Dialogs zwischen Literatur und Wissenschaften beizutragen. Ihrem Erkenntnisinteresse entsprechend gliedert sich die Untersuchung in drei Abschnitte: (I) Ein historisch-systematisch angelegter Grundlagenteil problematisiert die Leitdifferenz ‚Literatur‘ und ‚Wissenschaft‘ und erarbeitet sodann in dezidiert literarischer Perspektive das theoretische Fundament für eine Poetik und Hermeneutik der literarischen Transformation wissenschaftlicher Diskurse. Die Abschnitte (II) und (III) gliedern sich in eine Reihe von Fallstudien und widmen sich der literarischen Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Wissenschaftsgeschichtsschreibung (II) sowie der literarischen Epistemologie (III). Die Literatur erweist sich dabei nicht nur als passiver Speicher wissenschaftshistorischer Ereignisse und epistemologischer Theoreme, sondern übernimmt ihrerseits wissenschaftshistorische und -historiographische sowie epistemologische Funktionen, von denen auch die Wissenschaften profitieren können.

المؤلفون: Bernadette Malinowski

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Science in literature

تصنيفات: SCIENCE / Research & Methodology, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SCIENCE / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature

الوصف: The time has come for human cultures to seriously think, to severely conceptualize, and to earnestly fabulate about all the nonhuman critters we share our world with, and to consider how to strive for more ethical cohabitation. Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman and Posthuman in Literature and Culture tackles this severe matter within the framework of literary and cultural studies. The emphasis of the inquiry is on the various ways actual and fictional nonhumans are reconfigured in contemporary culture – although, as long as the domain of nonhumanity is carved in the negative space of humanity, addressing these issues will inevitably clamor for the reconfiguration of the human as well. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/reconfiguring-human-nonhuman-posthuman-literature-culture-sanna-karkulehto-aino-kaisa-koistinen-essi-varis/e/10.4324/9780429243042, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

المؤلفون: Sanna Karkulehto, Aino-Kaisa Koistinen, Essi Varis

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Humanism in literature, Agent (Philosophy) in literature, Biotechnology in literature, Technology in literature, Virtual reality in literature

تصنيفات: LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General

الوصف: With its new subtitle, Romance Literatures of the World, the book series mimesis presents an innovative and integral understanding of the Romance world and Romance Studies from the perspective of literary studies and cultural theory. It takes account of the fact that the fascinating development of Romance literatures and cultures both in Europe and beyond has set in motion worldwide dynamics which continue the great traditions of the Romance world and open up new horizons for them. mimesis works from a transareal understanding of Romance Studies which integrates Romance literatures and cultures both within and outside Europe and which transcends the national and disciplinary boundaries which often conceal the interactions between different traditions and developments in Europe and the Americas, in Africa and Asia. In the archipelago of Romance Studies, mimesis reveals how the representation of reality in the Romance literatures of the world opens the door to a multilingual cosmos of diverse logics.

المؤلفون: Thomas Klinkert, Gisèle Séginger

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: Literature--Translations--Congresses, Literature and science--Congresses, French literature--19th century--History and criticism--Congresses, Biology in literature--Congresses

تصنيفات: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, SCIENCE / Research & Methodology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature

الوصف: The study of pre-modern anthropology requires the close examination of the relationship between nature and human society, which has been both precarious and threatening as well as productive, soothing, inviting, and pleasurable. Much depends on the specific circumstances, as the works by philosophers, theologians, poets, artists, and medical practitioners have regularly demonstrated. It would not be good enough, as previous scholarship has commonly done, to examine simply what the various writers or artists had to say about nature. While modern scientists consider just the hard-core data of the objective world, cultural historians and literary scholars endeavor to comprehend the deeper meaning of the concept of nature presented by countless writers and artists. Only when we have a good grasp of the interactions between people and their natural environment, are we in a position to identify and interpret mental structures, social and economic relationships, medical and scientific concepts of human health, and the messages about all existence as depicted in major art works. In light of the current conditions threatening to bring upon us a global crisis, it matters centrally to take into consideration pre-modern discourses on nature and its enormous powers to understand the topoi and tropes determining the concepts through which we perceive nature. Nature thus proves to be a force far beyond all human comprehensibility, being both material and spiritual depending on our critical approaches.

المؤلفون: Albrecht Classen

نوع المادة: eBook.

تصنيفات: HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance, HISTORY / Modern / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature

الوصف: This book studies sugarcane monoculture, the dominant form of cultivation in the colonial Caribbean, in the later 1600s and 1700s up to the Haitian Revolution. Researching travel literature, plantation manuals, Georgic poetry, letters, and political proclamations, this book interprets texts by Richard Ligon, Henry Drax, James Grainger, Janet Schaw, and Toussaint Louverture.As the first extended investigation into its topic, this book reads colonial Caribbean monoculture as the conjunction of racial capitalism and agrarian capitalism in the tropics. Its eco-Marxist perspective highlights the dual exploitation of the soil and of enslaved agricultural producers under the plantation regime, thereby extending Marxist analysis to the early colonial Caribbean. By focusing on textual form (in literary and non-literary texts alike), this study discloses the bearing of monoculture on contemporary writers'thoughts. In the process, it emphasizes the significance of a literary tradition that, despite its ideological importance, is frequently neglected in (postcolonial) literary studies and the environmental humanities.Located at a crossroads of disciplines and perspectives, this study will be of interest to literary/cultural critics and historians working in the early Americas and in Atlantic studies, to students and scholars of agriculture, colonialism, and (racial) capitalism, to Marxists and postcolonial critics, and to those working in the environmental humanities and in Global South studies.

المؤلفون: Heinrich Wilke

نوع المادة: eBook.

الموضوعات: PN849.C3

تصنيفات: LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics