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Ecocriticism on the edge : the anthropocene as a threshold concept. / Timothy Clark.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: : Zafaa Books & Distributors | : 313/56F,49A, Anand Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi.Publication details: , London : Bloomsbury Academic , 2015.Description: xi,218p. : 24cmISBN:
  • 9781472505736
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.933 CLA
Contents:
The anthropocene questions of definition Imaging and imagining the whole earth : the terrestrial as norm Emergent unreadability : rereading a lyric by Gary Snyder Scale framing Scale framing : a reading Postcolonial ecocriticism and de-humanizing reading : an Australian test case Anthropocene disorder Denial : a reading The tragedy that climate change is not 'interesting'
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."
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The anthropocene
questions of definition
Imaging and imagining the whole earth : the terrestrial as norm
Emergent unreadability : rereading a lyric by Gary Snyder
Scale framing
Scale framing : a reading
Postcolonial ecocriticism and de-humanizing reading : an Australian test case
Anthropocene disorder
Denial : a reading
The tragedy that climate change is not 'interesting'

"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."

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