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German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene

2017-04-18 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2017-04-18
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Book Synopsis German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene by : Caroline Schaumann

Download or read book German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene written by Caroline Schaumann. This book was released on 2017-04-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Readings in the Anthropocene

2017-09-21 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2017-09-21
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Book Synopsis Readings in the Anthropocene by : Sabine Wilke

Download or read book Readings in the Anthropocene written by Sabine Wilke. This book was released on 2017-09-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readings in the Anthropocene brings together scholars from German Studies and beyond to interpret the German tradition of the last two hundred years from a perspective that is mindful of the challenge posed by the concept of the Anthropocene. This new age of man, unofficially pronounced in 2000, holds that humans are becoming a geological force in shaping the Earth's future. Among the biggest challenges facing our future are climate change, accelerated species loss, and a radical transformation of land use. What are the historical, philosophical, cultural, literary, and artistic responses to this new concept? The essays in this volume bring German culture to bear on what it means to live in the Anthropocene from a historical, ethical, and aesthetic perspective.

Ecological Thought in German Literature and Culture

2017-10-16 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2017-10-16
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Book Synopsis Ecological Thought in German Literature and Culture by : Gabriele Duerbeck

Download or read book Ecological Thought in German Literature and Culture written by Gabriele Duerbeck. This book was released on 2017-10-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume offers a survey of the contribution of German literature and culture to the evolution of ecological thought. As the field of ecocritical theory and practice is rapidly expanding towards transnational and global dimensions, it seems nevertheless necessary to consider the distinct manifestations of ecological thought in various cultures. In this sense, the volume demonstrates in twenty-six essays from different disciplines how German literature, philosophy, art, and science have contributed in unique ways to the emergence of ecological thought on national and transnational scale. The volume maps the most important and characteristic of these developments both on a theoretical and on a textual-analytical level. It is structured in five parts ranging from proto-ecological thought since early modern times (part I) to major theoretical approaches (part II), environmental history (part III), and ecocritical case studies (part IV), to ecological visions in different media and art forms (part V). The four editors have widely published and are actively involved in ecocritical literary and cultural studies. The group of editors consists of two scholars of German literature and cultural studies, Gabriele Duerbeck and Urte Stobbe (both University of Vechta), a scholar in German and comparative literature, Evi Zemanek (University of Freiburg), as well as a scholar of Anglo-American ecoliterature and ecocriticism, Hubert Zapf. All of them are involved in various projects and research networks on ecology and literature. The contributors of the individual chapters likewise are all experts in their respective fields, ranging from German literature, history, environmental studies, art history, music and art. The book is a unique and readily accessible collection of essays that is of relevance not only for a German and continental European but for a worldwide audience.

The Geological Unconscious

2020-07-07 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2020-07-07
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Book Synopsis The Geological Unconscious by : Jason Groves

Download or read book The Geological Unconscious written by Jason Groves. This book was released on 2020-07-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Already in the nineteenth century, German-language writers were contending with the challenge of imagining and accounting for a planet whose volatility bore little resemblance to the images of the Earth then in circulation. The Geological Unconscious traces the withdrawal of the lithosphere as a reliable setting, unobtrusive backdrop, and stable point of reference for literature written well before the current climate breakdown. Through a series of careful readings of romantic, realist, and modernist works by Tieck, Goethe, Stifter, Benjamin, and Brecht, Groves elaborates a geological unconscious—unthought and sometimes actively repressed geological knowledge—in European literature and environmental thought. This inhuman horizon of reading and interpretation offers a new literary history of the Anthropocene in a period before it was named. These close readings show the entanglement of the human and the lithic in periods well before the geological turn of contemporary cultural studies. In those depictions of human-mineral encounters, the minerality of the human and the minerality of the imagination become apparent. In registering libidinal investments in the lithosphere that extend beyond Carboniferous deposits and beyond any carbon imaginary, The Geological Unconscious points toward alternative relations with, and less destructive mobilizations of, the geologic.

The Value of Ecocriticism

2019-02-07 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2019-02-07
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Book Synopsis The Value of Ecocriticism by : Timothy Clark

Download or read book The Value of Ecocriticism written by Timothy Clark. This book was released on 2019-02-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a brief, incisive accessible overview of the fast-changing field of environmental literary criticism in an age of global environmental threat.

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