Titre : | The bioregional imagination : literature, ecology, and place |
Auteurs : | Tom Lynch, Editeur scientifique Cheryll Glotfelty, Editeur scientifique Karla Armbruster, Editeur scientifique Ezra Zeitler, Cartographe |
Editeur : | Athens (Georgia) : University of Georgia press |
Année de publication : | 2012 |
Présentation physique : | XIV, 438 p.ill., cartes |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-8203-3592-6 |
Autre ISBN/ISSN : | 9-780-8203-4171-2 |
Mots clés : |
Biorégionalisme -- Dans la littérature
Écologie -- Dans la littérature Écocritique |
Note générale : | Notes bibliogr. - Index |
Résumé : |
Bioregionalism is an innovative way of thinking about place and planet from an ecological perspective. Although bioregional ideas occur regularly in ecocritical writing, until now no systematic effort has been made to outline the principles of b[...]
Bioregionalism is an innovative way of thinking about place and planet from an ecological perspective. Although bioregional ideas occur regularly in ecocritical writing, until now no systematic effort has been made to outline the principles of bioregional literary criticism and to use it as a way to read, write, understand, and teach literature.
The twenty-four original essays here are written by an outstanding selection of international scholars. The range of bioregions covered is global and includes such diverse places as British Columbia's Meldrum Creek and Italy's Po River Valley, the Arctic and the Outback. There are even forays into cyberspace and outer space. In their comprehensive introduction, the editors map the terrain of the bioregional movement, including its history and potential to inspire and invigorate place-based and environmental literary criticism. Responding to bioregional tenets, this volume is divided into four sections. The essays in the "Reinhabiting" section narrate experiments in living-in-place and restoring damaged environments. The "Rereading" essays practice bioregional literary criticism, both by examining texts with strong ties to bioregional paradigms and by opening other, less-obvious texts to bioregional analysis. In "Reimagining," the essays push bioregionalism to evolve-by expanding its corpus of texts, coupling its perspectives with other approaches, or challenging its core constructs. Essays in the "Renewal" section address bioregional pedagogy, beginning with local habitat studies and concluding with musings about the Internet. In response to the environmental crisis, we must reimagine our relationship to the places we inhabit. This volume shows how literature and literary studies are fundamental tools to such a reimagining. Tom Lynch dwells in the tallgrass prairie of the central United States, arguably the most degraded and endangered biome on the planet. He is associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, where he specializes in ecocriticism and place- conscious approaches to literature. [...] Cheryll Glotfelty is professor of literature and environment and director of graduate studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she cofounded the literature and environment graduate program. [...] Karla Armbruster is professor of English at Webster University in St. Louis, where she teaches American literature, interdisciplinary humanities, and professional writing. [...] She is also a past president of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. [...] Contributors : Daniel Gustav Anderson, David Landis Barnhill, Wes Berry, Kyle Bladow, Ruth Blair, Norah Bowman- Broz, Pavel Cenkl, Laird Christensen, Christine Cusick, Jill Gatlin, Serenella Iovino, Erin James, Heather Kerr, John Lane, Kathryn Miles, Anne Milne, Laurie Ricou, Libby Robin, Kent C. Ryden, Mitchell Thomashow, Harry Vandervlist, Bart Welling, Rinda West, Chad Wriglesworth, Dan Wylie. [Présentation par le site internet de l'éditeur] |
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