Dark Nature (eBook, ePUB)

Anti-Pastoral Essays in American Literature and Culture
Redaktion: Schneider, Richard

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In The Ecological Thought, eco-philosopher Timothy Morton has argued for the inclusion of "dark ecology" in our thinking about nature. Dark ecology, he argues, puts hesitation, uncertainty, irony, and thoughtfulness back into ecological thinking." The ecological thought, he says, should include "negativity and irony, ugliness and horror." Focusing on this concept of "dark ecology" and its invitation to add an anti-pastoral perspective to ecocriticism, this collection of essays on American literature and culture offers examples of how a vision of nature's darker side can create a fuller understanding of humanity's relation to nature. Included are essays on canonical American literature, on new voices in American literature, and on non-print American media. This is the first collection of essays applying the "dark ecology" principle to American literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498528122
• Artikelnr.: 47043816

Autorenporträt

Edited by Richard Schneider - Contributions by Frederico Bellini; Gina Claywell; Jesse Curran; Sarah Daw; Monika M. Elbert; Isabel Galleymore; Mark Henderson; Joseph Heumann; Elizabeth Kubek; David LaRocca; Matthew Masucci; T. Mera Moore Lafferty; Robin M

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Richard J. Schneider, "Introduction" Dark Nature and the
American Canon 1.Gina Claywell, "'Famine is a Frightful Monster':
Constructing Nature in Colonial Road Trips by Sarah Kemble Knight and
William Byrd II" 2.Elizabeth Kubek, "'Passage into New Forms': The Negative
Ecologies of Charles Brockden Brown" 3.Mark Henderson, "Dutchmen on the
Brink: The Ghost Ship as Avatar of Dark (American) Nature in Poe's 'MS.
Found in a Bottle.'" 4.Jesse Curran, "Thoreau's Week and the Work of the
Eco-lament" 5.Frederico Bellini, "The Gnostic Dark Side of Nature in Herman
Melville and Cormac McCarthy: Carrying the Fire out of Arcadia" 6.Jennifer
Schell, "Fiendish Fumaroles and Malevolent Mud Pots: The EcoGothic Aspects
of Owen Wister's Yellowstone Stories" 7.Monika M. Elbert, "Frontiersmen,
Robber Barons, Architects, and the Darkening Aesthetics of Nature in Willa
Cather's A Lost Lady" Dark Nature and New Voices 8.Richard J. Schneider,
"The Dark Side of Two Nature Writing Genres: Nature Noir and Wisconsin
Death Trip" 9. Sarah Daw, "The 'dark ecology' of the Bomb: Writing the
Nuclear as a part of 'Nature' in Cold War American Literature" 10. T. Mera
Moore Lafferty, "The Poetry of Adele Ne Jame: Dark Nature, Cosmic Justice,
and the Communion of Paradoxology" 11. Rachel Paparone, "Anti-pastoral
Imagery and the Search for Cajun Identity" 12. Dana Prodoehl, "(Dark)
Nature and Masculinity: The Anti-Pastoralism of Benjamin Percy's The
Wilding" 13. Matthew Masucci, "Hyperobjects, Plant Entelechy, and the
Horror of Eco-Colonization in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy" 14.
Isabel Galleymore, "'what's the world but shine//and seem': 'Radical
Kitsch' and Mark Doty's Environmental Poetics" Dark Nature and the Media
15. Anette Vandsoe, "Listening to the Dark Side of Nature" 16. Robin Murray
and Joseph Heumann, "Eco-Horror Cinematic Techniques in Television Nature
Documentaries: Monsters Inside Me and the Dark Side of Nature" 17. David
LaRocca, "Hunger in the Heart of Nature: Werner Herzog's Anti-Sentimental
Dispatches from the American Wilderness (Reflections on Grizzly Man)"