Andrew Kalaidjian

Exhausted Ecologies (eBook, PDF)

Modernism and Environmental Recovery

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Modern literature and environmentalism combined ecology, psychology, and aesthetics to restore communal well-being to the United Kingdom after world war.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108801553
• Artikelnr.: 70913067

Autorenporträt

Andrew Kalaidjian is Assistant Professor of English at California State University, Dominguez Hills. He received his Ph.D. in English from University of California, Santa Barbara and his BA from Columbia University. A former University of California Graduate Fellow in Humanities, he is the recipient of the Seymour Brick Prize for Playwriting, the Albert and Elaine Borchard Fellowship for European Research, and the Richard Helgerson Graduate Student Achievement Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: places of rest
1. Nature's reserves: rural exhaustion, inertia, and generative aesthetics
2. Urban environs: James Joyce and the politics of shared atmosphere
3. Waste lands: dark pastoral in T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, and Djuna Barnes
4. Uprooting empire: Jean Rhys and unrest in imperial centers
5. Decolonizing ecology: Chinua Achebe's new forms of unease
Conclusion: the limits of modernist regeneration.