{"product_id":"affective-ecocriticism-9781496207562","title":"Affective Ecocriticism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAffective Ecocriticism: Emotion, Embodiment, Environment\u003c\/i\u003e imagines fresh critical responses to the problem of altered landscapes and the human costs of ongoing environmental trauma. . . . It asks us to imagine a broader spectrum of emotional possibility and to reevaluate those feelings already in our activist toolkit.\"—William V. Lombardi, \u003ci\u003eEnvironmental History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Beyond critiquing the cultural logic of a human-dominated geologic interval and all that comes with it, the environmental humanities can offer a clearer sense of the Anthropocene’s ecological affects. In articulating scholarly versions of such emotional attunements, \u003ci\u003eAffective Ecocriticism\u003c\/i\u003e represents an exciting, ground-breaking vision of how such a project might proceed.\"—Andrew Ross, \u003ci\u003eISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"These essays, diverse in method, topic, and style, show that an affective ecocriticism offers numerous tools for understanding our present moment and imagining new futures.\"—Shelby Brewster, H-Environment\u003cbr\u003e\"This volume provides a refreshingly sophisticated approach for integrating the interdisciplinary field of affect theory with ecocritical analysis.\"—Patrick D. Murphy, \u003ci\u003eWestern American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAffective Ecocriticism\u003c\/i\u003e cements the importance of affect—and not only data or narrative—to understanding current environmental crises and relations. It also posits how affect bears on acting on these crises (or not) and pivoting our relations. That is, the essays here aren’t merely descriptive or diagnostic; they also look to possibilities for response.”—Heather Houser, associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin and author of \u003ci\u003eEcosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Affect theory and ecocriticism are both already vibrant fields of inquiry, but \u003ci\u003eAffective Ecocriticism\u003c\/i\u003e makes a strong case for their inherent compatibility. This field-defining book demonstrates the deeper ground that both of these approaches might find were they to understand the basic fact of their shared concerns, methods, and aims.”—Rachel Greenwald Smith, associate professor of English at Saint Louis University and author of \u003ci\u003eAffect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations    \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003e Toward an Affective Ecocriticism: Placing Feeling in the Anthropocene    \u003cbr\u003e Kyle Bladow and Jennifer Ladino\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Theoretical Foundations\u003cbr\u003e 1. “what do we do but keep breathing as best we can this \/ minute atmosphere”: Juliana Spahr and Anthropocene Anxiety    \u003cbr\u003e Nicole M. Merola\u003cbr\u003e 2. From Nostalgic Longing to Solastalgic Distress: A Cognitive Approach to Love in the Anthropocene    \u003cbr\u003e Alexa Weik von Mossner\u003cbr\u003e 3. A New Gentleness: Affective Ficto-Regionality    \u003cbr\u003e Neil Campbell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. Affective Attachments: Land, Bodies, Justice\u003cbr\u003e 4. Feeling the Fires of Climate Change: Land Affect in Canada’s Tar Sands    \u003cbr\u003e Jobb Arnold\u003cbr\u003e 5. Wendell Berry and the Affective Turn    \u003cbr\u003e William Major\u003cbr\u003e 6. A Hunger for Words: Food Affects and Embodied Ideology    \u003cbr\u003e Tom Hertweck\u003cbr\u003e 7. Uncanny Homesickness and War: Loss of Affect, Loss of Place, and Reworlding in Redeployment    \u003cbr\u003e Ryan Hediger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 3. Animality: Feeling Species and Boundaries\u003cbr\u003e 8. Desiring Species with Darwin and Freud    \u003cbr\u003e Robert Azzarello\u003cbr\u003e 9. Tragedy, Ecophobia, and Animality in the Anthropocene    \u003cbr\u003e Brian Deyo\u003cbr\u003e 10. Futurity without Optimism: Detaching from Anthropocentrism and Grieving Our Fathers in Beasts of the Southern Wild    \u003cbr\u003e Allyse Knox-Russell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 4. Environmentalist Killjoys: Politics and Pedagogy\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Queerness of Environmental Affect    \u003cbr\u003e Nicole Seymour\u003cbr\u003e 12. Feeling Let Down: Affect, Environmentalism, and the Power of Negative Thinking    \u003cbr\u003e Lisa Ottum\u003cbr\u003e 13. Feeling Depleted: Ecocinema and the Atmospherics of Affect    \u003cbr\u003e Graig Uhlin\u003cbr\u003e 14. Coming of Age at the End of the World: The Affective Arc of Undergraduate Environmental Studies Curricula    \u003cbr\u003e Sarah Jaquette Ray\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors    \u003cbr\u003e Index    \u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409221689687,"sku":"9781496207562","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496207562.jpg?v=1730506012","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/affective-ecocriticism-9781496207562","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}