{"product_id":"blue-ecocriticism-and-the-oceanic-imperative-9781138315273","title":"Blue Ecocriticism and the Oceanic Imperative","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book initiates a conversation about blue ecocriticism: critical, ethical, cultural, and political positions that emerge from oceanic or aquatic frames of mind rather than traditional land-based approaches. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEcocriticism has rapidly become not only a disciplinary legitimate critical form but also one of the most dynamic, active criticisms to emerge in recent times. However, even in its institutional success, ecocriticism has exemplified an ocean deficit. That is, ecocriticism has thus far primarily been a land-based criticism stranded on a liquid planet. \u003ci\u003eBlue Ecocriticism and the Oceanic Imperative\u003c\/i\u003e contributes to efforts to overcome ecocriticism's ocean-deficit. The chapters explore a vast archive of oceanic literature, visual art, television and film, games, theory, and criticism. By examining the relationships between these representations of ocean and cultural imaginaries, \u003ci\u003eBlue Ecocriticism\u003c\/i\u003e works to unmoor ecocriticism from its land-based anchors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eBlue Ecocriticism and the Oceanic Imperative\u003c\/em\u003e calls for ecocriticism to take to the sea, offering an indispensable guide to navigating between the many disciplinary and methodological currents arising in the blue humanities. The scope of the book, alone, is impressive--Dobrin assembles a vast archive of oceanic literature, visual art, television and film, games, theory and criticism, making this an invaluable resource and potent provocation for the environmental humanities, animal studies, and the emerging blue humanities.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e – \u003ci\u003eDr. Stacy Alaimo, Professor of English, Environmental Studies Core Faculty Member, University of Oregon, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"As Ishmael might’ve said, it is the easiest thing in the world for a book to look as if it had a great secret in it. ‘Blue Ecocriticism’ actually does: its expansive, sophisticated and entertaining account of Ocean as a dominant, threatened material-semiotic actor on Earth offers a digestible remedy for ecocritics’ ‘ocean deficit disorder.’ Be it eco-cosmopolitanism, oceanography or Object Oriented Ontology, Dobrin knows the ropes.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e – \u003ci\u003eGreg Garrard, Professor of Environmental Humanities, Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies, Canada \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith the publication of \u003ci\u003eBlue Ecocriticism and the Oceanic Imperative\u003c\/i\u003e Sid Dobrin takes the stage of humanistic scholarship on the marine environment with a highly engaging introduction to the changing conditions and conceptions of the human relationship to the world’s oceans. Dobrin’s impassioned and insightful work ups the ante for current ecocritical scholarship by calling for (and demonstrating) an oceanic commitment that is both intellectual and personal as well as local, global, and ongoing. By going \u003ci\u003eall in\u003c\/i\u003e with his oceanic scholarship, Dobrin demonstrates why the rest of us should, too.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e – \u003ci\u003eDaniel Brayton, Julian W. Abernethy Chair of Literature, Director, Environmental Studies Program, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eBlue Ecocriticism and the Oceanic Imperative\u003c\/em\u003e calls for ecocriticism to take to the sea, offering an indispensable guide to navigating between the many disciplinary and methodological currents arising in the blue humanities. The scope of the book, alone, is impressive--Dobrin assembles a vast archive of oceanic literature, visual art, television and film, games, theory and criticism, making this an invaluable resource and potent provocation for the environmental humanities, animal studies, and the emerging blue humanities.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e – \u003ci\u003eDr. Stacy Alaimo, Professor of English, Environmental Studies Core Faculty Member, University of Oregon, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"As Ishmael might’ve said, it is the easiest thing in the world for a book to look as if it had a great secret in it. ‘Blue Ecocriticism’ actually does: its expansive, sophisticated and entertaining account of Ocean as a dominant, threatened material-semiotic actor on Earth offers a digestible remedy for ecocritics’ ‘ocean deficit disorder.’ Be it eco-cosmopolitanism, oceanography or Object Oriented Ontology, Dobrin knows the ropes.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e – \u003ci\u003eGreg Garrard, Professor of Environmental Humanities, Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies, Canada \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith the publication of \u003ci\u003eBlue Ecocriticism and the Oceanic Imperative\u003c\/i\u003e Sid Dobrin takes the stage of humanistic scholarship on the marine environment with a highly engaging introduction to the changing conditions and conceptions of the human relationship to the world’s oceans. Dobrin’s impassioned and insightful work ups the ante for current ecocritical scholarship by calling for (and demonstrating) an oceanic commitment that is both intellectual and personal as well as local, global, and ongoing. By going \u003ci\u003eall in \u003c\/i\u003ewith his oceanic scholarship, Dobrin demonstrates why the rest of us should, too.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e – \u003cem\u003eDaniel Brayton, Julian W. Abernethy Chair of Literature, Director, Environmental Studies Program, USA\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExcerpt from review in \u003cem\u003eEcocene Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, 2.2, 2021\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"…\u003ci\u003eBlue Ecocriticism and The Oceanic Imperative \u003c\/i\u003eachieves more than it sets out to do in the first place, not only hitting blue ecocritical waves to the shores of earth-based ecoliteracies but also redirecting vegan studies’ and animal studies’ rivers into the deep waters of blue humanities. The imperative of rerouting critical interest is urgent for ecocriticism that seems to lack so far both a theoretical framework for and an unscaled interest towards the ocean, as the book aptly explains throughout its chapters. It is, I believe, urgent for vegan studies to join the blue frontier together with land-based ecocriticism and to set sail for blue-oriented representations of nonhuman world.\" -- \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGülşah Göçmen, Aksaray University, Turkey\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e 1. Unearthing Ecocriticism 2. Scaling the Ocean 3. Object Ocean 4. Seeing Ocean 5. Protein Economies 6. Blue Frontiers\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019479122263,"sku":"9781138315273","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138315273.jpg?v=1750780396","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/blue-ecocriticism-and-the-oceanic-imperative-9781138315273","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}