{"product_id":"green-matters-ecocultural-functions-of-literature-9789004408869","title":"Green Matters: Ecocultural Functions of Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGreen Matters offers a fascinating insight into the regenerative function of literature with regard to environmental concerns. Based on recent developments in ecocriticism, the book demonstrates how the aesthetic dimension of literary texts makes them a vital force in the struggle for sustainable futures. Applying this understanding to individual works from a number of different thematic fields, cultural contexts and literary genres, Green Matters presents novel approaches to the manifold ways in which literature can make a difference. While the first sections of the book highlight the transnational, the focus on Canada in the last section allows a more specific exploration of how themes, genres and literary forms develop their own manifestations within a national context. Through its unifying ecocultural focus and its variegated approaches, the volume is an essential contribution to contemporary environmental humanities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes on Contributors    Part 1: Introduction and Theoretical Frame     1Introduction to the Volume    Melanie Braunecker and Maria Löschnigg     2The Function of Literature in Environmental Discourses    Maria Löschnigg     3Literature and\/as Cultural Ecology    Hubert Zapf    Part 2: Literature and the Environment: Past and Present     4Representing the Environment in Victorian, Modern, and Postcolonial Fictions: Three Maritime Canadian Novels    David Creelman     5‘On the Edge of Humanism’: Travel Writing at the Intersection of Environmental Concerns    Halia Koo     6James Joyce’s Ulysses: Vampires, ‘Fake News’, and the Approaching Global Environmental Hunger Crisis    Bonnie Roos    Part 3: New Approaches to Climate Fiction     7Cli-Fi – Genre of the Twenty-First Century? Narrative Strategies in Contemporary Climate Fiction and Film    Axel Goodbody     8Western American Cli-Fi: The Biosemiotics of Ecophrasis    Alex Hunt     9Allegory and Human Nature in Ian McEwan’s Solar    Johannes Wally     10Un\/doing Climate Change in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book and Ellen van Neerven’s ‘Water’    Iva Polak     11Abject Permanence: Apocalyptic Narratives and the Horror of Persistence    Heather Duncan and Eleanor Gold    Part 4: Creative Criticism     12Imagination and the Eco-social Crisis (or: Why I Write Creative Non-fiction)    Julia Martin     13‘When we walked on the backs of fish’: A Writer’s Environmental Path in the Creation of Multi-dimensional Narratives    Marilyn Bowering     14The Multi-genre Multimedia Disjunctive Poetic Narrative Dream Text: ‘New Epic’ Attentions in Contemporary Canadian Experimental Writing    Di Brandt    Part 5: Special Focus: Canadian Contexts     15Native Knowledge Systems and the Cultural Ecology of Literature    Maria Löschnigg     16Climate Change Drama across Time and Space: Chantal Bilodeau’s Forward (2016)    Nassim Winnie Balestrini     17The Lure of Fast Money: Staging Fort McMurray    Melanie Braunecker     18carried away on the crest of a wave – A Play of Hope by David Yee    Albert Rau     19Where the Wild Things Are: The Role of Animals in Canadian Schoolbooks    Claire E. Smerdon     20Two Tragic Tales of Ursus canadensis: Animal Perspectives in Charles G.D. Roberts’ The Heart of the Ancient Wood and Antonine Maillet’s L’Oursiade    Konrad Gro     Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210781057367,"sku":"9789004408869","price":139.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/green-matters-ecocultural-functions-of-literature-9789004408869","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}