Explore
Literature and Sustainability
0 Ungluers have
Faved this Work
Login to Fave
Sustainability has become a key socio-political issue over recent years. However, whilst the literary-critical community has advanced enthusiastically on an exciting range of environmentally-based analyses (most obviously through the work of ecocriticism), its response specifically to sustainability—as an attempt to reconceptualise the way we live, as an idea with a particular history, and as a ubiquitous term driven through over-use to near meaninglessness—has been extremely limited. The basic idea of the volume is to make a start on filling this gap. Split into four sections: Historicising sustainability, Discourses of sustainability, The sustainability of literature, Sustainability in literature – it has some very good contributors, and starts off with an introduction about the history of the term, looks at its beginnings in the C19th, and goes onto show how contemporary authors are dealing with it including Jeanette Winterson, Michel Houellebecq, Margaret Atwood and Amitav Ghosh.
This book is included in DOAB.
Why read this book? Have your say.
You must be logged in to comment.
Rights Information
Are you the author or publisher of this work? If so, you can claim it as yours by registering as an Unglue.it rights holder.Downloads
This work has been downloaded 301 times via unglue.it ebook links.
- 57 - pdf (CC BY-NC-ND) at OAPEN Library.
- 78 - pdf (CC BY-NC-ND) at Unglue.it.
Keywords
- Environmentalism
- History
- KUnlatched
- Literacy Criticism
- Literary Criticism / European
- Literature
- Literature & literary studies
- Literature: history & criticism
- sustainability
- thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism
- thorium
Links
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctt1wn0s7qEditions
