The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination (Blackwell Manifestos)

The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination (Blackwell Manifestos)
by Lawrence Buell

The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination (Blackwell Manifestos)
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Author: Lawrence Buell
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-08-26
ISBN: 1405124768
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Book Review: A positive-themed manifesto of means to balance differing agendas into a more unified, and therefore stronger movement
Summary: 5 Stars

The Future Of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis And Literary Imagination is a scholarly summary of the distinct critical practices that constitute "ecocriticism" today. Written by one of the world's leading theorists, who traces the ecocritical movement to its roots in the 1970's and its coalescence in the 1990's, The Future Of Environmental Criticism Asks such bold questions as: Why has interest in environmental literary and cultural studies risen so rapidly in recent times? Can the emphasis upon preserving nature of earlier ecocriticism be successfully reconciled with later ecocritical issues of environmental justice? The Future Of Environmental Criticism draws from past and present reality to predict the directions in which future ecocritical movements will flow, and offers a positive-themed manifesto of means to balance differing agendas into a more unified, and therefore stronger movement.

Summary of The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination (Blackwell Manifestos)

Written by one of the world's leading theorists in ecocriticism, this manifesto provides a critical summary of the ecocritical movement.
  • A critical summary of the emerging discipline of "ecocriticism".
  • Written by one of the world's leading theorists in ecocriticism.
  • Traces the history of the ecocritical movement from its roots in the 1970s through to its diversification and proliferation today.
  • Takes account of different ecocritical positions and directions.
  • Describes major tensions within ecocriticism and addresses major criticisms of the movement.
  • Looks to the future of ecocriticism, proposing that discourses of the environment should become a permanent part of literary and cultural studies.
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