| The Nature Essay: Ecocritical Explorations Contributor(s): Schröder, Simone (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004360387 ISBN-13: 9789004360389 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $116.85 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism - Literary Collections - Philosophy | Political |
| Series: Nature, Culture and Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.10 lbs) 238 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Nature Essay: Ecocritical Explorations is the first extended study of a powerful literary form born out of the traditions of Enlightenment and Romanticism. It traces the varied stylistic paradigms of the 'nature essay' down to the present day. Reading essays as platforms for ecological discourse, the book analyses canonical and marginalised texts, mainly from German, English and American literature. Simone Schr der argues that the essay's environmental impact is rooted in its negotiation of scientific, poetic, spiritual, and ethical modes of perceiving nature. Together, the chapters on these four aspects form a historical panorama of the nature essay as a genre that continues to flourish in our time of ecological crisis. Authors discussed include: Alexander von Humboldt, Henry David Thoreau, Virginia Woolf, Robert Musil, Ernst J nger, W.G. Sebald, Kathleen Jamie, and David Foster Wallace. |
