This book establishes how ecopoetics can provide insight into the poetic echoes of the living earth that are diffracted in environmental fiction, encouraging a reenchantment that adheres to postmodern science, while braiding various onto-epistemological threads. It reentangles the very material texture of language within the biosemiotic world.
Ecopoetics of Reenchantment: Liminal Realism and Poetic Echoes of the Earth tackles the reenchantment process at work in a part of contemporary ecoliterature that is marked by the resurfacing of the song of the earth topos and of Gaia images. Focusing on the postmodernist braiding of various indigenous and ecofeminist ontologies, close readings of ......
Fully revised and updated, EdibleWild Plants highlights ninety of the most common and sought-after edible plant species in North America. Detailed illustrations and descriptions make it easy to identify plants in your backyard and beyond. Organized by family for easy identification, this is the essential source when you're out in the field.
Emerson's Metaphors is a fundamental reinterpretation of the major American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson and an interdisciplinary intervention in literary criticism. This book draws on the methods and conclusions of the paradigm shifting Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), which recognizes that metaphor is a cognitive form rather than a rhetorical or ......
This book defines for readers the ecological epoch known as the Anthropocene and brings together an interdisciplinary roster of researchers and scholars to address key imminent challenges to human society posed by climate crisis. The work also analyzes and provides a constructive vision on the relationship between social justice and the media.
This book re-envisions the cosmos with the holistic, spherical imagination of the Middle Ages, figured in circles, cycles, epicycles, equants, and offers a new perspective on the power of images and metaphors to shape the way humans see the universe and their own role in it.
Environmental Postcolonialism investigates the environmental ramifications of colonialism and furnishes a hopeful ecocritical vision of a postcolonial world.
Environmental Postcolonialism investigates the environmental ramifications of colonialism and furnishes a hopeful ecocritical vision of a postcolonial world.
Environmental Sociology: Risk and Sustainability in Modernity examines the encounter between sociology and contemporary environmental issues. It presents the proposal for an environmental sociology considering the dilemmas surrounding sustainable development, ecological modernization, and risk society.
