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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      February 2019
      February 2019
      ISBN:
      9781316155073
      9781107095298
      9781107479241
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316155073
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.35kg, 194 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.25kg, 194 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, English Literature: General Interest, Literary Theory
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    The Value of Ecocriticism offers a brief, incisive overview of the fast-changing field of environmental literary criticism in a bewildering age of global environmental threat. The intellectual, moral and political complexity of environmental issues, especially at the global scale (the so-called 'Anthropocene') forms a new challenge of inventiveness for both literature and criticism. Ecocriticism has been going through a period of radical change and has become a diverse and huge field on the exciting but unstable boundary between the humanities and the sciences, with a mix of cultural, political, scientific and activist strands. Its mantra is that the environmental crisis demands a reconsideration of society's basic values, constitution and purposes, and that art and literature can be vital in that work. As a leading figure in this field, Timothy Clark surveys recent developments in ecocriticism lucidly, but also sometimes critically. This book examines ecopoetics, material ecocriticism, and the ideas of world literature as well as contentious claims that we are living in a new geological epoch.

    Reviews

    ‘Clark's insightful, well-researched book will be a valuable resource for ecocritics … Recommended’

    W. DiPasquale Source: Choice

    'Clark provides a comprehensive introduction that is useful to a broad audience. This little volume will be useful to teachers and students, as much as to scholars of the field that seek to brush up on their grasp of the field.'

    Eva Rüskamp Source: British Society for Literature and Science

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    • 1 - The ‘Anthropocene’? Nature and Complexity
      pp 17-37
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    • 4 - The Challenge for Prose Narrative
      pp 78-110
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