Death-Facing Ecology in Contemporary British and North American Environmental Crisis Fiction

ISBN-13: 9781032239293 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 176 str.

Louise Squire

Opis

Louise Squire defines environmental crisis fiction as concerned with a range of environmental issues and with the human subject as a catalyst for these issues. She argues that this fiction is characterised by a thematic use of "death," through which it explores a "crisis" of both environment and self.

Spis treści

Introduction: Thoughts Towards an Ecology of Death-Facing

1. A Crisis of Environment, A crisis in Thought
2. Death Denial, Death facing
3. Impasse, Paradox
4. Discursive Death, Material Death

Conclusion: Imageries of the Future

O autorze

Louise Squire researches in contemporary literature and ecocriticism. She works at University of Portsmouth and is Assistant Editor for Ecozon@. Publications include (co-editor) Literature and Sustainability: Concept, Text and Culture, a chapter in Extending Ecocritcism, ed. by Peter Barry and William Welstead, and an article in The Oxford Literary Review.