Exhausted Ecologies: Modernism and Environmental Recovery

ISBN-13: 9781108477918 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 342 str.

Andrew Kalaidjian

Opis

This book showcases the importance of ecological themes in modern literature and will appeal to literary scholars, historians, and anyone interested in environmental issues. Featuring previously unpublished photos and archival texts, it is written in a clear style that presents a narrative on environmental changes for the years 1910-60.

Recenzje

'In his introduction, Kalaidjian expresses the need for both modernism and ecocriticism to advance each other and not “simply reinterpret one through the other's lens”. Exhausted Ecologies therefore has much to offer to those studying Europe and its empires, environmental historians, modernist literary critics, and ecocritical scholars alike. Kalaidjian's work here overall is timely in light of the increasing threat of climate disaster, as well as a fascinating view into the connections between modernist literature and the beginnings of modern environmentalism.' Leanna Lostoski-Ho, EuropeNow

Spis treści

Introduction: places of rest; 1. Nature's reserves: rural exhaustion, inertia, and generative aesthetics; 2. Urban environs: James Joyce and the politics of shared atmosphere; 3. Waste lands: dark pastoral in T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, and Djuna Barnes; 4. Uprooting empire: Jean Rhys and unrest in imperial centers; 5. Decolonizing ecology: Chinua Achebe's new forms of unease; Conclusion: the limits of modernist regeneration.