Greening the Maple: Canadian Ecocriticism in Context

ISBN-13: 9781552385463 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 624 str.

Ella Soper; Nicholas Bradley

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Ecocriticism can be described in very general terms as the investigation of the many ways in which culture and the environment are interrelated and conceptualized. Ecocriticism aspires to understand and often to celebrate the natural world, yet it does so

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• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Ecocriticism North of the Forty-ninth Parallel
• Ella Spoer and Nicholas Bradley
• Section 1: Nature and Nation: Before and Beyond Thematic Criticism
• Chapter 1: Selections from The Busch Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination (1971)
• Northrop Frye
• Chapter 2: Selections from Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972)
• Margaret Atwood
• Chapter 3: La ForÊt or the Winlderness as Myth (1987)
• Rosemary Sullivan
• Chapter 4: Quest for the Peaceable Knowledge: Urban/Rural Codes in Roy, Laurence, and Atwood (1984)
• Sherrill E. Grace
• Chapter 5: Women in the Wilderness (1986)
• Heather Murray
• Section 2: The Emergence of Ecocriticism in Canada
• Chapter 6: "Along the Line of Smoky Hills": Further Steps towards an Ecological Poetics (1990)
• D.M.R. Bentley
• Chapter 7: So Big about Green (1991)
• Laurie Ricou
• Chapter 8: So Unwise about Green (1996)
• Laurie Ricou
• Chapter 9: Eruptions of Postmodernity: The Postcolonial and the Ecological (1993)
• Linda Hutcheon
• Chapter 10: Contemporary Canadian Poetry from the Edge: An Exploration of Literary Ecocriticism (1995)
• Gabriele Helms
• Chapter 11: Nature's Nation, National Natures? Reading Ecocriticism in a Canadian Context (1998)
• Susie O'Brien
• Section 3: Reading Canadian Landscapes
• Chapter 12: Nature Trafficking: Writing and Environment in the Western Canada-U.S. Borderlands
• Jenny Kerber
• Chapter 13: Calypso Trails: Botanizing on the Bruce Peninsula (2010)
• Catriona Sandilands
• Chapter 14: Knowledge, Power, and Place: Environmental Politics in the Fiction of Matt Cohen and David Adams Richards
• Cheryl Lousley
• Section 4: Environments and Cross-Cultural Encounters
• Chapter 15: Canadian Art according to Emily Carr: The Search for Indigenous Expression (2005)
• Linda Morra
• Chapter 16: "Mon pays, ce n'est pas un pays, c'est l'hiver": Literary Representations of Nature and Ecocritical Thought in Quebec
• Stephanie Posthumus and Élise SalaÜn
• Chapter 17: Decolonization: Reading Asian and First Nations Relations in Literature (2008)
• Rita Wong
• Section 5: Neighbours Unknown: Animals in Canadian Literature
• Chapter 18: Selections from Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972)
• Margaret Atwood
• Chapter 19: Political Science: Realism in Robert's Animal Stories (1996)
• Misano Dean
• Chapter 20: The "I" in Beaver: Sympathetic Identification in the Self-Representation in Grey Owl's Pilgrims of the Wild (2007)
• Carrie Dawson
• Chapter 21: The Ontology and Epistemology of Walking: Animality in Karsten Huer's Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd
• Pamela Banting
• Section 6: In Full Bloom: New Directions in Canadian Theory
  Chapter 22: Poetics of the Semiosphere: Pataphysics, Biosemiotics, and Imaginary Solutions for Water (2011)
• Adam Dickinson

  Chapter 23: Literature and Geology: An Experiment in Interdisciplinary Comparative Ecocriticism

• Travis V. Mason
• Chapter 24: The Dwelling Perspective in English-Canadian Drama
• Nelson Gray
• Afterword: Ecocritical Futures
• Ella Soper and Nicholas Bradley
• Appendix: Taking Frlight: From Little Grey Birds to The Goose
• Liza Sazbo-Jones
• Notes
• Index