The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism (Oxford Handbooks)

The Oxford Handbook Of Ecocriticism Explores A Range Of Critical Perspectives Used To Analyze Literature, Film, And The Visual Arts In Relation To The Natural Environment. Since The Publication Of Field-defining Works By Lawrence Buell, Jonathan Bate, And Cheryll Glotfelty And Harold Fromm In The 1990s, Ecocriticism Has Become A Conventional Paradigm For Critical Analysis Alongside Queer Theory, Deconstruction, And Postcolonial Studies. The Field Includes Numerous Approaches, Genres, Movements, And Media, As The Essays Collected Here Demonstrate. The Contributors Come From Around The Globe And, Similarly, The Literature And Media Covered Originate From Several Countries And Continents. Taken Together, The Essays Consider How Literary And Other Cultural Productions Have Engaged With The Natural Environment To Investigate Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Sustainability, The Nature Of Humanity, And More. Featuring Thirty-four Original Chapters, The Volume Is Organized Into Three Major Areas. The First, History, Addresses Topics Such As The Renaissance Pastoral, Romantic Poetry, The Modernist Novel, And Postmodern Transgenic Art. The Second, Theory, Considers How Traditional Critical Theories Have Expanded To Include Environmental Perspectives. Included In This Section Are Essays On Queer Theory, Science Studies, Deconstruction, And Postcolonialism. Genre, The Final Major Section, Explores The Specific Artforms That Have Animated The Field Over The Past Decade, Including Nature Writing, Children's Literature, Animated Films, And Digital Media. A Short Section Entitled Views From Here Concludes The Handbook By Zeroing In On The Various Transnational Perspectives Informing The Continued Dissemination And Globalization Of The Field. Part I. History -- 1. Being Green In Late Medieval English Literature / Gillian Rudd -- 2. Shadows Of The Renaissance / Robert N. Watson -- 3. Romanticism And Ecocriticism / Kate Rigby -- 4. Cholera, Kipling, And Tropical India / Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee -- 5. Ecocriticism And Modernism / Anne Raine -- 6. W.e.b. Du Bois At The Grand Canyon: Nature, History, And Race In 'darkwater' / John Claborn -- 7. Pataphysics And Postmodern Ecocriticism: A Prospectus / Adam Dickinson -- Part Ii. Theory -- 8. Ecocriticism And The Politics Of Representation / Cheryl Lousley -- 9. Cosmovisions: Environmental Justice, Transnational American Studies, And Indigenous Literature / Joni Adamson -- 10. Feminist Science Studies And Ecocriticism: Aesthetics And Entanglement In The Deep Sea / Stacy Alaimo -- 11. Mediating Climate Change: Ecocriticism, Science Studies, And 'the Hungry Tide' / Adam Trexler -- 12. Ecocriticism, Posthumanism, And The Biological Idea Of Culture / Helena Feder --^ 13. Ferality Tales / Greg Gerrard -- 14. Biosemiotic Criticism / Timo Maran -- 15. Phenomenology / Timothy Clark -- 16. Deconstruction And/as Ecology / Timothy Morton -- 17. Queer Life?: Ecocriticism After The Fire / Catriona Sandilands -- 18. Postcolonialism / Elizabeth Deloughrey -- 19. Extinctions: Chronicles Of Vanishing Fauna In The Colonial And Postcolonial Caribbean / Lizabeth Paravisini-gebert -- Part Iii. Genre -- 20. Ecocritical Approaches To Literary Form And Genre: Urgency, Depth, Provisionality, Temporality / Richard Kerridge -- 21. Are You Serious?: A Modest Proposal For Environmental Humor / Michael P. Branch -- 22. Is American Nature Writing Dead? / Daniel J. Philippon -- 23. Environmental Writing For Children: A Selected Reconnaissance Of Heritages, Emphases, Horizons / Lawrence Buell -- 24. The Contemporary English Novel And Its Challenges To Ecocriticism / Atrid Bracke --^ 25. A Music Numerous As Space: Cognitive Environment And The House That Lyric Builds / Sharon Lattig -- 26. Rethinking Eco-film Studies / David Ingram -- 27. Green Banjo: The Ecoformalism Of Old-time Music / Scott Knickerbocker -- 28. Media Moralia: Reflections On Damaged Environments And Digital Life / Andrew Mcmurry -- 29. Talking About Climate Change: The Ecological Crisis And Narrative Form / Ursula Kluwick -- Part Iv. The Views From Here -- 30. Ecocriticism In Japan / Yuki Masami -- 31. Engaging With Prakriti: A Survey Of Ecocritical Praxis In India / Swarnalatha Rangarajan -- 32. Chinese Ecocriticism In The Last Ten Years / Qingqi Wei -- 33. German Ecocriticism: An Overview / Axel Goodbody -- 34. Barrier Beach / Rob Nixon. Edited By Greg Garrard. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover The oxford handbook of Ecocriticism Copyright Contents Preface Introduction Part I History 1. Being Green in Late Medieval English Literature 2. Shadows of the Renaissance 3. Romanticism and Ecocriticism 4. Cholera, Kipling, and Tropical India 5. Ecocriticism and Modernism 6. W. E. B. Du Bois at the Grand Canyon: Nature, History, and Race in Darkwater 7. Pataphysics and Postmodern Ecocriticism: A Prospectus Part II Theory 8. Ecocriticism and the Politics of Representation 9. Cosmovisions: Environmental Justice, Transnational American Studies, and Indigenous Literature 10. Feminist Science Studies and Ecocriticism: Aesthetics and Entanglement in the Deep Sea 11. Mediating Climate Change: Ecocriticism, Science Studies, and The Hungry Tide 12. Ecocriticism, Posthumanism, and the Biological Idea of Culture 13. Ferality Tales 14. Biosemiotic Criticism 15. Phenomenology 16. Deconstruction and/as Ecology 17. Queer Life? Ecocriticism after the Fire 18. Postcolonialism 19. Extinctions: Chronicles of Vanishing Fauna in the Colonial and Postcolonial Caribbean Part III Genre 20. Ecocritical Approaches to Literary Form and Genre: Urgency, Depth, Provisionality, Temporality 21. Are You Serious? A Modest Proposal for Environmental Humor 22. Is American Nature Writing Dead? 23. Environmental Writing for Children: A Selected Reconnaissance of Heritages, Emphases, Horizons 24. The Contemporary English Novel and its Challenges to Ecocriticism 25. “A Music Numerous as Space”: Cognitive Environment and the House that Lyric Builds 26. Rethinking Eco-Film Studies 27. Green Banjo: The Ecoformalism of Old-Time Music 28. Media Moralia: Reflections on Damaged Environments and Digital Life 29. Talking about Climate Change: The Ecological Crisis and Narrative Form Part IV The Views From Here 30. Ecocriticism in Japan 31. Engaging with Prakriti: A Survey of Ecocritical Praxis in India 32. Chinese Ecocriticism in the Last Ten Years 33. German Ecocriticism: An Overview 34. Barrier Beach Index The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism explores a range of critical perspectives used to analyze literature, film, and the visual arts in relation to the natural environment. Since the publication of field-defining works by Lawrence Buell, Jonathan Bate, and Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm in the 1990s, ecocriticism has become a conventional paradigm for critical analysis alongside queer theory, deconstruction, and postcolonial studies. The field includes numerous approaches, genres, movements, and media, as the essays collected here demonstrate. The contributors come from around the globe and, similarly, the literature and media covered originate from several countries and continents. Taken together, the essays consider how literary and other cultural productions have engaged with the natural environment to investigate climate change, environmental justice, sustainability, the nature of "humanity," and more. Featuring thirty-four original chapters, the volume is organized into three major areas. The first, History, addresses topics such as the Renaissance pastoral, Romantic poetry, the modernist novel, and postmodern transgenic art. The second, Theory, considers how traditional critical theories have expanded to include environmental perspectives. Included in this section are essays on queer theory, science studies, deconstruction, and postcolonialism. Genre, the final major section, explores the specific art forms that have animated the field over the past decade, including nature writing, children's literature, animated films, and digital media. A short section entitled Views from Here concludes the handbook by zeroing in on the various transnational perspectives informing the continued dissemination and globalization of the field The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism will provide a broad survey of the longstanding relationship between literature and the environment. The moment for such an offering is opportune in many respects: multiple environmental crises are increasingly inescapable at both transnational and local levels; the role of the humanities in addition to technology and politics is increasingly recognized as central for exploring and finding solutions; and the subject of ecocriticism has reached a kind of critical mass, both within its Anglo-American heartlands and beyond. From its origins in the study of American Nature Writing and British Romanticism, ecocriticism has developed along numerous theoretical, historical, cultural and geographical axes, the most contemporary and exciting of which will be represented in the Handbook. The contributors include eminent founders of the field, including Cheryll Glotfelty and Jonathan Bate, a number of key 'second-wave' ecocritics, and the best up-and-coming scholars. Topics covered include: Green Shakespeare-the Bard's subversive uses of the pastoral; John Clare's sacred relationship with the land; Thoreau's profound political passion; the natural landscape as symbol of postcolonial resistance in works by Lessing, Naipaul, and Coetzee; the relation between feminism and environmentalism; language and the concept of biosemiotics; and concerns over pollution and toxicity in films like Erin Brockovitch, Michael Clayton, and Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism provides a broad survey of the longstanding relationship between literature and the environment. The moment for such an offering is opportune in many respects: multiple environmental crises are increasingly inescapable at both transnational and local levels; the role of the humanities in addition to technology and politics is increasingly recognized as central for exploring and finding solutions; and the subject of ecocriticism has reached a kind of critical mass, both within its Anglo-American heartlands and beyond. From its origins in the study of American Nature Writing and British Romanticism, ecocriticism has developed along numerous theoretical, historical, cultural and geographical axes, the most contemporary and exciting of which will be represented in the Handbook. The contributors include eminent founders of the field, including Michael Branch and Richard Kerridge, a number of key'second-wave'ecocritics, and the best up-and-coming scholars. Topics covered include: Renaissance anxieties about nature; the challenges of representing climate change; the racialization of the environment in the early 20th century; language and the concept of biosemiotics; and the possibilities for environmental humour. The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism provides a broad survey of the longstanding relationship between literature and the environment. The moment for such an offering is opportune in many multiple environmental crises are increasingly inescapable at both transnational and local levels; the role of the humanities in addition to technology and politics is increasingly recognized as central for exploring and finding solutions; and the subject of ecocriticism has reached a kind of critical mass, both within its Anglo-American heartlands and beyond. From its origins in the study of American Nature Writing and British Romanticism, ecocriticism has developed along numerous theoretical, historical, cultural and geographical axes, the most contemporary and exciting of which will be represented in the Handbook. The contributors include eminent founders of the field, including Michael Branch and Richard Kerridge, a number of key 'second-wave' ecocritics, and the best up-and-coming scholars. Topics covered Renaissance anxieties about nature; the challenges of representing climate change; the racialization of the environment in the early 20th century; language and the concept of biosemiotics; and the possibilities for environmental humour. This book explores conflict management in organizations, focusing on the various organizational practices and procedures used to resolve and sometimes prevent conflict in the workplace in countries such as Japan, China, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, Britain, and the United States. It looks at conventional approaches based on standard grievance and dispute resolution procedures as well as alternative dispute resolution methods that seek ways other than civil litigation or turn to administrative agencies that implement employment laws. It discusses grievance procedures under collective bargaining and in non-union firms, along with workplace mediation, interest-based bargaining, the nature and outcomes of conflict management systems, and the role of the organizational ombudsman, third parties, and line managers in conflict management and resolution. In addition, the book examines developments in employment rights and human resources management perspectives on conflict management. It also presents a series of case studies of exemplars and innovators in conflict management, including "judicial mediation" practiced by employment tribunals in the UK. -- Publisher description This volume explores the history, application, and the future of ecocriticism. It traces the origins of and describes the practice of ecocriticism during the renaissance, medieval, and romantic period and evaluates the influence of the ecoformalism of country and old-time music. It analyzes the relevance of various theories and principles to ecocritical analysis including posthumanism, phenomenology, queer theory, deconstruction, pataphyics, biosemiotic criticism, and environmental justice. This volume also investigates the application of ecocriticism in the analysis of the politics of representation, evaluation literary form and genre and in eco-film studies and reviews the relevant works of various authors including Rudyard Kipling and W. E. B. Du Bois.