Material Ecocriticism - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253013984 ISBN 13: 9780253013989

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Material Ecocriticism offers new ways to analyze language and reality, human and nonhuman life, mind and matter, without falling into well-worn paths of thinking. Bringing ecocriticism closer to the material turn, the contributions to this landmark volume focus on material forces and substances, the agency of things, processes, narratives and stories, and making meaning out of the world. This broad-ranging reflection on contemporary human experience and expression provokes new understandings of the planet to which we are intimately connected.

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Review:

This book is not an extension of spirituality to the boring domain of materiality, and it is not the opposite either, the humbling appeal to material infrastructure in order to dampen the dreams of scholars, priests, ecologists, and militants for a more uplifting world of meanings and beauties. It is the exploration of how many dimensions―many indeed spiritual―have been lost in not taking materiality seriously enough. A move that meets scientists half way to help them profit from their science so as to explore in common what geophysicitsis now call 'critical zones.' Critical zones indeed! Author: Bruno Latour Source: Université Sciences Po Paris

From the Author:

Serenella Iovino is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Turin, Italy.

Serpil Oppermann is Professor of English at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0253013984
• ISBN 13: 9780253013989
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 359
• Editor: Iovino Serenella, Oppermann Serpil