Record Details     « New Search       Brief Record Full Record MARC Record     Bibliographic Data Control Number muse60679 Control Number Identifier MdBmJHUP Date and Time of Latest Transaction 20180103104318.0 General Information 170425s2017 mnu o 00 0 eng d International Standard Book Number 9781452955728   1452955727   9781517901585 (hardback : acid-free paper)   9781517901592 (pbk : acid-free paper) System Control Number (OCoLC)1016789509 Cataloging Source MdBmJHUP MdBmJHUP Library of Congress Call Number PN98.E36 M37 2017 Dewey Decimal Classification Number 809/.9336 23 Main Entry - Personal Name Marran, Christine L., author. Title Statement Ecology without Culture [electronic resource] : Aesthetics for a Toxic World / Christine L. Marran Physical Description 1 online resource (pages cm) Summary, Etc. "Cultures have long defined themselves through biological elements to prove their strength and longevity, from cherry blossoms in Japan to amber waves of grain in the United States. In Ecology without Culture, Christine L. Marran introduces the concept of biotropes--material and semiotic figures that exist for human perception--to navigate how and why the material world has proven to be such an effective medium for representing culture. A bold and timely reconsideration of ecocriticism, Ecology without Culture insists on decentering questions of culture to highlight the materiality of poetry, film, and prose fiction. Marran argues that ecocriticism can critique ecological realities more effectively from outside the frame of human exceptionalism. Through discussions of primarily non-Anglophone literature, poetry, and cinema about toxic events in contemporary history-- from the depiction of slow violence in documentary by Tsuchimoto Noriaki to the powerful poetry of Ishimure Michiko--Marran argues that ecocriticism must find a way to engage culture without making the perpetuation of ethnos and anthropos the endgame of ecopolitics. Using the biological foundations and geological time scales of textual worlds to more deeply critique cultural humanism, Marran ultimately contends that the chief stumbling block to ecological thinking is not the image of nature, but the image of culture"-- Provided by publisher Subject Added Entry - Topical Term LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General. -- bisacsh   Ecology in motion pictures   Ecology in literature   Ecocriticism Index Term - Genre/Form Electronic books. -- local Added Entry - Corporate Name Project Muse           Physical Location           Digital Copy Not Available          Add to Book Cart  |   Download MARC