Ecology and literature: ecocentric personification from antiquity to the twenty-first century

Employing a groundbreaking rhetorical and ecocritical approach, this volume advances personification/anthropomorphism as a means of representing the natural world and arguing for its worth outside of human use. ÍNDICE: - PART I: PERSONIFICATION IN PRACTICE AND THEORY - Rhetorical Approach - Ecocentrism - Ecocentric Personification - Anthropomorphism: Resistanceand Inevitability - The ubiquity of Anthropomorphism - Anthropomorphism and Ethology - Anthropomorphism as Taboo and Norm in Nature Writing - Personification Theory - The Demotion of Personification - Personification and Allegory: Abrams and de Man - PART II: ANTHROPOCENTRIC AND ECOLOGICAL ANTHROPOMORPHISM THROUGH WESTERN HISTORY - Antiquity - Early Christian, Medieval - Early Science -The Enlightenment - English Eighteenth-Century Poetry - Wordsworth and the Birth of Ecological Poetry Darwin - PART III: ANTHROPOMORPHIC SUBVERSION IN AMERICAN LITERATURE - Early America - William Bartram - Early American Romanticism- Emerson - Herman Melville and Anti-anthropocentric Personification - Walt Whitman and b Song of Myself,b Chant 32 - Emily Dickinson - The Naturalists (Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Jack London) - William Faulknerb s Bear - Robinson Jeffers and the Tragedy of Anthropocentrism - Flannery Ob Connorb s View of the Woods - Ecocentric Personification in post World War II American Poetry - PART IV: ECOCENTRIC PERSONIFICATION IN AMERICAN NATURE WRITING - Henry David Thoreau - John Muir - Mary Austin - Aldo Leopold - Loren Eiseley - Edward Abbey -Annie Dillard - Terry Tempest Williams - Ecocentric Personification in Three Twenty-First Century Works - - -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-60669-2
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 260
• Fecha Publicación: 31/10/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés