Green Matters

Ecocultural Functions of Literature

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Green Matters offers a fascinating insight into the regenerative function of literature with regard to environmental concerns. Based on recent developments in ecocriticism, the book demonstrates how the aesthetic dimension of literary texts makes them a vital force in the struggle for sustainable futures. Applying this understanding to individual works from a number of different thematic fields, cultural contexts and literary genres, Green Matters presents novel approaches to the manifold ways in which literature can make a difference. While the first sections of the book highlight the transnational, the focus on Canada in the last section allows a more specific exploration of how themes, genres and literary forms develop their own manifestations within a national context. Through its unifying ecocultural focus and its variegated approaches, the volume is an essential contribution to contemporary environmental humanities.
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2020
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978-90-04-40887-6
Publication date:
26 Nov 2019
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978-90-04-40886-9
Publication date:
28 Nov 2019
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Front Matter
Copyright Page
Notes on Contributors
Part 1 Introduction and Theoretical Frame
Chapter 1 Introduction to the Volume
Chapter 2 The Function of Literature in Environmental Discourses
Chapter 3 Literature and/as Cultural Ecology
Part 2 Literature and the Environment: Past and Present
Chapter 4 Representing the Environment in Victorian, Modern, and Postcolonial Fictions: Three Maritime Canadian Novels
Chapter 5 ‘On the Edge of Humanism’: Travel Writing at the Intersection of Environmental Concerns
Chapter 6 James Joyce’s Ulysses: Vampires, ‘Fake News’, and the Approaching Global Environmental Hunger Crisis
Part 3 New Approaches to Climate Fiction
Chapter 7 Cli-Fi – Genre of the Twenty-First Century? Narrative Strategies in Contemporary Climate Fiction and Film
Chapter 8 Western American Cli-Fi: The Biosemiotics of Ecophrasis
Chapter 9 Allegory and Human Nature in Ian McEwan’s Solar
Chapter 10 Un/doing Climate Change in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book and Ellen van Neerven’s ‘Water’
Chapter 11 Abject Permanence: Apocalyptic Narratives and the Horror of Persistence
Part 4 Creative Criticism
Chapter 12 Imagination and the Eco-social Crisis (or: Why I Write Creative Non-fiction)
Chapter 13 ‘When we walked on the backs of fish’: A Writer’s Environmental Path in the Creation of Multi-dimensional Narratives
Chapter 14 The Multi-genre Multimedia Disjunctive Poetic Narrative Dream Text: ‘New Epic’ Attentions in Contemporary Canadian Experimental Writing
Part 5 Special Focus: Canadian Contexts
Chapter 15 Native Knowledge Systems and the Cultural Ecology of Literature
Chapter 16 Climate Change Drama across Time and Space: Chantal Bilodeau’s Forward (2016)
Chapter 17 The Lure of Fast Money: Staging Fort McMurray
Chapter 18 carried away on the crest of a wave – A Play of Hope by David Yee
Chapter 19 Where the Wild Things Are: The Role of Animals in Canadian Schoolbooks
Chapter 20 Two Tragic Tales of Ursus canadensis: Animal Perspectives in Charles G.D. Roberts’ The Heart of the Ancient Wood and Antonine Maillet’s L’Oursiade
Back Matter
Index
Maria Löschnigg is Professor of English at the University of Graz, Austria. She has published monographs on Canadian literature and British drama, co-edited books on literature and migration, and on contemporary epistolary writing. Her articles focus on a wide range of fields, including ecocritical issues such as Canadian ecopoetry, Native ecologies and Nigerian petro-literature.

Melanie Braunecker is a PhD candidate at the Karl Franzens University of Graz, Austria, and a high school teacher of Latin and English in Klagenfurt, Austria. Her PhD project focuses on literary representations of Canada’s oil/tar sands.
 Notes on Contributors

Part 1: Introduction and Theoretical Frame



 1Introduction to the Volume
  Melanie Braunecker and Maria Löschnigg

 2The Function of Literature in Environmental Discourses
  Maria Löschnigg

 3Literature and/as Cultural Ecology
  Hubert Zapf

Part 2: Literature and the Environment: Past and Present



 4Representing the Environment in Victorian, Modern, and Postcolonial Fictions: Three Maritime Canadian Novels
  David Creelman

 5‘On the Edge of Humanism’: Travel Writing at the Intersection of Environmental Concerns
  Halia Koo

 6James Joyce’s Ulysses: Vampires, ‘Fake News’, and the Approaching Global Environmental Hunger Crisis
  Bonnie Roos

Part 3: New Approaches to Climate Fiction



 7Cli-Fi – Genre of the Twenty-First Century? Narrative Strategies in Contemporary Climate Fiction and Film
  Axel Goodbody

 8Western American Cli-Fi: The Biosemiotics of Ecophrasis
  Alex Hunt

 9Allegory and Human Nature in Ian McEwan’s Solar
  Johannes Wally

 10Un/doing Climate Change in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book and Ellen van Neerven’s ‘Water’
  Iva Polak

 11Abject Permanence: Apocalyptic Narratives and the Horror of Persistence
  Heather Duncan and Eleanor Gold

Part 4: Creative Criticism



 12Imagination and the Eco-social Crisis (or: Why I Write Creative Non-fiction)
  Julia Martin

 13‘When we walked on the backs of fish’: A Writer’s Environmental Path in the Creation of Multi-dimensional Narratives
  Marilyn Bowering

 14The Multi-genre Multimedia Disjunctive Poetic Narrative Dream Text: ‘New Epic’ Attentions in Contemporary Canadian Experimental Writing
  Di Brandt

Part 5: Special Focus: Canadian Contexts



 15Native Knowledge Systems and the Cultural Ecology of Literature
  Maria Löschnigg

 16Climate Change Drama across Time and Space: Chantal Bilodeau’s Forward (2016)
  Nassim Winnie Balestrini

 17The Lure of Fast Money: Staging Fort McMurray
  Melanie Braunecker

 18carried away on the crest of a wave – A Play of Hope by David Yee
  Albert Rau

 19Where the Wild Things Are: The Role of Animals in Canadian Schoolbooks
  Claire E. Smerdon

 20Two Tragic Tales of Ursus canadensis: Animal Perspectives in Charles G.D. Roberts’ The Heart of the Ancient Wood and Antonine Maillet’s L’Oursiade
  Konrad Gro

 Index
Scholars and students in the humanities as well as general readers interested in the manifold intersections between creative writing and environmental concerns and in literature’s contribution to cultural change.
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