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    1 517

    This volume surveys the contribution of German literature and culture to the evolution of ecological thought from the age of Goethe to the present. In a broad spectrum of essays from different periods, disciplines, and genres, it conveys both the uniqueness and the transnational significance of German ecological thought.

  • - Disaster, Precarity, and the Biopolitical Uncanny
    av Pramod K. Nayar
    1 151

    The book offers a close examination of the rhetoric and discourses around the Bhopal disaster through a reading of numerous cultural texts-from fiction to protest effigies and posters - and maps the production of an ecological Gothic around the disaster.

  • - Uncovering a Transcultural Paradigm
    av Francisco LaRubia-Prado
    1 311

    This book explores the balancing function that horses play when they become central characters in literature and film. Through close readings of texts from the Middle Ages until the present, covering works from Eastern and Western cultures, the book examines the deep symbolic meaning, cultural significance, and projective power of these animals.

  • - Urban Poetics and Politics
     
    1 421

    This book rethinks cities' relationships to sustainable development from a cultural studies perspective with social justice as its goal. Chapter authors are optimistic that cities can achieve sustainability, but insist that cities will if participation in the effort is inclusive of all groups.

  • - Critical Essays
     
    1 151

    The book provides ecocultural perspectives on ethics from a variety of cultural contexts. It argues that any ecological perspectives/issues/conditions cannot be separated from their cultural contexts and thus, we need to employ a culture-specific scrutiny to understand the ethics of ecoculture.

  • - Endurance and the Natural World, 1780-1830
     
    631

    This book is an international collection of ecocritical essays that examine sustainability in relation to Romantic-era Britain. It examines Romantic works while interrogating issues of race, gender, religion, and identity, beginning with inspiration and creativity and ending with considerations about extinction and apocalypse.

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