Ecocriticism, Ecology, and the Cultures of Antiquity (eBook)

Christopher Schliephake (Herausgeber)

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2016
384 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-3285-3 (ISBN)

Infos

By focusing on ancient culture and its reception, this book fills integrates antiquity into our current ecocritical theory and practice to fill in a gap in our environmental debates. It aims at a re-evaluation of antiquity in the light of present-day environmental concerns and re-frames our contemporary outlook on the more-than-human world in the light of cultures far removed from our own.

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Although current environmental debates lay the focus on the Industrial Revolution as a sociopolitical development that has led to the current environmental crisis, many ecocritical projects have avoided historicizing their concepts or have been characterized by approaches that were either pre-historic or post-historic: while the environmental movement has harbored the dream of restoring nature to a state untouched by human hands, there is also the pessimistic vision of a post-apocalyptic world, exhausted by humanity's consumption of natural resources. Against this background, the decline of nature has become a narrative template quite common among the public environmental discourse and environmental scientists alike. The volume revisits Antiquity as an epoch which witnessed similar environmental problems and came up with its own interpretations and solutions in dealing with them. This decidedly historical perspective is not only supposed to fill in a blank in ecocritical discourse, but also to question, problematize, and inform our contemporary debates with a completely different take on ';nature' and humanity's place in the world. Thereby, a productive dialogue between contemporary ecocritical theories and the classical tradition is established that highlights similarities as well as differences. This volume is the first book to bring ecocriticism and the classical tradition into a comprehensive dialogue. It assembles recognized experts in the field and advanced scholars as well as young and aspiring ecocritics. In order to ensure a dialogic exchange between the contributions, the volume includes four response essays by established ecocritics which embed the sections within a larger theoretical and practical ecocritical framework and discuss the potential of including the pre-modern world into our environmental debates.

Autor

Christopher Schliephake is a cultural historian, ecocritic, and postdoc scholar at the University of Augsburg.

Inhalt

(3) Glades of Dread: The Ecology and Aesthetics of loca horrida, Aneta Kliszcz and Joanna Komorowska De Rerum Natura, Richard Hutchins Silvae 4.3, Christopher Chinn Bellum Civile, Vittoria Prencipe Part III: ‘Green’ Genres: The Pastoral and Georgic TraditionHow / to make fields fertile”: Ecocritical Lessons from the History of Virgil’s Georgics in Translation, Laura Sayre Nec provident futuro tempori, sed quasi plane in diem vivant – Sustainable Business in Columella’s De Re Rustica?, Lars Keßler and Konrad Ott (18) Response: From Ecocritical Reception of the Ancients to the Future of the Environmental Humanities (with a detour via Romanticism), Kate Rigby Afterword: Revealing Roots – Ecocriticism and the Cultures of Antiquity, Serenella Iovino

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.12.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Co-Autor: J. Donald Hughes, Richard Hutchins, Marguerite Johnson, Lars Keler, Aneta Klisczc, Joanna Komorowska, Lucy Mercer, Konrad Ott, Vittoria Prencipe, Kate Rigby, Laura Sayre, Thomas Sharkie, Justine Walter, Jingcheng Xu, Anna Banks, Roman Bartosch, Hannes Bergthaller, Christopher Chinn, Katharina Donn, Terry Gifford, Laurence Grove
• Nachwort: Serenella Iovino
• Vorwort: Brooke Holmes
• Zusatzinfo: 3 Illustrations including: - 1 Black & White Illustrations; - 1 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 1 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Ancient Culture • Ancient history • classical reception studies • Classical tradition • Cultural Ecology • Ecocriticism • Ecology • Environmental history • green cultural studies • premodernity
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-3285-3 / 1498532853
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-3285-3 / 9781498532853