Literature for a Changing Planet (eBook)

Martin Puchner (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
160 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23042-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastropheReading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddling while Rome burns. Yet, at this turning point for the planet, scientists, policymakers, and activists have woken up to the power of stories in the fight against global warming. In Literature for a Changing Planet, Martin Puchner ranges across four thousand years of world literature to draw vital lessons about how we put ourselves on the path of climate change-and how we might change paths before it's too late.From the Epic of Gilgamesh and the West African Epic of Sunjata to the Communist Manifesto, Puchner reveals world literature in a new light-as an archive of environmental exploitation and a product of a way of life responsible for climate change. Literature depends on millennia of intensive agriculture, urbanization, and resource extraction, from the clay of ancient tablets to the silicon of e-readers. Yet literature also offers powerful ways to change attitudes toward the environment. Puchner uncovers the ecological thinking behind the idea of world literature since the early nineteenth century, proposes a new way of reading in a warming world, shows how literature can help us recognize our shared humanity, and discusses the possible futures of storytelling.If we are to avoid environmental disaster, we must learn to tell the story of humans as a species responsible for global warming. Filled with important insights about the fundamental relationship between storytelling and the environment, Literature for a Changing Planet is a clarion call for readers and writers who care about the fate of life on the planet.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.2.2022
• Reihe/Serie: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities/Princeton University Press Lectures in European Culture
• Reihe/Serie: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities/Princeton University Press Lectures in European Culture
• Zusatzinfo: 6 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Adventure Story (play) • Aeneid • Age of Oil • Ancient Greece • Antihero • Aratta • author • Barbarian • Book • Caesar and Pompey • Case study • Censorship • city-state • Civilization • class conflict • Climate • climate change • climate justice • Collective Action • Colonial empire • Colonialism • Colonization • Comparative Literature • Competition • Confucius • Conquistador • consumer • Consumption (Economics) • Creative Writer • Critical reading • Criticism • Danish language • deep history • disaster • Dissemination • Divine Retribution • E-Book • Ecocriticism • Ecology • Economic Globalization • Edition (book) • Education • Enkidu • Enlil • Environmental Degradation • Environmental economics • Epic of Gilgamesh • Epic Poetry • Explanation • Fan fiction • Fiction • Flood myth • Genre • Globalization • global warming • glyph • G. (novel) • hard choices • Headline • Henry David Thoreau • Hinterland • Hippie • How It Happened • Humbaba • Illustration • Immigration Law • Indian Literature • industrialisation • industrial worker • Information Management • insect • Institution • interdependence • International Trade • Jataka tales • Johannes Gutenberg • language family • Latin alphabet • Latin America • Latin Literature • Literacy • Literary criticism • Literary language • Literary Realism • Literature • Manifesto • Mechanization • narrative • Nationalism • New Media • new narrative • Novel • novelist • nutrient • occupy wall street • Odysseus • odyssey • of education • orality • Poet • Poetry • polyphemus • Popol Vuh • Prediction • preface • printing press • Protagonist • Publication • Publishing • questionnaire • Rabindranath Tagore • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Rant (novel) • Refugee • Renaissance humanism • Right of asylum • ripple effect • save the planet • Scholarly method • Scientist • scrutiny • Scrutiny (journal) • Setting (narrative) • settlement movement • Settler Colonialism • Shipbuilding • Social Movement • Society • Sociocultural evolution • source text • spaniards • Storytelling • Suggestion • Technology • The Communist Manifesto • The Realist • The Various • Think Tank • To this Day • Trickster • Uncertainty • Unintended Consequences • Uruk • Utnapishtim • Wai Chee Dimock • Western literature • Western United States • Wilhelm von Humboldt • William H. McNeill (historian) • World Economy • World History • World literature • Writer • Writing • writing system • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23042-0 / 0691230420
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23042-9 / 9780691230429