| Death-Facing Ecology in Contemporary British and North American Environmental Crisis Fiction Contributor(s): Squire, Louise (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138304689 ISBN-13: 9781138304680 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - General - Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 823.920 |
| LCCN: 2019042115 |
| Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.90 lbs) 166 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Topical - Ecology |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Recent years have seen a burgeoning of novels that respond to the environmental issues we currently face. Among these, Louise Squire defines environmental crisis fiction as concerned with a range of environmental issues and with the human subject as a catalyst for these issues. She argues that this fiction is characterised by a thematic use of death, through which it explores a crisis of both environment and self. Squire refers to this emergent thematic device as death-facing ecology. This device enables this fiction to engage with a range of theoretical ideas and with popular notions of death and the human condition as cultural phenomena of the modern West. In doing so, this fiction invites its readers to consider how humanity might begin to respond to the crisis. |