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Hope at Sea: Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature

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Description for Hope at Sea: Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1QSP; DSB; RN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.

As far back as Thomas More’s Utopia and Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis, the Pacific Ocean has inspired literary creations of promising worlds. Hope at Sea asks how literary writers have more recently conceived the future of ocean living. In doing so, it provides a new perspective on art and imagination in the face of enormous environmental change.

Drawing together ecocriticism, theories of hope, and literary analysis, this book explores how literary writers evoke hope in engaging with environmental upheavals that are reshaping life in the Pacific Ocean. Teresa Shewry considers contemporary poetry, short stories, novels, art, and journalistic pieces from Australia, ... Read more

Until now, hope has never been theorized in a direct, sustained way in ecocriticism. Hope at Sea makes an argument for hope as a lens for creative and critical confrontation with environmental disruptions and the resulting sense of loss. It also reflects on the critical approaches that hope as an analytic category opens up for the study of environmental literature.

With hope as a critical perspective, Shewry develops a method for reading environmental literature: literary writers create new ways to apprehend existing environmental realities and craft stories about seas, forests, cities, and rivers that could be—not as literal plans but as ways of imagining promising lives in the present world and in the world to come.


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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816691586
SKU
V9780816691586
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99-1

About Teresa Shewry
Teresa Shewry is assistant professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a coeditor of Environmental Criticism for the Twenty-First Century.

Reviews for Hope at Sea: Possible Ecologies in Oceanic Literature
"Teresa Shewry’s Hope at Sea is a rich and informative study of how hope somehow emerges within the embattled contexts of social injustice and environmental destruction."—Stacy Alaimo, University of Texas, Arlington "The depth of scientific and literary research that underpins Hope at Sea and the convincing argument for the role of the imagination and its creative endeavors in sustaining life, ... Read more

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