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22%OFFHeather Houser - Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect - 9780231165143 - V9780231165143
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Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect

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Description for Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect Hardback. Series: Literature Now. Num Pages: 328 pages, 5 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 588.
The 1970s brought a new understanding of the biological and intellectual impact of environmental crises on human beings. As efforts to prevent ecological and bodily injury aligned, a new literature of sickness emerged. "Ecosickness fiction" imaginatively rethinks the link between these forms of threat and the sick body to bring readers to environmental consciousness. Tracing the development of ecosickness through a compelling archive of contemporary U.S. novels and memoirs, Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction establishes that we cannot comprehend environmental and medical dilemmas through data alone and must call on the sometimes surprising emotions that literary metaphors, tropes, and narratives ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
Literature Now
Condition
New
Weight
587g
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231165143
SKU
V9780231165143
Shipping Time
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99-1

About Heather Houser
Heather Houser is associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.

Reviews for Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect
This sophisticated reconnaissance of an impressive range of turn-of-the-twenty-first-century works both adroitly builds upon and convincingly takes issue with the new 'materialist' ecocriticism by offering a subtly compelling assessment of the place of affect in works of environmental imagination and environmental intervention generally. Not contemporary U.S. fiction specialists alone, but ecocritics in all bailiwicks are sure to profit from Heather ... Read more

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