Squire, Louise.
The Environmental Crisis Novel Ecological Death-Facing in Contemporary British and North American Fiction. [electronic resource] : - Milton : Routledge, 2019. - 1 online resource (177 p.)
Description based upon print version of record.
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 characterized 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.
9781351396516 135139651X 9780203729861 0203729862 9781351396493 1351396498 9781351396509 1351396501
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
English literature--Themes, motives.--21st century
American literature--Themes, motives.--21st century
Climatic changes in literature.
Human ecology in literature.
PN56.C612
823.92093553
The Environmental Crisis Novel Ecological Death-Facing in Contemporary British and North American Fiction. [electronic resource] : - Milton : Routledge, 2019. - 1 online resource (177 p.)
Description based upon print version of record.
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 characterized 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.
9781351396516 135139651X 9780203729861 0203729862 9781351396493 1351396498 9781351396509 1351396501
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
English literature--Themes, motives.--21st century
American literature--Themes, motives.--21st century
Climatic changes in literature.
Human ecology in literature.
PN56.C612
823.92093553