Culture, Creativity and Environment. New Environmentalist Criticism, Fiona BECKET et Terry GIFFORD (dir.)

BECKET, Fiona et Terry GIFFORD [dir.], Culture, Creativity and Environment. New Environmentalist Criticism, Amsterdam / New York, Rodopi (Nature, Culture and Literature), 2007, 258 p.
ISBN 978-90-420-2250-8


RÉSUMÉ

Culture, Creativity and Environment: New Environmentalist Criticism is a collection of new work which examines the intersection between philosophy, literature, visual art, film and the environment at a time of environmental crisis. This book is unusual in the way in which the ‘imaginative', ‘creative', element is privileged, notwithstanding the creativity of rigorous cultural criticism. Genuinely interdisciplinary, this book aims to be inclusive in its discussions of diverse cultural media (different literary genres, art forms and film for instance), which offer thoughtful and thought-provoking critiques of our relationships with the environment. Our ability to transcend the ethical and aesthetic categories and discourses that have contributed to our alienation from our environment is dependant upon an enlargement of our imaginative capacities. In a modest way this book might contribute to what Ted Hughes, speaking of the imagination of each new child, described as “nature's chance to correct culture's error”.


TABLE DES MATIÈRES

Fiona BECKET and Terry GIFFORD: Introduction
Val PLUMWOOD: Journey to the Heart of Stone
John PARHAM: What is (ecological) ‘nature'? John Stuart Mill and the Victorian Perspective
Judith RUGG: Fear and Flowers in Anya Gallaccio's Forest Floor, Keep off the Grass, Glaschu and Repens
Hannes BERGTHALLER: Like a Ship to be Tossed: Emersonian Environmentalism and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping
Gillian RUDD: In the Mirror of Middle Earth: Langland's use of the world as a book and what we can make of it
Greg GARRARD: Poodles and Curs: Eugenic Comedy in Ibsen's An Enemy of the People
Axel GOODBODY: The Hunter as Nature-Lover: Idyll, aggression and ecology in the German animal stories of Otto Alscher
Graham HUGGAN: Postcolonialism, Ecocriticism and the Animal in Recent Canadian Fiction
Matthew JARVIS: Barry MacSweeney's Moorland Romance
Judith TUCKER: Painting Landscape: Mediating Dislocation
Guinevere NARRAWAY: Modernity and the Politics of Place in Luis Trenker's Der verlorene Sohn
Louise WESTLING: Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty: Ecopoetics and the Problem of Humanism
Notes on Contributors
Index