Culture, Creativity and Environment: New Environmentalist CriticismBRILL, 2007 M01 1 - 260 pages 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”. |
Contents
Introduction | 7 |
Journey to the Heart of Stone | 17 |
What is ecological nature? John Stuart Mill and the Victorian Perspective | 37 |
Fear and Flowers in Anya Gallaccios Forest Floor Keep off the Grass Glaschu and Repens | 55 |
Emersonian Environmentalism and Marilynne Robinsons Housekeeping | 75 |
Langlands use of the world as a book and what we can make of it | 99 |
Eugenic Comedy in Ibsens An Enemy of the People | 115 |
Idyll aggression and ecology in the German animal stories of Otto Alscher | 135 |
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