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Title: Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the Boundaries of Ecocriticism (Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism) by Karla Armbruster, Kathleen R. Wallace ISBN: 0813920132 Publisher: University of Virginia Press Pub. Date: June, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding, but dramatic lit deserves more
Comment: A fascinating, erudite collection, _Beyond Nature Writing_ contains some gems and is published in a truly beautiful edition. Especially worth reading are the essays by Glotfelty and Ulman--Ulman's being especially at the forefront of ecocriticism as it considers virtual and cyber environments. The digital worlds we as humans increasingly create and how we treat them (and what we place in their content) are going to have ethical implications on the world in which we live. Ulman's article thus comes at the right time--although it is by far not the only essay in here worth reading. One thing noticeably missing from this anthology, and ecocritism in general, is a lengthy consideration of dramatic literature. There is the essay by Sweeting, and that's good, but I got the (bad) feeling that this might be the first ecocritical essay on drama I've ever read. Although the problem lies more with the narrow interests of some ecocritics, imagine if this collection included only one essay on the novel. _Beyond Nature Writing_ would have challenged ecological criticism even greater by including more essays on drama, something ecocritics seem to neglect beyond _A Winter's Tale_. Perhaps Ulman's work on cyber-created environments could be used to revert to open eco-consideration of the word-based world of the stage. Maybe the next major ecocritical anthology will include at least two essays on drama! Overall, though, this collection is really worth reading and might just replace _The Ecocriticism Reader_ as the benchmark text in this area of criticism.
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Title: The Greening of Literary Scholarship: Literature, Theory and the Environment by Steven Rosedale, Steven Rosendale, Scott Slovic ISBN: 0877458030 Publisher: University of Iowa Press Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology by Cheryll Glotfelty, Harold Fromm ISBN: 0820317810 Publisher: University of Georgia Press Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Farther Afield in the Study of Nature-Oriented Literature by Patrick D. Murphy ISBN: 0813919061 Publisher: University of Virginia Press Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
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Title: The Song of the Earth by Jonathan Bate ISBN: 0674008189 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Isle Reader: Ecocriticism, 1993-2003 by Michael P. Branch, Scott Slovic, Patrick D. Murphy ISBN: 0820325171 Publisher: University of Georgia Press Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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