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  • Going Away to Think

    Engagement, Retreat, and Ecocritical Responsibility

    by Scott Slovic ...
    Scott Slovic has spent his life as a teacher, writer, environmental activist, and leader in the field of ecocritical literary studies. In Going Away to Think, he reflects on the twin motivations of his life—the commitment to do some good in the world and the impulse to enjoy life and participate fully in its most intense moments—and he examines the tension created by his efforts to balance these ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Imagining Ecocatastrophe

    Reading Literary and Cultural Texts in the Global Context

    Edited by Scott Slovic, Joyjit Ghosh, Samit Kumar Maiti ...
    This volume examines scholarly perspectives on eco-imaginaries, focusing in particular on how eco-catastrophes have been represented in literature and different visual forms, including film, television and cartoons, among other cultural media. It draws on literary genres such as science fiction, climate fiction, speculative fiction, petrofiction, post-apocalyptic narratives and nuclear fiction to ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • The Story of My Heart

    by Richard Jefferies, Terry Tempest Williams, Brooke Williams, Scott Slovic ...
    **"The Williamses anchor Jefferies' profound inquiry to our churning world and illuminate their own passionate quests for truth and understanding."—BOOKLIST, starred reviewWhile browsing a Stonington, Maine, bookstore, Brooke Williams and Terry Tempest Williams discovered a rare copy** of an exquisite autobiography by nineteenth–century British nature writer Richard Jefferies, who develops his ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Currents of the Universal Being

    Explorations in the Literature of Energy

    Edited by Scott Slovic, James E. Bishop, Kyhl Lyndgaard ...
    Energy scholar Vaclav Smil wrote in 2003, “Tug at any human use of energy and you will find its effects cascading throughout society.” Too often public discussions of energy-related issues become gridlocked in debates concerning cost, environmental degradation, and the plausibility (or implausibility) of innovative technologies. But the topic of energy is much broader and deeper than these debates ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Wild Nevada

    Testimonies on Behalf of the Desert

    Edited by Roberta Moore, Scott Slovic ...
    For many people beyond Nevada’s borders, the state is no more than the nation’s desert dumping ground for dangerous waste. Others know it only for its hedonistic centers of gambling and entertainment. This scandal belies the extraordinary beauty and wonder of the state’s wilderness areas and the precious natural, aesthetic, and cultural resources to be found there.In Wild Nevada, editors Roberta ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Ecocritical Aesthetics

    Language, Beauty, and the Environment

    by Arnold Berleant, Greta Gaard, Janine DeBaise, Mark Luccarelli, Cynthia Miller, Tyler Nickl, Serpil Oppermann, Shaun Anne Tangney, Frank Stewart, Tim Hunt, Werner Bigell, Yuki Masami ...
    This lively collection of essays explores the vital role of beauty in the human experience of place, interactions with other species, and contemplation of our own embodied lives. Devoting attention to themes such as global climate change, animal subjectivity, environmental justice and activism, and human moral responsibility for the environment, these contributions demonstrate that beauty is not ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Medical-Environmental Humanities

    Edited by Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, Vidya Sarveswaran ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Handbooks
    Bringing together two parallel and occasionally intersecting disciplines - the environmental and medical humanities - this field-defining handbook reveals our ecological predicament to be a simultaneous threat to human health. The book:· Represents the first collection to bring the environmental humanities and medical humanities into conversation in a systematic way· Features contributions from a ... Read more

    $61.19 CAD

  • Nature and Literary Studies

    Edited by Peter Remien, Scott Slovic ...
    Series series Cambridge Critical Concepts
    Nature and Literary Studies supplies a broad and accessible overview of one of the most important and contested keywords in modern literary studies. Drawing together the work of leading scholars of a variety of critical approaches, historical periods, and cultural traditions, the book examines nature's philosophical, theological, and scientific origins in literature, as well as how literary ... Read more

    $122.99 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication

    Edited by Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, Vidya Sarveswaran ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    Ecocriticism and environmental communication studies have for many years co-existed as parallel disciplines, occasionally crossing paths but typically operating in separate academic spheres. These fields are now rapidly converging, and this handbook aims to reinforce the common concerns and methodologies of the sibling disciplines.The Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Unnatural Ecopoetics

    Unlikely Spaces in Contemporary Poetry

    by Sarah Nolan ...
    What constitutes an environment in American literature is an issue that has undergone much debate across environmental humanities in the last decade. In the field, some have argued that environments are markedly natural or wild sites while others contend literary spaces can be both wild and urban, or even cultural. Yet, few of the works produced to date have addressed the pronounced influence the ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Ecodisaster Imaginaries in India

    Essays in Critical Perspectives

    by Tajuddin Ahmed, Sharada Allamneni, Risha Baruah, Debajyoti Biswas, Sonalika Chaturvedi, Shruti Das, Joydip Ghosh, Samrat Laskar, Debabrata Modak, Dheeraj Pandey, Ashwarya Samkaria0, Devapriya Sanyal1, Tarakeshwar Senapati2, Dona Soman3, Sk Tarik Ali4, Renu Bhadola Dangwal5, Richa Joshi Pandey6, Roshan Raj Singh7, Goutam Buddha Sural8, Joyjit Ghosh9, Samit Kumar Maiti1, Scott Slovic3, Shreya Bhattacharji5 ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Ecodisaster Imaginaries in India: Essays in Critical Perspectives is a volume of critical essays that discuss and debate the literary and cultural representations of ecological/environmental disaster in India from the perspectives that are integral to postcolonial disaster studies and the environmental humanities. The essays offer theoretically informed readings of environmental fiction, ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

  • Ecocriticism in Taiwan

    Identity, Environment, and the Arts

    by Hannes Berthaller, Dean Anthony Brink, Kathryn Yalan Chang, Hueichu Chu, Hsinya Huang, Peter I-min Huang, Rose Hsui-li Juan, Yu-lin Lee, Iris Ralph, Robin Chen-hsing Tsai, Shu-fen Tsai, Ming-tu Yang, Shiuhhuah Serena Chou, Iping Liang ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Ecocriticism is a mode of interdisciplinary critical inquiry into the relationship between cultural production, society, and the environment. The field advocates for the more-than-human realm as well as for underprivileged human and non-human groups and their perspectives. Taiwan is one of the earliest centers for promoting ecocriticism outside the West and has continued to play a central role in ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD