Death-Facing Ecology in Contemporary British and North American Environmental Crisis Fiction
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Death-Facing Ecology in Contemporary British and North American Environmental Crisis Fiction

Ecological Death-facing in Contemporary British and North American Fiction

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Death-Facing Ecology in Contemporary British and North American Environmental Crisis Fiction

Ecological Death-facing in Contemporary British and North American Fiction

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication Page
  7. Table of Contents
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction: Thoughts Towards an Ecology of Death-Facing
  10. 1 A Crisis of Environment, a Crisis in Thought
  11. 2 Death-Denial, Death-Facing
  12. 3 Impasse, Paradox
  13. 4 Discursive Death, Material Death
  14. Conclusion: Imageries of the Future
  15. Index