The literature of waste : material ecopoetics and ethical matter /: material ecopoetics and ethical matter. ([2015])
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- The literature of waste : material ecopoetics and ethical matter /: material ecopoetics and ethical matter. ([2015])
- Main Title:
- The literature of waste : material ecopoetics and ethical matter
- Further Information:
- Note: Susan Signe Morrison.
- Authors:
- Morrison, Susan Signe, 1959-
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Waste-ern Literary Canon in the Waste-ern Tradition; PART I: TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL: APPROACHES TO DISCIPLINING WASTE; 1. Codification: The Anxiety of Ambiguity; 2. The Fragmented and Corruptible Body: Gendered Waste; 3. The Civilizing Process: Divisive Divisions; 4. Memory and Narrative: Ruins, Nostalgia, and Ghosts; 5. Failed Source Reduction: Conspicuous Consumption and the Inability to Minimize; 6. Urban Myths: The Civilized and Pristine City-Body; 7. Interiorized Waste: Sin and Metaphysical Meaninglessness; 8. The Toxic Metaphor of Wasted Humans: Those Filthy Cleaners Who Scrub Us Spotless; PART II: ENERGY RECOVERY AND THE DYNAMIC POWER OF THINGS; 9. The Secret Life of Objects: The Audacity of Thingness and the Poignancy of Materiality; 10. Trash Meditation: The Arts of Transience and Proximity; PART III: RECYCLING AND COMPOSTING: FORM AS RESTITUTION; 11. Waste Aesthetics: Puns, Litter-ature, and Intertextuality; 12. Gleaning Aesthetics: Poetry as Communal Salvage; PART IV: SOURCE REDUCTION AND REUSE: COMPASSION THROUGH GENEROUS METAPHOR; 13. Compost Aesthetics: The Poet[h]ics of Metaphor; 14. Poetry as Homeopathy: The Poet as Ragpicker;
- Publisher Details:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 809.93358
Literature and society
Refuse and refuse disposal in literature
Waste (Economics) in literature
Consumption (Economics) in literature
Recycling (Waste, etc.)
Ecocriticism
Excess (Philosophy)
European/English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
General
American/General
Cultural studies
Literature: history & criticism
Literary studies: general - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781137394477
1137394471 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781137405661
- Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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