The literature of waste : material ecopoetics and ethical matter /: material ecopoetics and ethical matter. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• 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.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.