Literature and sustainability : concept, text and culture /: concept, text and culture. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Adeline Johns-Putra, John Parham and Louise Squire.
• Editors: Johns-Putra, Adeline, 1973-; Parham, John; Squire, Louise
• Contents: The millers' tales: sustainability, the arts and the watermill / Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Howard Thomas and Richard Marggraf Turley -- Sustenance from the past: precedents to sustainability in nineteenth-century literature and culture / John Parham -- Deep sustainability: ecopoetics, enjoyment and ecstatic hospitality / Kate Rigby -- Recycling materials, recycling lives: cardboard publishers in Latin America / Lucy Bell -- Sustainability after extinction: on last animals and future bison / Joshua Schuster -- The twilight of the Anthropocene: sustaining literature / Claire Colebrook -- Collapse, resilience, stability and sustainability in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy / Dana Phillips -- "The shadow of the future made all the difference": sustainability in Kim Stanley Robinson's Science in the Capital trilogy / Chris Pak -- The unsustainable aesthetics of sustainability: the sense of an ending in Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods / Adeline Johns-Putra -- A modest proposal for a less natural lifestyle: the paradoxes of sustainability and Michel Houellebecq's The Possibility of an Island / Hannes Bergthaller -- Jorie Graham's Sea Change: the poetics of sustainability and the politics of what we're sustaining / Matthew Griffiths -- Circles unrounded: sustainability, subject and necessity in Yann Martel's Life of Pi / Louise Squire.
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 253 pages)
• Subjects: 823.0093553; Ecology in literature; Environmentalism in literature; Sustainability; Literature and literary studies; Literature: history and criticism; Sustainability; Ecology in literature; Environmental literature; Environmentalism in literature; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1526107635; 9781526107633
• Related ISBNs: 0719099676; 9780719099670
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.
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