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  1. Literature for a Changing Planet /
    Author: Puchner, Martin,
    Published: [2022]; ©2022
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press,, Princeton, NJ :

    Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastropheReading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddling while Rome burns. Yet, at this turning point... more

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    Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastropheReading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddling while Rome burns. Yet, at this turning point for the planet, scientists, policymakers, and activists have woken up to the power of stories in the fight against global warming. In Literature for a Changing Planet, Martin Puchner ranges across four thousand years of world literature to draw vital lessons about how we put ourselves on the path of climate change-and how we might change paths before it's too late.From the Epic of Gilgamesh and the West African Epic of Sunjata to the Communist Manifesto, Puchner reveals world literature in a new light-as an archive of environmental exploitation and a product of a way of life responsible for climate change. Literature depends on millennia of intensive agriculture, urbanization, and resource extraction, from the clay of ancient tablets to the silicon of e-readers. Yet literature also offers powerful ways to change attitudes toward the environment. Puchner uncovers the ecological thinking behind the idea of world literature since the early nineteenth century, proposes a new way of reading in a warming world, shows how literature can help us recognize our shared humanity, and discusses the possible futures of storytelling.If we are to avoid environmental disaster, we must learn to tell the story of humans as a species responsible for global warming. Filled with important insights about the fundamental relationship between storytelling and the environment, Literature for a Changing Planet is a clarion call for readers and writers who care about the fate of life on the planet.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Article (edited volume)
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780691230429
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    Parent title: Title is part of eBook package:: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English; De Gruyter
    Title is part of eBook package:: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022; De Gruyter
    Title is part of eBook package:: EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 English; De Gruyter
    Title is part of eBook package:: EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022; De Gruyter
    Title is part of eBook package:: Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022; De Gruyter
    Series: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities/Princeton University Press Lectures in European Culture ; ; 1
    Subjects: Climatic changes in literature.; Ecocriticism.; Literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature.
    Other subjects: Adventure Story (play).; Aeneid.; Age of Oil.; Antihero.; Aratta.; Author.; Book.; Caesar and Pompey.; City-state.; Climate change.; Colonial empire.; Colonialism.; Colonization.; Comparative literature.; Confucius.; Conquistador.; Critical reading.; Deep history.; Disaster.; Divine retribution.; Ecocriticism.; Ecology.; Economic globalization.; Edition (book).; Education.; Enkidu.; Enlil.; Environmental economics.; Epic of Gilgamesh.; Epic poetry.; Fan fiction.; Flood myth.; G. (novel).; Genre.; Global warming.; Globalization.; Hard Choices.; Headline.; Henry David Thoreau.; Hippie.; How It Happened.; Humbaba.; Immigration law.; Industrialisation.; Jataka tales.; Johannes Gutenberg.; Latin alphabet.; Latin literature.; Literary criticism.; Literary realism.; Literature.; Manifesto.; Mechanization.; Narrative.; New Narrative.; New media.; Novel.; Novelist.; Occupy Wall Street.; Odysseus.; Odyssey.; Of Education.; Orality.; Poetry.; Polyphemus.; Popol Vuh.; Preface.; Publication.; Publishing.; Ralph Waldo Emerson.; Refugee.; Renaissance humanism.; Right of asylum.; Save the Planet.; Scholarly method.; Scrutiny (journal).; Scrutiny.; Settlement movement.; Settler colonialism.; Social movement.; Sociocultural evolution.; Storytelling.; The Communist Manifesto.; The Realist.; The Various.; Think tank.; To This Day.; Trickster.; Unintended consequences.; Uruk.; Utnapishtim.; Wai Chee Dimock.; Western literature.; William H. McNeill (historian).; World economy.; World history.; World literature.; Writer.; Writing system.; Writing.
    Scope: 1 online resource (160 p.) :, 6 b/w illus.
  2. Natural Magic :
    Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science.
    Author: Bergland, Renée.
    Published: 2024.; ©2024.
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press,, Princeton :

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    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0-691-23529-5
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    Edition: 1st ed.
    Subjects: American literature; Literature and science; Nature in literature.; Philosophy of nature.; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century .
    Other subjects: Dickinson, Emily, (1830-1886); Darwin, Charles, (1809-1882.); Amherst.; Animals.; Atlantic.; Beagle.; Books.; Botany.; Cambridge University.; Century.; Charles Lyell.; Childhood.; Christian.; Coleridge.; Death.; Earth.; Education.; Edward Hitchcock.; Erasmus.; Evolution.; Experiments.; Family.; Flowers.; Friends.; Geology.; Girls.; Harriet Martineau.; Higginson.; History.; Hitchcock.; Human.; John Herschel.; Lectures.; Letter.; Love.; Magic.; Mary Lyon.; Mary Somerville.; Material.; Mount holyoke.; Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science.; Nature.; Origin species.; Philosophers.; Philosophy.; Plants.; Poem.; Poet.; Poetry.; Ralph Waldo Emerson.; Religion.; Religious.; Renée Bergland.; Romantic science.; Royal Society.; Scientific.; Scientist.; Species.; The Atlantic Monthly.; The Civil War.; Thomas Wentworth Higginson.; Voyage.; disenchantment.; herbarium.; natural selection.; poetry and science.; red in tooth and claw.; sexual selection.; survival of the fittest.; transmutation.; two cultures.; women in science.
    Scope: 1 online resource (441 pages)
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    Cover -- Contents -- Preface: An Orchis' Heart -- Introduction: An Enchanted World -- Chapter 1: Darwin and Dickinson, Childhood Portraits -- Chapter 2: Darwin the Naturalist: Shropshire, Edinburgh, Cambridge,1809-1831 -- Darwin, to Age 22 -- Chapter 3: Nature's People:Scientific Amherst: Amherst, 1830-1836 -- Dickinson, to Age 6 -- Chapter 4: Juggler, Geologist, Dark Horse: Aboard the Beagle,1832-1836 -- Darwin, Age 23-27 -- Chapter 5: Dickinson the Bold: Amherst, 1836-1847 -- Dickinson, Age 6-16 -- Chapter 6: The Leading Scientific Men: London and Amherst, 1836-1845 -- Chapter 7: Religion of Geology South Hadley, Amherst, 1847-1851 -- Dickinson, Age 16-20 -- Chapter 8: A Slow-Sailing Ship: Downe, Great Malvern, 1842-1851 -- Darwin, Age 33-42 -- Chapter 9: Excitement in the Village: Amherst, 1851-1857 -- Dickinson, Age 20-26 -- Chapter 10: On the Origin of Species: Downe, 1858-1860 -- Darwin, Age 49-51 -- Chapter 11: If You Saw a Bullet: Amherst, 1857-1861 -- Dickinson, Age 26-31 -- Chapter 12: Wild Experiment: Downe and Amherst, 1860-1862 -- Chapter 13: Melody or Witchcraft?: Amherst, 1862-1866 -- Chapter 14: Mutual Friends: Downe and Amherst, 1866-1882 -- Chapter 15: Perfectly Disinterested: Darwin's Last Days -- Chapter 16: Nature Is a Haunted House: Dickinson Faces Death -- Afterword: Hope Is a Strange Invention: Darwin and Dickinson in the Twenty-First Century -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliographic Note -- Bibliography -- Index.
  3. Enthusiast! :
    essays on modern American literature /
    Author: Herd, David,
    Published: 2007.; ©2007
    Publisher:  Manchester University Press ;, Manchester, UK ; ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave,, New York :

    This book takes enthusiasm to be a defining feature of American literature, showing how successive major writers – Melville, Thoreau, Pound, Moore, Frank O’Hara and James Schuyler – have modernized and re-modeled Emerson’s founding sense of... more

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    This book takes enthusiasm to be a defining feature of American literature, showing how successive major writers – Melville, Thoreau, Pound, Moore, Frank O’Hara and James Schuyler – have modernized and re-modeled Emerson’s founding sense of enthusiasm. The book presents the writer as enthusiast, showing how enthusiasm is fundamental to the composition and the circulation of literature. Enthusiasm, it is argued, is the way literary value is passed on. Starting with a brief history of enthusiasm from Plato to Kant and Emerson, the book features chapters on each of Melville, Thoreau, Pound, Moore, O’Hara, and Schuyler. Each chapter presents an aspect of the writer as enthusiast, the book as a whole charting the changing sense of literary enthusiasm from Romanticism to the present day. Lucidly written and combatively argued, the book will appeal to readers of American Literature or Modern Poetry, and to all those interested in the circulation of literary work.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1-5261-2511-0; 0-7190-9584-0
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    Subjects: Enthusiasm in literature.; American literature; Literature; Literature: History & Criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Literature: history & criticism; American literature.; Enthusiasm in literature.
    Other subjects: Ezra Pound.; Frank O'Hara.; Henry David Thoreau.; Immanuel Kant.; James Schuyle.; Marianne Moore.; Ralph Waldo Emerson.; Socrates.; William Penn.; cultural activism.; enthusiasm.; nearer testament.; polemic.; transmission of literature.; unbridled self.
    Scope: 1 online resource (212 pages) .
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    First published: 2007.

    Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-207) and index.

    Also available in print form.

    Introduction: a short essay on enthusiasm -- Sounding: Henry David Thoreau -- Ranting: Herman Melville -- Distributing: Ezra Pound -- Presenting: Marianne Moore -- Circulating: Frank O'Hara -- Relishing: James Schuyler -- Afterword: enthusiasm and audit.
  4. The global remapping of American literature /
    Author: Giles, Paul.
    Published: 2010.
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press,, Princeton, N.J. :

    This book charts how the cartographies of American literature as an institutional category have varied radically across different times and places. Arguing that American literature was consolidated as a distinctively nationalist entity only in the... more

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    This book charts how the cartographies of American literature as an institutional category have varied radically across different times and places. Arguing that American literature was consolidated as a distinctively nationalist entity only in the wake of the U.S. Civil War, Paul Giles identifies this formation as extending until the beginning of the Reagan presidency in 1981. He contrasts this with the more amorphous boundaries of American culture in the eighteenth century, and with ways in which conditions of globalization at the turn of the twenty-first century have reconfigured the parameters of the subject. In light of these fluctuating conceptions of space, Giles suggests new ways of understanding the shifting territory of American literary history. ranging from Cotton Mather to David Foster Wallace, and from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Zora Neale Hurston. Giles considers why European medievalism and Native American prehistory were crucial to classic nineteenth-century authors such as Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville. He discusses how twentieth-century technological innovations, such as air travel, affected representations of the national domain in the texts of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein. And he analyzes how regional projections of the South and the Pacific Northwest helped to shape the work of writers such as William Gilmore Simms, José Martí, Elizabeth Bishop, and William Gibson. Bringing together literary analysis, political history, and cultural geography, The Global Remapping of American Literature reorients the subject for the transnational era.

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1-282-96451-8; 9786612964510; 1-4008-3651-4
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    Edition: Course Book
    Subjects: American literature; Geography in literature.; Boundaries in literature.; Space in literature.; Regionalism in literature.; National characteristics, American, in literature.
    Other subjects: American Civil War.; American Renaissance.; American South.; American broadcasting.; American culture.; American literary studies.; American literature.; Augustan American literature.; Cotton Mather.; Dave Eggers.; David Foster Wallace.; Don DeLillo.; Douglas Coupland.; Elizabeth Bishop.; European medievalism.; F. O. Matthiessen.; F. Scott Fitzgerald.; Flix Guattari.; Gary Snyder.; Gertrude Stein.; Gilles Deleuze.; Jos Mart.; Magnalia Christi Americana.; Nathaniel Hawthorne.; Native Americans.; New England.; Pacific Northwest.; Philip Roth.; Phillis Wheatley.; Ralph Waldo Emerson.; Richard Brautigan.; South America.; Timothy Dwight.; Toni Morrison.; U.S. national identity.; Ursula Le Guin.; Voice of America.; Wallace Stevens.; William Dean Howells.; William Faulkner.; William Gibson.; William Gilmore Simms.; Zora Neale Hurston.; allegory.; antebellum narratives.; cartography.; deterritorialization.; electronic media.; extravagance.; geography.; globalization.; liberal democracy.; medieval American literature.; medievalism.; metaregionalism.; modernism.; narratives.; national space.; place.; plantations.; poetry.; pseudo-geography.; regionalism.; social boundaries.; space.; technological innovations.; transnationalism.
    Scope: 1 online resource (340 p.)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Issued also in print.

    Introduction: the deterritorialization of American literature -- Part one: Temporal latitudes. Augustan American literature: an aesthetics of extravagance; medieval American literature: antebellum narratives and the "map of the infinite" -- Part two: The boundaries of the nation. The arcs of modernism: geography as allegory; suburb, network, homeland: national space and the rhetoric of broadcasting -- Part three: Spatial longitudes. Hemispheric parallax: South America and the American South; metaregionalism: the global pacific northwest -- Conclusion: American literature and the question of circumference.
  5. Xenocitizens :
    Illiberal Ontologies in Nineteenth-Century America /
    Author: Berger, Jason,
    Published: [2020]; ©2020
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press,, New York, NY :

    In Xenocitizens, Jason Berger returns to the antebellum United States in order to challenge a scholarly tradition based on liberal–humanist perspectives. Through the concept of the xenocitizen, a synthesis of the terms “xeno,” which connotes alien or... more

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    In Xenocitizens, Jason Berger returns to the antebellum United States in order to challenge a scholarly tradition based on liberal–humanist perspectives. Through the concept of the xenocitizen, a synthesis of the terms “xeno,” which connotes alien or stranger, and “citizen,” which signals a naturalized subject of a state, Berger uncovers realities and possibilities that have been foreclosed by dominant paradigms. Innovatively re-orienting our thinking about traditional nineteenth-century figures such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau as well as formative writers such as William Wells Brown, Martin R. Delany, Margaret Fuller, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, Xenocitizens glimpses how antebellum thinkers formulated, in response to varying forms of oppression and crisis, startlingly unique ontological and social models as well as unfamiliar ways to exist and to leverage change. In doing so, Berger offers us a different nineteenth century—pushing our imaginative and critical thinking toward new terrain.

     
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  6. Enthusiast! :
    essays on modern American literature /
    Author: Herd, David,
    Published: 2007.; ©2007
    Publisher:  Manchester University Press ;, Manchester, UK ; ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave,, New York :

    This book takes enthusiasm to be a defining feature of American literature, showing how successive major writers – Melville, Thoreau, Pound, Moore, Frank O’Hara and James Schuyler – have modernized and re-modeled Emerson’s founding sense of... more

     

    This book takes enthusiasm to be a defining feature of American literature, showing how successive major writers – Melville, Thoreau, Pound, Moore, Frank O’Hara and James Schuyler – have modernized and re-modeled Emerson’s founding sense of enthusiasm. The book presents the writer as enthusiast, showing how enthusiasm is fundamental to the composition and the circulation of literature. Enthusiasm, it is argued, is the way literary value is passed on. Starting with a brief history of enthusiasm from Plato to Kant and Emerson, the book features chapters on each of Melville, Thoreau, Pound, Moore, O’Hara, and Schuyler. Each chapter presents an aspect of the writer as enthusiast, the book as a whole charting the changing sense of literary enthusiasm from Romanticism to the present day. Lucidly written and combatively argued, the book will appeal to readers of American Literature or Modern Poetry, and to all those interested in the circulation of literary work.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1-5261-2511-0; 0-7190-9584-0
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Enthusiasm in literature.; American literature; Literature; Literature: History & Criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Literature: history & criticism; American literature.; Enthusiasm in literature.
    Other subjects: Ezra Pound.; Frank O'Hara.; Henry David Thoreau.; Immanuel Kant.; James Schuyle.; Marianne Moore.; Ralph Waldo Emerson.; Socrates.; William Penn.; cultural activism.; enthusiasm.; nearer testament.; polemic.; transmission of literature.; unbridled self.
    Scope: 1 online resource (212 pages) .
    Notes:

    First published: 2007.

    Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-207) and index.

    Also available in print form.

    Introduction: a short essay on enthusiasm -- Sounding: Henry David Thoreau -- Ranting: Herman Melville -- Distributing: Ezra Pound -- Presenting: Marianne Moore -- Circulating: Frank O'Hara -- Relishing: James Schuyler -- Afterword: enthusiasm and audit.