Screen LibraryEcological Literature and the Critique of Anthropocentrism /
This book is an analysis of literary texts that question, critique, or subvert anthropocentrism, the notion that the universe and everything in it exists for humans. Bryan Moore examines ancient Greek and Roman texts; medieval to twentieth-century European texts; eighteenth-century French philosophy...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60738-2 |
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This book is an analysis of literary texts that question, critique, or subvert anthropocentrism, the notion that the universe and everything in it exists for humans. Bryan Moore examines ancient Greek and Roman texts; medieval to twentieth-century European texts; eighteenth-century French philosophy; early to contemporary American texts and poetry; and science fiction to demonstrate a historical basis for the questioning of anthropocentrism and contemplation of responsible environmental stewardship in the twenty-first century and beyond. Ecological Literature and the Critique of Anthropocent |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (XIV, 234 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9783319607382 |
| Index Number: | PN441 |
| CLC: | I106 |
| Contents: | 1 Introduction: Anthropocentrism, the Anthropocene, and the Apocalypse -- 2 The Earth as Pinprick: Some Early Western Challenges to Anthropocentrism -- 3 Lowering the Human Throne: European Literature to 1900 -- 4 Teleology, Ecology, and Unity in the French Enlightenment -- 5 Courses of Empire: Ecological Apocalypse in Early American Literature -- 6 Jeffers s Inheritors: Transhuman Magnificence in Late-Twentieth Century American Poetry -- 7 Antianthropocentrism and Science Fiction Part I: From Antiquity to World War II -- 8 Antianthropocentrism and Science Fiction Part II: After World War II |