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oapen-20.500.12657-312732021-11-15T08:21:58Z Literature and sustainability Johns-Putra, Adeline Squire, Louise Parham, John Literature Literature Sustainability Environmentalism History Literacy Criticism Thorium bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism Sustainability has become a key socio-political issue over recent years. However, whilst the literary-critical community has advanced enthusiastically on an exciting range of environmentally-based analyses (most obviously through the work of ecocriticism), its response specifically to sustainability—as an attempt to reconceptualise the way we live, as an idea with a particular history, and as a ubiquitous term driven through over-use to near meaninglessness—has been extremely limited. The basic idea of the volume is to make a start on filling this gap. Split into four sections: Historicising sustainability, Discourses of sustainability, The sustainability of literature, Sustainability in literature – it has some very good contributors, and starts off with an introduction about the history of the term, looks at its beginnings in the C19th, and goes onto show how contemporary authors are dealing with it including Jeanette Winterson, Michel Houellebecq, Margaret Atwood and Amitav Ghosh. 2017-07-01 23:55:55 2020-03-12 03:00:30 2020-04-01T13:29:25Z 2020-04-01T13:29:25Z 2017-04-30 book 632974 OCN: 1016369416 9781526107633 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31273 eng application/pdf n/a 632974.pdf Manchester University Press 10.2307/j.ctt1wn0s7q 100065 10.2307/j.ctt1wn0s7q 6110b9b4-ba84-42ad-a0d8-f8d877957cdd b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781526107633 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Manchester 100065 KU Select 2016 Front List Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Sustainability has become a key socio-political issue over recent years. However, whilst the literary-critical community has advanced enthusiastically on an exciting range of environmentally-based analyses (most obviously through the work of ecocriticism), its response specifically to sustainability—as an attempt to reconceptualise the way we live, as an idea with a particular history, and as a ubiquitous term driven through over-use to near meaninglessness—has been extremely limited. The basic idea of the volume is to make a start on filling this gap. Split into four sections: Historicising sustainability, Discourses of sustainability, The sustainability of literature, Sustainability in literature – it has some very good contributors, and starts off with an introduction about the history of the term, looks at its beginnings in the C19th, and goes onto show how contemporary authors are dealing with it including Jeanette Winterson, Michel Houellebecq, Margaret Atwood and Amitav Ghosh.
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