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...Gary Handwerk Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global .By Ursula K. Heise. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. viii + 250 pp. University of Washington 2010 Reviews Murder by Accident: Medieval Theater, Modern Media, Critical Intentions...

...Vin Nardizzi [email protected] The Environmental Unconscious: Ecological Poetics from Spenser to Milton . By Steven Swarbrick . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2023 . 336 pp. Copyright © 2025 by University of Washington 2025 The Environmental Unconscious...

... of the potentially global significance of local environmental change emerged in concert with the environmental philosophy of his era, specifically the “back to the land” movement and theories of climatic determinism, and was developed in a 1909 short story, “The Machine Stops,” that he wrote while beginning Howards...

... developments with a wary eye, a young C. S. Lewis was increasingly skeptical of both the “extinction panic” that gripped his contemporaries and the utilitarian and environmentally exploitative imagination of planetary conquest they championed. In response Lewis penned Out of the Silent Planet (1938), a novel...

...Anahid Nersessian Recent calls to understand eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry as a response to deteriorating environmental conditions insist on a problematic continuity between our own time and the time of Romanticism. This essay explores the aesthetic and ethical possibilities...

... (2009). He is currently working on a book tentatively titled Office Affairs: Secretar- ies in the Modern Imagination. doi 10.1215/00267929-2010-027 Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global. By Ursula K. Heise. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008...

... (2009). He is currently working on a book tentatively titled Office Affairs: Secretar- ies in the Modern Imagination. doi 10.1215/00267929-2010-027 Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global. By Ursula K. Heise. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008...

... (2009). He is currently working on a book tentatively titled Office Affairs: Secretar- ies in the Modern Imagination. doi 10.1215/00267929-2010-027 Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global. By Ursula K. Heise. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008...

... (2009). He is currently working on a book tentatively titled Office Affairs: Secretar- ies in the Modern Imagination. doi 10.1215/00267929-2010-027 Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global. By Ursula K. Heise. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008...

.... Critique versus postcritique. These are just some of the polarities through which the last decade’s critical debates have expressed themselves, sealed in a millennial pressure cooker of financial crisis, technological upheaval, nationalist upsurge, and environmental precarity. Claims have varied...

... premise; from the social viewpoint Howells recognized that there was more to the problem. He came to an increasing awareness of the effects of environmental forces in shaping human behavior, and out of this grew his doctrine of com- plicity. Without denying either man’s freedom of action or his...

... . . . energy imaginary” (197), a premodern conception of climate and human world-making based on solar energy. For these reasons, Climate and the Making of Worlds should be greeted with enthusiasm by readers of poetry, environmental humanities scholars working on periods before 1900, and others looking...

... environmental concerns and what Crary sees as the West’s problematic worship of science, and the third focuses on (to borrow an earlier phrase from Crary [ 1990 ] himself) “techniques of the observer,” examining how online life undermines the somatic bases of human relationships and community: vision, face...

... 16 , no. 3 : 199 – 231 . projecteuclid.org/euclid.ss/1009213726 . Brooks Cleanth , and Warren Robert Penn . 1976 (1938). Understanding Poetry . 4th ed. Boston : Wadsworth . Buell Lawrence . 2007 . “ Egoblast Affects: The Emergence of U.S. Environmental Imagination...

... not itself an ecocritical project, Human Forms brings insights from the environmental humanities into the mainstream of literary and intellectual history, marking a new threshold in ecocriticism’s acceptance. As Duncan explains: Deep time, extending before and after human life, makes up the conceptual...

... change in the environmental humanities has brought paradigm-bending concepts of deep, geological time to the center of literary study. The profound reckoning with race, slavery, and colonialism underway in the United States and elsewhere has raised to prominence urgent questions about a people’s...

... author. More important, Groves’s ecocritical framework provides readers interested in environmental studies with a compelling new reason to engage with the German literary canon. Such readers will find in Groves a strong, nuanced voice with an impressive mastery of theoretical texts, from contemporary...

... conceive of the full impact of humanity’s effect on nature, Taylor aptly identifies (the American) George Perkins Marsh’s Man and Nature; or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (1864) as “the first modern environmental treatise” (2) and captures the novelty of Marsh’s insight: humanity itself...

... The Environmental Imagination (1995), which helped both invent and formulate the field of American environmental criticism, Lawrence Buell has more characteristically sought to set a quizzical theoretical frame around relatively traditional objects of study, thus inviting readers to see old forms in new ways...

... Rashmi Sadana ( 2012 ) that “there should be a movement to protect and preserve languages and mother tongues [in India], just as there is an environmental movement.” The Anthropocene, in the simplest terms, names the era in which the human has become a geological agent. For earth-systems scientists...