Books in the Studies in Literature, Culture, and the Environment / Studien zu Literatur, Kultur und Umwelt series

Through the burgeoning fields of Posthumanities and Environmental Humanities, this edition examines the changing conception of human subjectivity, agency, and citizenship as shaped by the dynamic interplays between nature, technology, science, and culture. The proposed ¿symbiotic turn¿, (the awareness of the multitude of interactions and mutual interdependencies among humans, non-humans and their environment) aspires to explore the complex recompositions of the ¿human¿ in the 21st century. By organizing and promoting interdisciplinary dialogue at multiple levels, both in theory and practice, Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies is suggested as a new narrative about the biosphere and technosphere, which is embodied literarily, philosophically, and artistically.

The eco-psychopathologies presented in these essays range from medieval literature to contemporary film. The romantic or gothic trope of getting lost in the forest, but also its recreational function (forest-bathing) reflect mental states humans develop when they step into the woodland.

In this book a renewed hermeneutics emerges from the transatlantic relationships between Spain and Latin America. For this book reconnects indigenous knowledge to Western thought; Amazonian, Andean, and African traditional wisdom to European contemporary ecological agenda; Cultural Studies to global environmental awareness.

Das Anthropozan mit der Idee der systemischen Zusammenhange von Mensch, Technologie und Umwelt ist durch Komplexitat und disproportionale Skalierungseffekte von planetarischem und tiefenzeitlichem Ausmass gekennzeichnet. Der Band zeigt, mit welchen Strategien Literatur und Kunst die Komplexitat des Anthropozan auf menschliches Mass beziehen.

This study proposes an eco-political reading of James Joyce's Ulysses by looking into four aspects of the environment that Joyce deals with in his modernist classic. By looking respectively into Joyce's writing of gardens, garbage, trees, and the pastoral, this book provides an interdisciplinary discussion between ecocriticism and Joyce studies.

Auf Basis des Ecocriticism analysiert der Band literarische Repräsentationen des Umweltwandels im 20./21. Jahrhundert. Im Zentrum stehen die engen Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Mensch und Umwelt sowie die Frage nach ästhetischen Möglichkeiten einer nicht-anthropozentrischen Darstellung von Natur. Die Beiträge nehmen die Auseinandersetzung mit gegenwärtigen Krisenphänomenen im Wechselspiel von Ökologie, Ökonomie und Gesellschaft in den Blick und betten die in den literarischen Texten artikulierten Phänomene ökologischen Wandels in ästhetische, historische und philosophische Kontexte ein. Wie hängen Risikobewusstsein und Handlungsoptionen zusammen? Was sind die Gründe der menschlichen Ignoranz von Umweltzerstörung? Welche Antworten auf die ökologische Krise können literarische Texte bieten?

This book applies the analytical methods of third-wave ecocriticism to selected twenty-first century Italian literary works. The author demonstrates that these works offer an invaluable opportunity to communicate meaningfully and accessibly the discomforting truths of global environmental change.

This book expounds fruitful ways of analysing matters of ecology, environments, nature, and the non-human world in a broad spectrum of material in French.