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The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment

The degrading environment of the planet is something that touches everyone. This book offers an introductory overview of literary and cultural criticism that concerns environmental crisis in some form. Both as a way of reading texts and as a theoretical approach to culture more generally, ecocriticism is a varied and fast-changing set of practices which challenges inherited thinking and practice in the reading of literature and culture. This introduction defines what ecocriticism is, its methods, arguments and concepts, and will enable students to look at texts in a wholly new way. Boxed sections explain key critical terms and contemporary debates in the field with hands-on examples and comparisons. Timothy Clark's thoughtful approach makes this an ideal first encounter with environmental readings of literature.

Timothy Clark is a specialist in Romantic, Heideggerian and post-Heideggerian poetics and in environmental criticism. He has held appointments in Finland, Australia and now works in the English Department of the University of Durham. His books include Derrida, Heidegger, Blanchot: Sources of Derrida's Notion and Practice of Literature (Cambridge 1992, paperback edition 2008), The Theory of Inspiration: Composition as a Crisis of Subjectivity in Romantic and Post-Romantic Writing (1997, 2000), Charles Tomlinson (1999), Martin Heidegger () and The Poetics of Singularity: The Counter-Culturalist Turn in Heidegger, Derrida, Blanchot and the Later Gadamer (2005).

The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment

Timothy Clark

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Timothy Clark 2011

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First published 2011

Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge

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Clark, Timothy (Timothy John Andrew), 1958

The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment / Timothy Clark.

cm. (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-521-89635-1 (hardback) ISBN 978-0-521-72090-8 (paperback)

1. Ecocriticism. 2. Nature in literature. I. Title.

PN98.E36C53 2010

809.933553 dc22 2010042725

ISBN 978-0-521-89635-1 Hardback

ISBN 978-0-521-72090-8 Paperback

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Preface

This book offers an introductory overview of the arguments, methods and concepts of literary and cultural criticism that concern environmental crisis in some form; a body of thought and work that is both varied and changing fast. A working definition of the subject, sometimes also called ecocriticism, would be: a study of the relationship between literature and the physical environment , usually considered from out of the current global environmental crisis and its revisionist challenge to given modes of thought and practice .

Introductions to environmental criticism have usually taken the form of critical anthologies in which the diversity of the issues is represented by a loose plurality of essays by different people. This study aims, ambitiously, for a tighter synthesis. The model is the kind of lucid conceptual introduction more familiar to other schools of literary or cultural theory, a systematic overview of the critical methods and arguments engaged with the intellectual and ethical challenges of environmental issues. The sequence of twenty short chapters includes readings of specific texts, inset box sections outlining some important concept or debate, a list of further reading and some inset sections called quandaries, open invitations to further thought.

Environmental issues pose new questions to inherited modes of thought and argument. To try to conceptualise and engage the multiple factors behind the accelerating degradation of the planet is to reach for tools that must be remade even in the process of use. Ecocriticism is one site of this crucial intellectual transformation.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to David Carstairs for permission to use Roadside reserve. Thanks are also due to Richard Kerridge for a generous and helpful report on an earlier draft of this text; to Hilltop Publishing for permission to use the cover illustration by Judy Hammond for The Wind in the Pylons Volume I, written by Gareth Lovett Jones; and to Oxford University Press for permission to reuse Charles Schwartzs drawing of geese from Leopolds A Sand County Almanac (1949). Warm thanks are due to Ray Ryan and Maartje Scheltens of Cambridge University Press for their help and expertise.

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