Ecocriticism can be described in very general terms as the investigation of the many ways in which culture and the environment are interrelated and conceptualized. Ecocriticism aspires to understand and often to celebrate the natural world, yet it does so indirectly by focusing primarily on written texts. Hailed as one of the most timely and provocative developments in literary and cultural studies of recent decades, it has also been greeted with bewilderment or scepticism by those for whom its aims and methods are unclear. This book seeks to bring into view the development of ecocriticism in the context of Canadian literary studies. Selections include work by Margaret Atwood, Northrop Frye, Sherrill Grace, and Rosemary Sullivan.
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Table of Contents
- Front Cover 160
- Series Page 3
- Full Cover Page 4
- Copyright Page 5
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgments 10
- Publication Information For Republished Essays 11
- Introduction: Ecocriticism Northof the Forty-ninth Parallel 14
- SECTION 1: NATURE AND NATION: BEFORE AND BEYOND THEMATIC CRITICISM 56
- 1: Selections from The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination (1971) 58
- 2: Selections from Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972) 68
- 3: La forêt or the Wilderness as Myth (1987) 86
- 4: Quest for the Peaceable Kingdom: Urban/Rural Codes in Roy, Laurence, and Atwood (1984) 98
- 5: Women in the Wilderness (1986) 116
- SECTION 2: THE EMERGENCE OF ECOCRITICISM IN CANADA 138
- 6: “Along the Line of Smoky Hills”: Further Steps towards an Ecological Poetics (1990) 140
- 7: So Big about Green (1991) 164
- 8: So Unwise about Green (1996) 172
- 9: Eruptions of Postmodernity: The Postcolonial and the Ecological (1993) 178
- 10: Contemporary Canadian Poetry from the Edge: An Exploration of Literary Ecocriticism (1995) 200
- 11: Nature’s Nation, National Natures? Reading Ecocriticism in a Canadian Context (1998) 222
- SECTION 3: READING CANADIAN LANDSCAPES 252
- 12: Nature Trafficking: Writing and Environment in the Western Canada–U.S. Borderlands 254
- 13: Calypso Trails: Botanizingon the Bruce Peninsula (2010) 282
- 14: Knowledge, Power, and Place: Environmental Politics in the Fiction of Matt Cohen and David Adams Richards (2007) 302
- SECTION 4: ENVIRONMENTS AND CROSS-CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS 328
- 15: Canadian Art according to Emily Carr: The Search for Indigenous Expression (2005) 330
- 16: “Mon pays, ce n’est pasun pays, c’est l’hiver”: Literary Representations of Nature and Ecocritical Thought in Quebec 352
- 17: Decolonizasian: Reading Asianand First Nations Relations in Literature (2008) 384
- SECTION 5: NEIGHBOURS UNKNOWN: ANIMALS IN CANADIAN LITERATURE 412
- 18: Selections from Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972) 414
- 19: Political Science: Realism in Roberts’s Animal Stories (1996) 424
- 20: The “I” in Beaver: Sympathetic Identification andSelf-Representation in Grey Owl’s Pilgrims of the Wild (2007) 442
- 21: The Ontology and Epistemology of Walking: Animality in Karsten Heuer’s Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd 462
- SECTION 6: IN FULL BLOOM:NEW DIRECTIONS IN CANADIAN THEORY 492
- 22: Poetics of the Semiosphere: Pataphysics, Biosemiotics, and Imaginary Solutions for Water (2011) 494
- 23: Literature and Geology: An Experiment in Interdisciplinary, Comparative Ecocriticism 530
- 24: The Dwelling Perspective in English-Canadian Drama 566
- Afterword: Ecocritical Futures 582
- Appendix: Taking Flight: From Little Grey Birds to The Goose 586
- Notes on the Contributors 602
- Index 606
- Back Cover 626