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  • Foodscapes of Contemporary Japanese Women Writers

    An Ecocritical Journey around the Hearth of Modernity

    by Masami Yuki ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Translated from Japanese, this study exposes English-language scholars to the complexities of the relationship between food, culture, the environment, and literature in Japan. Yuki explores the systems of value surrounding food as expressed in four popular Japanese female writers: Ishimure Michiko, Taguchi Randy, Morisaki Kazue, and Nashiki Kaho. ... Read more

    $108.89 CAD

  • Ecocritical Aesthetics

    Language, Beauty, and the Environment

    by Arnold Berleant, Greta Gaard, Janine DeBaise, Mark Luccarelli, Cynthia Miller, Tyler Nickl, Serpil Oppermann, Shaun Anne Tangney, Frank Stewart, Tim Hunt, Werner Bigell, Yuki Masami ...
    This lively collection of essays explores the vital role of beauty in the human experience of place, interactions with other species, and contemplation of our own embodied lives. Devoting attention to themes such as global climate change, animal subjectivity, environmental justice and activism, and human moral responsibility for the environment, these contributions demonstrate that beauty is not ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Ishimure Michiko's Writing in Ecocritical Perspective

    Between Sea and Sky

    by Toyosato Mayumi, Iwaoka Nakamasa, Ikezawa Natsuki, Christine Marran, Livia Monnet, Karen Thornber, Watanabe Kyoji, Patrick D. Murphy ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    This collection of ecocritical essays is focused on the work of Japan’s foremost writer on environment and culture, Ishimure Michiko. Ishimure is known for her pioneering trilogy that exposed the Minamata Disease incident and the nature of modern industrial pollution. She is also regarded by many critics as Japan’s most original and important literary writer. Ishimure has written over 50 volumes ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD

  • Ecocriticism in Japan

    by Alex Bates, Koichi Haga, Ursula Heise, Daisuke Higuchi, Ronald Loftus, Margherita Long, Christine Marran, Kyoko Matsunaga, Livia Monnet, Marjorie Rhine, Shuji Takazawa, Toshiya Ueno, Caroline Wake, Doug Slaymaker ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    What can ecocriticism do when engaging with Japanese literature and culture? This edited volume Ecocriticism in Japan attempts to answer this question. The contributors place themselves inside the domestic fields of production of works of art and express their concerns and ideas for the English-speaking spheres of the world. Taking up subjects ranging from the eleventh-century novel The Tale of ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

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    Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

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  • Stuff

    by Daniel Miller ...
    Things make us just as much as we make things. And yet, unlike the study of languages or places, there is no discipline devoted to the study of material things. This book shows why it is time to acknowledge and confront this neglect and how much we can learn from focusing our attention on stuff.The book opens with a critique of the concept of superficiality as applied to clothing. It presents the ... Read more

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  • Landscape Theory

    Edited by Rachel DeLue, James Elkins ...
    Series series The Art Seminar
    Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology, yet there has been little consensus about how to understand the relationship between landscape and art. This book brings together more than fifty scholars from these multiple disciplines to establish new ways of thinking about landscape in art. ... Read more

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  • Symbols and Meaning

    A Concise Introduction

    by Mari Womack ...
    Womack offers a concise and easy-to-read overview of the power and meaning of symbols in all human societies. She describes how symbols_images, words, or behaviors with multi-layered meanings_are mechanism of communication. She demonstrates how we experience the power of symbols in all aspects of human life: birth, death, love, sexual desire, and the need for food and shelter. Womack investigates ... Read more

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  • The Handbook of Contemporary Animism

    by Graham Harvey ...
    Series series Acumen Handbooks
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    Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future

    by Bron Taylor ...
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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment

    by Timothy Clark ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    The degrading environment of the planet is something that touches everyone. This 2011 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 ... Read more

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