The Literature of Waste
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-40566-1 (ISBN)
Susan Signe Morrison is Professor of English at Texas State University, USA.
Introduction: The Waste-ern Literary Canon in the Waste-ern Tradition PART I: TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL: APPROACHES TO DISCIPLINING WASTE 1. Codification: The Anxiety of Ambiguity 2. The Fragmented and Corruptible Body: Gendered Waste 3. The Civilizing Process: Divisive Divisions 4. Memory and Narrative: Ruins, Nostalgia, and Ghosts 5. Failed Source Reduction: Conspicuous Consumption and the Inability to Minimize 6. Urban Myths: The Civilized and Pristine City-Body 7. Interiorized Waste: Sin and Metaphysical Meaninglessness 8. The Toxic Metaphor of Wasted Humans: Those Filthy Cleaners Who Scrub Us Spotless PART II: ENERGY RECOVERY AND THE DYNAMIC POWER OF THINGS 9. The Secret Life of Objects: The Audacity of Thingness and the Poignancy of Materiality 10. Trash Meditation: The Arts of Transience and Proximity PART III: RECYCLING AND COMPOSTING: FORM AS RESTITUTION 11. Waste Aesthetics: Puns, Litter-ature, and Intertextuality 12. Gleaning Aesthetics: Poetry as Communal Salvage PART IV: SOURCE REDUCTION AND REUSE: COMPASSION THROUGH GENEROUS METAPHOR 13. Compost Aesthetics: The Poet[h]ics of Metaphor 14. Poetry as Homeopathy: The Poet as Ragpicker
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 4.6.2015 |
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Zusatzinfo | XIII, 330 p. |
Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
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ISBN-10 | 1-137-40566-X / 113740566X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-137-40566-1 / 9781137405661 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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