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301	"The earth is a tomb and man a fleeting vapour": The Roots of Climate Change in Early American Literature Keeler, Kyle B. 10 April 2018 (has links) No description available. Environmental Studies Literature Ecology Climate Change American Literature Native Americans Native American Studies Native Studies Climate Change Anthropocene American Indians King Philips War Metacomet Lydia Maria Child Hobomok James Fenimore Cooper The Last of the Mohicans Native Americans Settler Colonialism Ecocriticism French and Indian War New Materialism
302	Xenotopia: Death and Displacement in the Landscape of Nineteenth-Century American Authorship Lewis, Darcy Hudelson 12 1900 (has links) This dissertation is an examination of the interiority of American authorship from 1815–1866, an era of political, social, and economic instability in the United States. Without a well-defined historical narrative or an established literary lineage, writers drew upon death and the American landscape as tropes of unity and identification in an effort to define the nation and its literary future. Instead of representing nationalism or collectivism, however, the authors in this study drew on landscapes and death to mediate the crises of authorial displacement through what I term "xenotopia," strange places wherein a venerated American landscape has been disrupted or defamiliarized and inscribed with death or mourning. As opposed to the idealized settings of utopia or the environmental degradation of dystopia, which reflect the positive or negative social currents of a writer's milieu, xenotopia record the contingencies and potential problems that have not yet played out in a nation in the process of self-definition. Beyond this, however, xenotopia register as an assertion of agency and literary definition, a way to record each writer's individual and psychological experience of authorship while answering the call for a new definition of American literature in an indeterminate and undefined space. authorship land landscape death mortality deathscape nineteenth century Washington Irving William Cullen Bryant Mary Prince Nat Turner Edgar Allan Poe Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Margaret Junkin Preston Emily Dickinson xenotopia dystopia defamiliarization nature ecocriticism sustainability literary marketplace environment literary history indeterminacy antebellum early national black African-American Civil War American Studies Death in literature Landscapes in literature nineteenth century (dates CE)
303	Arboreal thresholds - the liminal function of trees in twentieth-century fantasy narratives Potter, Mary-Anne 09 1900 (has links) Trees, as threshold beings, effectively blur the line between the real world and fantastical alternate worlds, and destabilise traditional binary classification systems that distinguish humanity, and Culture, from Nature. Though the presence of trees is often peripheral to the main narrative action, their representation is necessary within the fantasy trope. Their consistent inclusion within fantasy texts of the twentieth century demonstrates an enduring arboreal legacy that cannot be disregarded in its contemporary relevance, whether they are represented individually or in collective forests. The purpose of my dissertation is to conduct a study of various prominent fantasy texts of the twentieth century, including the fantasy works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Robert Holdstock, Diana Wynne Jones, Natalie Babbitt, and J.K. Rowling. In scrutinising these texts, and drawing on insights offered by liminal, ecocritical, ecofeminist, mythological and psychological theorists, I identify the primary function of trees within fantasy narratives as liminal: what Victor Turner identifies as a ‘betwixt and between’ state (1991:95) where binaries are suspended in favour of embracing potentiality. This liminality is constituted by three central dimensions: the ecological, the mythological, and the psychological. Each dimension informs the relationship between the arboreal as grounded in reality, and represented in fantasy. Trees, as literary and cinematic arboreal totems are positioned within fantasy narratives in such a way as to emphasise an underlying call to bio-conservatorship, to enable a connection to a larger scope of cultural expectation, and to act as a means through which human self-awareness is developed. / English Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (English) Liminality Fantasy literature Arboreal Trees Forests J.R.R. Tolkien The lord of the rings C.S. Lewis The chronicles of Narnia Robert Holdstock Ryhope wood Diana Wynne Jones Hexwood J.K. Rowling Harry Potter Natalie Babbitt Tuck everlasting James Cameron Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari Ursula K. Le Guin Julia Kristeva Ecocriticism Ecofeminism Other Mythology Tree of life Eco-cinema 823.91 Potter, Harry (Fictitious character) Trees in literature Ecocriticism in literature Ecofeminism in literature Ecofiction Liminality in literature Forests in literature
304	Reimagining Movements: Towards a Queer Ecology and Trans/Black Feminism Benavente, Gabriel 30 March 2017 (has links) This thesis seeks to bridge feminist and environmental justice movements through the literature of black women writers. These writers create an archive that contribute towards the liberation of queer, black, and transgender peoples. In the novel Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler constructs a world that highlights the pervasive effects of climate change. As climate change expedites poverty, Americans begin to blame others, such as queer people, for the destruction of their country. Butler depicts the dangers of fundamentalism as a response to climate change, highlighting an imperative for a movement that does not romanticize the environment as heteronormative, but a space where queers can flourish. Just as queer and environmental justice movements are codependent on one another, feminist movements cannot be separate from black and transgender liberation. This thesis will demonstrate how writers, such as Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Angela Davis, and Janet Mock, help establish a feminism that resists the erasure of black and transgender people. ecocriticism contemporary literature speculative fiction science fiction queer theory feminism english octavia butler janet mock toni morrison audre lorde climate change environmental justice african american activism transgender parable of the talents queer ecology African American Studies American Literature American Politics American Studies Arts and Humanities Continental Philosophy Ecology and Evolutionary Biology English Language and Literature Environmental Studies Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Feminist Philosophy Other Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Religion
305	The Buddhist Coleridge: Creating Space for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner within Buddhist Romantic Studies Pacheco, Katie 27 June 2013 (has links) The popularization of academic spaces that combine Buddhist philosophy with the literature of the Romantic period – a discipline I refer to as Buddhist Romantic Studies – have exposed the lack of scholarly attention Samuel Taylor Coleridge and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner have received within such studies. Validating Coleridge’s right to exist within Buddhist Romantic spheres, my thesis argues that Coleridge was cognizant of Buddhism through historical and textual encounters. To create a space for The Rime within Buddhist Romantic Studies, my thesis provides an interpretation of the poem that centers on the concept of prajna, or wisdom, as a vital tool for cultivating the mind. Focusing on prajna, I argue that the Mariner’s didactic story traces his cognitive voyage from ignorance to enlightenment. By examining The Rime within the framework of Buddhism, readers will also be able to grasp the importance of cultivating the mind and transcending ignorance. Romanticism Romantic poets Buddhism Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner dualism Ecocriticism Zen meditation transcendence albatross animal rights environmental rights green anthropocentrism prajna wisdom enlightenment ignorance ethics ahimsa Buddha Buddhist Arts and Humanities Chinese Studies Christianity Comparative Methodologies and Theories English Language and Literature Ethics and Political Philosophy Ethics in Religion Literature in English, British Isles Other Arts and Humanities Other English Language and Literature Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures Other Religion Philosophy Philosophy of Mind Practical Theology Religion
306	Compounding the Problem? : Gated Communities in Climate and Environmental Disaster Fiction / Att bygga in problem? : Grindsamhällen i berättelser om klimat- och miljökatastrofer Walsh, Ryan Nicholas January 2023 (has links) The gated community motif occurs frequently within climate and environmental disaster fiction. This thesis investigates its occurrence across three media to establish how the gated community mode of living, as rendered in post-apocalyptic speculative fiction, responds to the threat and consequences of climate and environmental crisis. This thesis combines recent urban studies scholarship with ecocritical theory to analyse the gated communities present in Octavia E. Butler’s novels, The Parable of the Sower and The Parable of the Talents, Neil Blomkamp’s film, Elysium, and Naughty Dog’s video games, The Last of Us and The Last of Us: Part II. Comparative analysis of the motif in each primary narrative reveals how disaster exacerbates the security and segregation this mode of settlement makes possible, resulting in a pronounced Othering of outsiders to these communities. This essay concludes that the boundaries of these speculative gated communities come to symbolise the borders Global North, which rhetorically and physically exclude the migrant Other. As most of the gated communities in these narratives experience catastrophe and collapse at the hands of those they refuse to accept, the texts appear to warn us to expect similar results unless issues of climate justice are not addressed by the Global North today. / Grindsamhället (eng. gated community) är ett vanligt förekommande motiv i berättelser om klimat- och miljökatastrofer. Den här uppsatsen undersöker motivet i tre medietyper för att diskutera hur grindsamhället som samhällsform porträtteras i postapokalyptiskt spekulativ fiktion, och hur det ses svara på klimat- och miljö- krisernas hot och konsekvenser. Uppsatsen kombinerar ekokritisk teori med modern forskning inom urbana studier för att analysera grindsamhällen som förekommer i romanerna The Parable of the Sower och The Parable of the Talents av Octavia E. Butler, Neil Blomkamps film Elysium och Naughty Dogs datorspel The Last of Us och The Last of Us: Part II. Komparativ analys av motivet i de primära berättelserna ger vid handen hur katastrofer förvärrar den säkerhet och segregation som samhälls- formen möjliggör, vilket resulterar i en uttalad syn på personer utanför samhällena som Andra. Uppsatsen slår fast att gränserna för de spekulativa grindsamhällena sym- boliserar gränserna mellan det globala nord och syd, vilket retoriskt och fysiskt ute- stänger migranter från syd och konstruerar dem som Andra. Eftersom de flesta grindsamhällen i berättelserna drabbas av katastrof och kollaps på grund av de människor som man vägrar släppa in tycks texterna varna oss för att vi kan förvänta oss något liknande om den globala norden inte ser till att hantera frågor om klimaträttvisa idag. Octavia E. Butler The Parable of the Sower The Parable of the Talents Naughty Dog The Last of Us The Last of Us: Part II Neil Blomkamp Elysium ecocriticism post-apocalypse critical dystopia climate change criticism gated community urban studies agency the Other video game studies ergodic literature. Octavia E. Butler The Parable of the Sower The Parable of the Talents Naughty Dog The Last of Us The Last of Us: Part II Neil Blomkamp Elysium ekokritik postapokalyps kritisk dystopi klimatfiktion grindsamhällen urbana studier agens det Andra spelforskning ergodisk litteratur. Specific Literatures Litteraturstudier

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