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Beschreibung
The literary field of ecocriticism appraises texts from the perspective of the natural world, its biosystems, its animals (human and otherwise), and its ecological interconnections. Exploring a range of contemporary American novelists whose narratives resonate with numerous ecological challenges, this work examines humankind's relationship with the environment in the context of Judeo-Christian theological views. It demonstrates how characters from novels such as John Updike's Rabbit Run, DeLillo's White Noise, Toni Morrison's Paradise, and Cormac McCarthy's The Road take neopastoral journeys to rediscover an innovative relationship with nature and religion. While some are successful, others turn away from the landscape's spirituality, retreating into technological inventions. The journeys of these fictional American heroes, this volume shows, mirror ongoing, theological, nuclear age convictions.
The literary field of ecocriticism appraises texts from the perspective of the natural world, its biosystems, its animals (human and otherwise), and its ecological interconnections. Exploring a range of contemporary American novelists whose narratives resonate with numerous ecological challenges, this work examines humankind's relationship with the environment in the context of Judeo-Christian theological views. It demonstrates how characters from novels such as John Updike's Rabbit Run, DeLillo's White Noise, Toni Morrison's Paradise, and Cormac McCarthy's The Road take neopastoral journeys to rediscover an innovative relationship with nature and religion. While some are successful, others turn away from the landscape's spirituality, retreating into technological inventions. The journeys of these fictional American heroes, this volume shows, mirror ongoing, theological, nuclear age convictions.
Über den Autor
Joan Anderson Ashford lives in Conyers, Georgia, where she teaches Bible studies and writing classes.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword by Randy Malamud
Introduction

1. Freud, Bakhtin, and Rabbit: An Ecocritical Look at Totem, Animism, and the Rogue in John Updike's Rabbit, Run

2. And the Word Was Made Metaphor: Oedipa's Religious Instant in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49

3. Nature, God, and Politics: Deep Ecology and Spinozan Theory in Bernard Malamud's The Fixer

4. Apocalypse Visited: Toxic Consciousness in Don DeLillo's White Noise

5. Re- Weaving Master Metaphors in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead

6. Interlocking Pillars of Oppression: Ecofeminist Theology in Toni Morrison's Paradise

7. Theories of Ecotheology in Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer

8. Sophia's Table and Nuclear Narrative in Cormac McCarthy's The Road
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Details
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika, Importe
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780786469741
ISBN-10: 0786469749
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Ashford, Joan Anderson
Hersteller: McFarland
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Joan Anderson Ashford
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.05.2012
Gewicht: 0,349 kg
Artikel-ID: 127900224