Ecology without nature : rethinking environmental aesthetics / Timothy Morton.

Main entry:

Morton, Timothy, 1968- author.

Title & Author:

Ecology without nature : rethinking environmental aesthetics / Timothy Morton.

Edition:

First Harvard University Press paperback edition.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2009.

Description:

viii, 249 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Toward a theory of ecological criticism -- The art of environmental language: "I can't believe it isn't nature!" -- Romanticism and the environmental subject -- Imagining ecology without nature.

Summary:

In 'Ecology Without Nature', Timothy Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature that most writers on the topic promote: they propose a new worldview, but their very zeal to preserve the natural world leads them away from the 'nature' they revere.

ISBN:

9780674034853 (pbk.)
0674034856 (pbk.)
9780674024342
0674024346

Subject:

Environmental literature History and criticism Theory, etc.
English literature History and criticism.
American literature History and criticism.
Ecology in literature.
Environmentalism Philosophy.
Nature in literature.
Philosophy in literature.
Romanticism.
Littérature anglaise Histoire et critique.
Environnementalisme Philosophie.
Nature dans la littérature.
Philosophie dans la littérature.
Romantisme.
romanticism (form of expression)
Literature.
American literature
English literature

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 297218
Call No.: BIB 243538
Status: Available

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