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  title info:
    title: Ecology without culture
    sub title: aesthetics for a toxic world
  name:
    name part: Marran, Christine L.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mnu
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 182 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  abstract: "Cultures have long defined themselves through biological elements to prove their strength and longevity, from cherry blossoms in Japan to amber waves of grain in the United States. In Ecology without Culture, Christine L. Marran introduces the concept of biotropes--material and semiotic figures that exist for human perception--to navigate how and why the material world has proven to be such an effective medium for representing culture. A bold and timely reconsideration of ecocriticism, Ecology without Culture insists on decentering questions of culture to highlight the materiality of poetry, film, and prose fiction. Marran argues that ecocriticism can critique ecological realities more effectively from outside the frame of human exceptionalism. Through discussions of primarily non-Anglophone literature, poetry, and cinema about toxic events in contemporary history-- from the depiction of slow violence in documentary by Tsuchimoto Noriaki to the powerful poetry of Ishimure Michiko--Marran argues that ecocriticism must find a way to engage culture without making the perpetuation of ethnos and anthropos the endgame of ecopolitics. Using the biological foundations and geological time scales of textual worlds to more deeply critique cultural humanism, Marran ultimately contends that the chief stumbling block to ecological thinking is not the image of nature, but the image of culture"--
  note: Christine L. Marran.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Ecocriticism
  subject:
    topic: Ecology in literature
  subject:
    topic: Ecology in motion pictures
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
    topic: Asian
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Ecocriticism
  subject:
    topic: Ecology in literature
  subject:
    topic: Ecology in motion pictures
  classification: PN98.E36 M37 2017
  classification: 809/.9336
  classification: LIT008000
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Ecology without culture
    name:
      name part: Marran, Christine L.
    origin info:
      publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2017
    identifier: (DLC) 2017020230
  identifier: 9781517901592
  identifier: 1517901596
  identifier: 9781517901585
  identifier: 1517901588
  identifier: 2017001739
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170425
    record change date: 20180206155322.0
    record identifier: in00003919125
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng