Elemental ecocriticism : thinking with earth, air, water, and fire /
For centuries, it was believed that all matter was composed of four elements, earth, air, water and fire in promiscuous combination, bound by love and pulled apart by strife. Elemental theory offered a mode of understanding materiality that did not center the cosmos around the human. Outgrown as a s...
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Eleven Principles of the Elements / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert
- Pyromena : Fire's Doing / Anne Harris
- Phlogiston / Steve Mentz
- Airy Something / Valerie Allen
- The Sea Above / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
- Muddy Thinking / Sharon O'Dair
- The Quintessence of Wit / Chris Barrett
- Wet? / Julian Yates
- Creeping Things : Spontaneous Generation and Material Creativity / Karl Steel
- Earth's Prospects / Lowell Duckert
- Elementality / Timothy Morton
- Elemental Relations at the Edge / Cary Wolfe
- Elemental Love in the Anthropocene / Stacy Alaimo
- Coda : Wandering Elements and Natures to Come / Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino.