Environmental humanities on the brink : the vanitas hypothesis /

In this experimental work of ecocriticism, Vincent Bruyere confronts the seeming pointlessness of the humanities amidst spectacularly negative future projections of environmental collapse. The vanitas paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries dazzlingly depict heaps of riches alongside skulls, shells...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bruyère, Vincent (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023].
Subjects:	Ecocriticism. Vanitas (Art) Humanities.

Table of Contents:

Prologue : Of skulls and shells
Canvas
Debris
Toxic
Paper
Ark
Meat
Epilogue : Light.