The Literature of Waste - 9781137405661
Un libro in lingua di Morrison Susan Signe edito da Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
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Establishing the field of Waste Studies, a material ecocritical approach, The Literature of Waste traces literal and figurative waste in the western canon. The materiality of waste - as in landfills, trashcans, garbage dumps, compost piles - inevitably transforms into metaphor. Waste emerges out of various disciplines, such as anthropological codification, psychological repression of bodily decay, sociological civilizing process, historical garbaging of the past, economic conspicuous consumption, urban disposal of bodily waste, religious sin, and philosophical angst. Vibrant materialism disturbs the use of the metaphor of waste used to characterize people as disposable garbage. If we can read waste as possessing dynamic agency, how might that change the ethics of refuse-ing and ostracizing wasted humans? Poets, the ragpickers of litter-ature, cure homeopathically. Waste, Compost, and Gleaning Aesthetics acknowledge the poignancy of materiality by revealing the humanity we share.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: The Literature of Waste
- Sottotitolo: Material Ecopoetics and Ethical Matter
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Morrison Susan Signe
- Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
- Collana: Palgrave Macmillan (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 04 Giugno '15
- Genere: LITERARY CRITICISM
- Argomenti : Literature and society Refuse and refuse disposal in literature Waste (Economics) in literature
- Pagine: 330
- Dimensioni mm: 215 x 139 x 0
- ISBN-10: 113740566X
- EAN-13: 9781137405661