Ecocritical Shakespeare / Lynne Bruckner and Dan Brayton.

By:

Bruckner, Lynne Dickson

Contributor(s):

Brayton, Daniel

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Literary and scientific cultures of early modernityPublication details: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 280 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781409433224
1409433226

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

822.3/3 22

LOC classification:

PR3039 .B78 2011eb

Other classification:

18.05
HI 3325

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Contents:

List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword -- Greg Garrard; Introduction: Warbling Invaders; PART I: CONTEXTS FOR READING; 1 Vermin and Parasites: Shakespeare's Animal Architectures; 2 The Ecology of Self in Midsummer Night's Dream; 3 Gaia and the Great Chain of Being; 4 Is it Shakespearean Ecocriticism if it isn't Presentist?; PART II: FLORA, FAUNA, WEATHER, WATER; 5 "The Nobleness of Life": Spontaneous Generation and Excremental Life in Antony and Cleopatra; 6 The Well-Hung Shrew; 7 Felling Falstaff in Windsor Park.

Summary: The first collection devoted specifically to green Shakespeare, this volume engages with pressing environmental questions in order to provide a better understanding of where and how ecocritical readings should be situated. Ecocritical Shakespeare combines multiple critical perspectives, juxtaposing historicism and presentism as well as considering ecofeminism and pedagogy. Topics addressed include early modern representations of flora and fauna, human-animal relations, storms, the scala naturae, the marine environment, and pedagogy.

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The first collection devoted specifically to green Shakespeare, this volume engages with pressing environmental questions in order to provide a better understanding of where and how ecocritical readings should be situated. Ecocritical Shakespeare combines multiple critical perspectives, juxtaposing historicism and presentism as well as considering ecofeminism and pedagogy. Topics addressed include early modern representations of flora and fauna, human-animal relations, storms, the scala naturae, the marine environment, and pedagogy.

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