Material Ecocriticism

Auteur

Serenella Iovino is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Turin, Italy.

Serpil Oppermann is Professor of English at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.

Résumé
Offers new ways to analyze language and reality, human and nonhuman life, mind and matter, without falling into well-worn paths of thinking. Bringing ecocriticism closer to the material turn, this volume focuses on material forces and substances, the agency of things, processes, narratives and stories, and making meaning out of the world.

Contenu

Foreword: Storied Matter
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Introduction: Stories Come to Matter
Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann

Part I. Material Ecocriticism: Theories and Relations

1. From Ecological Postmodernism to Material Ecocriticism: Creative Materiality and Narrative Agency Serpil Oppermann

2. On the Limits of Agency: Notes on the Material Turn from a Systems-Theoretical Perspective
   Hannes Bergthaller

3. Creative Matter and Creative Mind: Cultural Ecology and Literary Creativity
   Hubert Zapf

4. Natural Play, Natural Metaphor and Natural Stories: Biosemiotic Realism
   Wendy Wheeler

5. The Ecology of Color: Goethe's Materialist Optics and Ecological Posthumanism Heather Sullivan

Part II. Narratives of Matter

6. Bodies of Naples: Stories, Matter, and the Landscapes of Porosity
   Serenella Iovino

7. When It Rains
   Lowell Duckert

8. Painful Material Realities, Avoidance, Ecophobia
   Simon C. Estok
9. Semiotization of Matter: A Hybrid Zone between Biosemiotics and Material Ecocriticism
   Timo Maran

Part III. Politics of Matter

10. Pro/Polis: Three Forays into the Political Lives of Bees
    Catriona Sandilands

11. Excremental Ecocriticism and the Global Sanitation Crisis Dana Phillips

12. Oceanic Origins, Plastic Activism, and New Materialism at Sea
    Stacy Alaimo
13. Meditations on Natural Worlds, Disabled Bodies, and a Politics of Cure
    Eli Clare

Part IV. Poetics of Matter

14. Corporeal Fieldwork and Risky Art: Peter Goin and the Making of Nuclear Landscapes
    Cheryll Glotfelty

15. Of Material Sympathies, Paracelsus, and Whitman
    Jane Bennett

16. Source of Life: Avatar, Amazonia, and an Ecology of Selves
    Joni Adamson

17. The Liminal Space between Things: Epiphany and the Physical
    Timothy Morton

Coda: Open Closure
A Diptych on Material Spirituality

18. Spirits that Matter: Pathways towards a Rematerialization of Religion and Spirituality
    Kate Rigby
19. Mindful New Materialisms: Buddhist Roots for Material Ecocriticism's Flourishing
    Greta Gaard

Afterword: The Commonwealth of Breath
David Abram

Works Cited
List of Contributors
Index