Featured Books & eBooks - Fine Arts, Literature & Criticism
An Introduction to Sustainability and Aesthetics: The Arts & Design for the Environment by ISBN: 9781627345255Publication Date: 2015With an introduction by Christopher Crouch and an afterword by John Thackara, this collection of essays touches on a wide variety of issues related to aesthetics and sustainability and shares a multitude of disciplinary and cultural perspectives. Through this mosaic of opinion, the authors suggest that the role of the aesthetic is an active one in developing an ecologically, economically and culturally healthy society.
Eco-Aesthetics: Art, Literature and Architecture in a Period of Climate Change by Call Number: BH301.E58 M55ISBN: 9781472524607Publication Date: 2014By moving beyond traditional aesthetic categories (beauty, the sublime, the religious), Eco-Aesthetics takes an inter-disciplinary approach bridging the arts, humanities and social sciences and explores what aesthetics might mean in the 21st century. It is one in a series of new, radical aesthetics promoting debate, confronting convention and formulating alternative ways of thinking about art practice. There is no doubt that the social and environmental spheres are interconnected but can art and artists really make a difference to the global environmental crisis?
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Asuncion, Josep. The Complete Book of Papermaking. (2003) - TS1105 .A8513
Grande, John. Art Nature Dialogues: Interviews with Environmental Artists. (2004) - eBook
Imagining the Future of Climate Change by Call Number: QC902.9 .S77ISBN: 9780520294448Publication Date: 2018From the 1960s to the present, activists, artists, and science fiction writers have imagined the consequences of climate change and its impacts on our future. Authors such as Octavia Butler and Leslie Marmon Silko, movie directors such as Bong Joon-Ho, and creators of digital media such as the makers of the Maori web series “Anamata Future News” have all envisioned future worlds during and after environmental collapse. Today, real-world social movements helmed by Indigenous people and people of color are leading the way against the greatest threat to our environment: the fossil fuel industry.
Asian American Literature and the Environment by Call Number: PS153.A84 A74ISBN: 9780415713238Publication Date: 2014Extending and renewing Asian American studies and ecocriticism by drawing the two fields into deeper dialogue, this ground-breaking transnational study brings Asian American writers to the center of ecocritical studies. This collection demonstrates the distinctiveness of Asian American writers’ positions on topics of major concern today, including environmental justice, identity and the land, war environments, consumption, urban environments, and the environment and creativity.
Zoopoetics: Animals and the Making of Poetry by Call Number: PN1083.A5 M64ISBN: 9780739186626Publication Date: 2013Zoopoetics assumes Aristotle was right, that the general origin of poetry resides, in part, in the instinct to imitate. But it is an innovative imitation. An exploration of the oeuvres of Walt Whitman, E. E. Cummings, W. S. Merwin, and Brenda Hillman reveals the many places where an imitation of another species' poiesis contributes to breakthroughs in poetic form. However, humans are not the only imitators in the animal kingdom. Other species, too, achieve breakthroughs in their makings through an attentiveness to the ways-of-being of other animals. Zoopoetics provides further traction for people interested in the possibilities when and where species meet..
Water and African American Memory: An Ecocritical Perspective by Call Number: PS153.N5 W344ISBN: 9780813037455Publication Date: 2011While there is no lack of scholarship on the trans-Atlantic voyage and the Middle Passage as tropes in African diasporic writing, to date there has not been a comprehensive analysis of bodies of water in African American literature and culture. In Water and African American Memory, Anissa Wardi offers the first sustained treatise on watercourses in the African American expressive tradition. Her holistic approach especially highlights the ways that water acts not only as a metaphorical site of trauma, memory, and healing but also as a material site.
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Canfield Reisman, Rosemary (Ed.). Green Movement Poets. (2012) - PN1065 .G74
McKibben, Bill (Ed.). American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau. (2008) - PS169.E25 A44
Belleville, Bill. Losing It All to Sprawl: How Progress Ate My Cracker Landscape. (2006) - HT384.U52 F563
Callicott, J. Baird. Companion to a Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical Essays. (1987) - QH81.L563 C66
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Dwyer, Jim. Where the Wild Books Are: A Field Guide to Ecofiction. (2010) - PN3448.E36 D89
Keywords for Environmental Studies by Call Number: TD169.3 .K49ISBN: 9780814760833Publication Date: 2016Understandings of "nature" have expanded and changed, but the word has not lost importance at any level of discourse: it continues to hold a key place in conversations surrounding thought, ethics, and aesthetics. Nowhere is this more evident than in the interdisciplinary field of environmental studies. Keywords for Environmental Studies analyzes the central terms and debates currently structuring the most exciting research in and across environmental studies, including the environmental humanities, environmental social sciences, sustainability sciences, and the sciences of nature.
Ecocriticism (The New Critical Idiom) (2nd Ed) by ISBN: 9780415667869Publication Date: 2011Ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine and portray the relationship between humans and the environment in all areas of cultural production, from Wordsworth and Thoreau through to Google Earth, J.M. Coetzee and Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man. Greg Garrard¿s animated and accessible volume traces the development of the movement and explores its key concepts, including a newly rewritten chapter on animal studies, as well as notes on queer and postcolonial ecocriticism and the impacts of globalization.
Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism: Toward Urbanatural Roosting by Call Number: PR468.N3 N53ISBN: 9780230102675Publication Date: 2011Nichols chronicles how the Enlightenment conception of “nature” as static and separate from humans evolved into the Romantic era’s view of “nature” characterized by dynamic links among all living things. Drawing on Romantic and Victorian thinkers, as well as contemporary scholarship, he draws surprising conclusions “nature” in the 21st-century.
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Deb, Debal . Beyond Developmentality: Constructing Inclusive Freedom & Sustainability. (2009) - eBook
Tal, Alon (Ed.). Speaking of Earth: Environmental Speeches That Moved the World. (2006) - GE35 .S64
Buell, Lawrence. Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination. (2005) - PS169.E25 B837
Mazel, David. American Literary Environmentalism. (2000) - PS169.E25 M39
Coupe, Laurence & Jonathan Bate. Green Studies Reader: From Romanticism to Ecocriticism. (2000) - PR468.N3 G74
Glotfelty, Cheryll & Harold Fromm. Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology. (1996) - PN81 .E24
Theatre for Women's Participation in Sustainable Development by ISBN: 9781138189669Publication Date: 2015Though development researchers have proven that the participation of women is necessary for effective sustainable development, development practitioners still largely lack culturally appropriate, gender-sensitive tools for including women, especially women living in poverty. This study explores three case studies from India, Ethiopia, and the Guatemala that have successfully used applied theatre for women’s participation in sustainable development. This work will be of great interest to scholars and practitioners in a wide variety of fields who are looking for creative solutions for utilizing the contributions of women for solving our global goals to live in a sustainable, just and equitable way.
A Practical Guide to Greener Theatre: Introduce Sustainability Into Your Productions by ISBN: 9780415663243Publication Date: 2013Protecting the environment should be a priority of every theatrical production, but it can be challenging to mount an environmentally-friendly show with limited time, resources, and information. A Practical Guide to Greener Theatre not only gives you the information you need to make greener decisions, but provides you with practical, workable solutions. You will learn how to assess and improve every production area, from costuming and painting, lighting and technical direction, to administrative offices and the rehearsal process.
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Rebellato, Dan. Theatre & Globalization. (2009) - PN2041.G56 R42
Rae, Paul. Theatre & Human Rights. (2009) - PN2049 .R35