TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clark,Timothy
TI  - Ecocriticism on the edge: the anthropocene as a threshold concept
SN  - 9781472505736
U1  - 809.933553 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Academic
KW  - Ecocriticism
KW  - Climatic changes in literature
KW  - Environmentalism in literature
N1  - Table of Contents:

1.	The Anthropocene - Questions of Definition
2.	Imaging and Imagining the Whole Earth: The Terrestrial as Norm
3.	Emergent Unreadability: Rereading a Lyric by Gary Snyder
4.	Scale Framing
5.	Scale Framing: A Reading
6.	Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Dehumanizing Reading: An Australian Test-Case
7.	Anthropocene Disorder
8.	Denial: A Reading
9.	The Tragedy that Climate Change is not 'Interesting'

N2  - The twenty-first century has seen an increased awareness of the forms of environmental destruction that cannot immediately be seen, localised or, by some, even acknowledged.

Ecocriticism on the Edge explores the possibility of a new mode of critical practice, one fully engaged with the destructive force of the planetary environmental crisis. Timothy Clark argues that, in literary and cultural criticism, the “Anthropocene”, which names the epoch in which human impacts on the planet's ecological systems reach a dangerous limit, also represents a threshold at which modes of interpretation that once seemed sufficient or progressive become, in this new counterintuitive context, inadequate or even latently destructive. The book includes analyses of literary works, including texts by Paule Marshall, Gary Snyder, Ben Okri, Henry Lawson, Lorrie Moore and Raymond Carver.

(http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/ecocriticism-on-the-edge-9781472505736/)

ER  -