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Ecocritical Aesthetics
Language, Beauty, and the Environment
Peter Quigley (Edited by), Scott Slovic (Edited by), Arnold Berleant (Contributions by), Greta Gaard (Contributions by), Janine DeBaise (Contributions by), Mark Luccarelli (Contributions by), Cynthia Miller (Contributions by), Tyler Nickl (Contributions by), Serpil Oppermann (Contributions by), Shaun Anne Tangney (Contributions by), Frank Stewart (Contributions by), Tim Hunt (Contributions by), Werner Bigell (Contributions by), Yuki Masami (Contributions by)
9780253032102
Hardback, published 28 February 2018
234 pages, 5 b&w illus. - 5 Illustrations, black and white
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.467 kg
This lively collection of essays explores the vital role of beauty in the human experience of place, interactions with other species, and contemplation of our own embodied lives. Devoting attention to themes such as global climate change, animal subjectivity, environmental justice and activism, and human moral responsibility for the environment, these contributions demonstrate that beauty is not only a meaningful dimension of our experience, but also a powerful strategy for inspiring cultural transformation. Taken as a whole, they underscore the ongoing relevance of aesthetics to the ecocritical project and the concern for beauty that motivates effective social and political engagement.
Acknowledgements I. The Relevance of Beauty II. Beauty and Engagement III. Materiality, Transcendence, and Aesthetics Index
Introduction / Peter Quigley
1. "It is out of fashion to say so": The Language of Nature and the Rhetoric of Beauty in Robinson Jeffers / Tim Hunt
2. Thoreau's Poetics of Nature / Arnold Berleant
3. The Pout's Nest and the Painter's Eye / Frank Stewart
4. "Yet How Beautiful It Is!": Work, Ethics, and Beauty in Stegner's Angle of Repose / Tyler Nickl
5. Renaissance Aesthetics, Picturesque Beauty, the Natural Landscape: An Essay Examining the Rise and Fall of the Impulse toward Beauty / Mark Luccarelli
6. Toward an Ecofeminist Aesthetic of Reconnection / Greta Gaard
7. Beauty and the Body: Towards an Ecofeminist Aesthetic that Includes Loving Our Naked Selves / Janine DeBaise
8. Dystopia and Utopia in a Nuclear Landscape: Emerging Aesthetics in Satoyama / Yuki Masami
9. Know Beauty, Know Justice: Why Beauty Matters in the Classroom / ShaunAnne Tangney
10. Nature's Colors: A Prismatic Materiality in the Natural/Cultural Realms / Serpil Oppermann
11. From the Human to the Divine: Nature in the Writings of the Tamil Poet-Saints / Cynthia J. Miller
12. Beauty as Ideological and Material Transcendence / Werner Bigell
13. Toward Sustainable Aesthetics: The Poetry of Food, Sex, Water, Architecture, and Bicycle-Riding / Scott Slovic