{"product_id":"elemental-ecocriticism-thinking-with-earth-air-water-and-fire-paperback-softback-9780816693092","title":"Elemental Ecocriticism; Thinking with Earth, Air, Water, and Fire (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816693092","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eElemental Ecocriticism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThinking with Earth, Air, Water, and Fire\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJeffrey Jerome Cohen (Edited by), Lowell Duckert (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816693092\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 23 December 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e344 pages, 17\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3.8 cm, 0.428 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The mixture here is rich, exhilarat- ing, and while the processes of creating this collection were evidently equally so for the contributors, and while the result is illuminating and at times almost heady for the reader, it behoves us to bear in mind the toxic within such intoxication and seek a little grit amongst the mud.\"-\u003ci\u003eGreen Letters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor centuries it was believed that all matter was composed of four elements: earth, air, water, and fire in promiscuous combination, bound by love and pulled apart by strife. Elemental theory offered a mode of understanding materiality that did not center the cosmos around the human. Outgrown as a science, the elements are now what we build our houses against. Their renunciation has fostered only estrangement from the material world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe essays collected in \u003ci\u003eElemental Ecocriticism\u003c\/i\u003e show how elemental materiality precipitates new engagements with the ecological. Here the classical elements reveal the vitality of supposedly inert substances (mud, water, earth, air), chemical processes (fire), and natural phenomena, as well as the promise in the abandoned and the unreal (ether, phlogiston, spontaneous generation).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDecentering the human, this volume provides important correctives to the idea of the material world as mere resource. Three response essays meditate on the connections of this collaborative project to the framing of modern-day ecological concerns. A renewed intimacy with the elemental holds the potential of a more dynamic environmental ethics and the possibility of a reinvigorated materialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Eleven Principles of the Elements\u003cbr\u003eJeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert\u003cbr\u003e1. Pyromena: Fire’s Doing\u003cbr\u003eAnne Harris\u003cbr\u003e2. Phlogiston\u003cbr\u003eSteve Mentz\u003cbr\u003e3. Airy Something\u003cbr\u003eValerie Allen\u003cbr\u003e4. The Sea Above\u003cbr\u003eJeffrey Jerome Cohen\u003cbr\u003e5. Muddy Thinking\u003cbr\u003eSharon O'Dair\u003cbr\u003e6. The Quintessence of Wit\u003cbr\u003eChris Barrett\u003cbr\u003e7. Wet?\u003cbr\u003eJulian Yates\u003cbr\u003e8. Creeping Things: Spontaneous Generation and Material Creativity\u003cbr\u003eKarl Steel\u003cbr\u003e9. Earth’s Prospects\u003cbr\u003eLowell Duckert\u003cbr\u003eLove and Strife: Response Essays\u003cbr\u003eElementality\u003cbr\u003eTimothy Morton\u003cbr\u003eElemental Relations at the Edge\u003cbr\u003eCary Wolfe\u003cbr\u003eElemental Love in the Anthropocene\u003cbr\u003eStacy Alaimo\u003cbr\u003eCoda: Wandering Elements and Natures to Come\u003cbr\u003eSerpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52670800265496,"sku":"9780816693092","price":19.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/elemental-ecocriticism-thinking-with-earth-air-water-and-fire-paperback-softback-9780816693092","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}