Re-Imagining Nature

Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics

Contributions by John Carey, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Katherine M. Faull, Timo Maran, Dermot Moran, Michael Oleksa, Cynthia Radding, Sarah Reese, Kathryn W. Shanley, Cary Wolfe Director, 3CT: Center for Critical and Cultural Theory, Rice University; au Edited by Alfred Kentigern Siewers

Publication date:

24 December 2013

Length of book:

292 pages

Publisher

Bucknell University Press

Dimensions:

234x161mm
6x9"

Re-Imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics explores new horizons in environmental studies, which consider communication and meaning as core definitions of ecological life, essential to deep sustainability. It considers landscape as narrative, and applies theoretical frameworks in eco-phenomenology and ecosemiotics to literary, historical, and philosophical study of the relationship between text and landscape. It considers in particular examples and lessons to be drawn from case studies of medieval and Native American cultures, to illustrate in an applied way the promise of environmental humanities today. In doing so, it highlights an environmental future for the humanities, on the cutting edge of cultural endeavor today.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction - Song, Tree, and Spring: Environmental Meaning and the Environmental Humanities
Part One: Backgrounds
Chapter 2: The Ecopoetics of Creation: Genesis LXX 1-3
By Alfred Kentigern Siewers
Chapter 3: Place and Sign: Locality as a Foundation for Ecosemiotics
By Timo Maran
Chapter 4: Learning from Temple Grandin, or, Animal Studies, Disability Studies, and Who Comes after the Subject
By Cary Wolfe
Part Two: Medieval Natures
Chapter 5: “The Secret Folds of Nature”: Eriugena's Expansive Concept of Nature
By Dermot Moran
Chapter 6: The Nature of Miracles in Early Irish Saints’ Lives
By John Carey
Chapter 7: Inventing with Animals in the Middle Ages
By Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Part Three: Re-Negotiating Native Natures
Chapter 8: The Yua as Logoi
By Fr Michael Oleksa
Chapter 9: Intersubjectivity with “Nature” in Plains Indian Vision-seeking
By Kathryn W. Shanley
Chapter 10: The Experience of the World as the Experience of the Self: Smooth Rocks in a River Archipelago
By Katherine M. Faull
Chapter 11: Human Geographies and Landscapes of the Divine in Ibero-American Borderlands
By Cynthia Radding
Chapter 12: Call and Response: The Human/Non-Human Encounter in Linda Hogan’s Solar
Storms
By Sarah Reese
Suggested Reading
Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors