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Ecological Thought in German Literature and Culture
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Artikel-Nr:
9781498514934
Veröffentl:
2017
Seiten:
484
Autor:
Gabriele Duerbeck
Serie:
Ecocritical Theory and Practice
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This volume surveys the contribution of German literature and culture to the evolution of ecological thought from the age of Goethe to the present. In a broad spectrum of essays from different periods, disciplines, and genres, it conveys both the uniqueness and the transnational significance of German ecological thought.
The volume offers a survey of the contribution of German literature and culture to the evolution of ecological thought. As the field of ecocritical theory and practice is rapidly expanding towards transnational and global dimensions, it seems nevertheless necessary to consider the distinct manifestations of ecological thought in various cultures. In this sense, the volume demonstrates in twenty-six essays from different disciplines how German literature, philosophy, art, and science have contributed in unique ways to the emergence of ecological thought on national and transnational scale. The volume maps the most important and characteristic of these developments both on a theoretical and on a textual-analytical level. It is structured in five parts ranging from proto-ecological thought since early modern times (part I) to major theoretical approaches (part II), environmental history (part III), and ecocritical case studies (part IV), to ecological visions in different media and art forms (part V).
The four editors have widely published and are actively involved in ecocritical literary and cultural studies. The group of editors consists of two scholars of German literature and cultural studies, Gabriele Duerbeck and Urte Stobbe (both University of Vechta), a scholar in German and comparative literature, Evi Zemanek (University of Freiburg), as well as a scholar of Anglo-American ecoliterature and ecocriticism, Hubert Zapf. All of them are involved in various projects and research networks on ecology and literature. The contributors of the individual chapters likewise are all experts in their respective fields, ranging from German literature, history, environmental studies, art history, music and art. The book is a unique and readily accessible collection of essays that is of relevance not only for a German and continental European but for a worldwide audience.
The four editors have widely published and are actively involved in ecocritical literary and cultural studies. The group of editors consists of two scholars of German literature and cultural studies, Gabriele Duerbeck and Urte Stobbe (both University of Vechta), a scholar in German and comparative literature, Evi Zemanek (University of Freiburg), as well as a scholar of Anglo-American ecoliterature and ecocriticism, Hubert Zapf. All of them are involved in various projects and research networks on ecology and literature. The contributors of the individual chapters likewise are all experts in their respective fields, ranging from German literature, history, environmental studies, art history, music and art. The book is a unique and readily accessible collection of essays that is of relevance not only for a German and continental European but for a worldwide audience.
Introduction
Gabriele Dürbeck, Urte Stobbe, Hubert Zapf, and Evi Zemanek
Part I: Proto-Ecological Thought
Part II: Theoretical Approaches
Part III: Environmental History in Germany
Part IV: Ecocritical Case Studies of German Literature
Part V: Ecological Visions in Painting, Music, Film, and Land Art
Gabriele Dürbeck, Urte Stobbe, Hubert Zapf, and Evi Zemanek
Part I: Proto-Ecological Thought
- Cultural History of the Four Elements
- Goethe’s Concept of Nature: Proto-Ecological Model
- Nature, Language, and Religion: Herder and Beyond
- Poet and Philosopher: Novalis and Schelling on Nature and Matter
- Alexander von Humboldt as Ecologist
Part II: Theoretical Approaches
- Heidegger’s Ecological Criticism
- Ecocriticism and the Frankfurt School
- The Ethics and Aesthetics of Landscapes
- Niklas Luhmann’s Theory of Social Systems
- Risk Theory
- Cultural Ecology
Part III: Environmental History in Germany
- Thinking the Disaster: A Historical Approach
- Industrial Pollution in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
- Cultural Landscapes in Germany – Continuities, Ruptures, and Stewardship
- Environmentalism in Germany since 1900: An Overview
- History of Substances
Part IV: Ecocritical Case Studies of German Literature
- From Baroque Pastoral to the Idyll
- German Ecopoetry
- Elemental Poetics: Material Agency in Contemporary German Poetry
- Grimms’ Fairy Tales and Their Impact on Christa Wolf’s Störfall
- German Cold War Bunker Narratives
- Climate Change Fiction and Ecothrillers
Part V: Ecological Visions in Painting, Music, Film, and Land Art
- The Perception of German Landscapes
- Beethoven’s Natures
- Visions of Nature and Ecological Thought in German Feature Films
- American Land Art and Ecological Landscape Aesthetics in Europe