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Ecological Thought in German Literature and Culture

Ecocritical Theory and Practice

von: Gabriele Duerbeck, Axel Goodbody, Jakob Christoph Heller, Richard Hölzl, Matthias Hurst, Werner Konold, Anke Kramer, Angelika Krebs, Wolfgang Lueckel, Timo Müller, Kate Rigby, Urte Stobbe, Caroline Schaumann, Jens Soentgen, Heather I. Sullivan, Silvio Vietta, François Walter, Berbeli Wanning, Udo Weilacher, Hubert Zapf, Evi Zemanek, Aaron S. Allen, Martin Bemmann, Hannes Bergthaller, Benjamin Bühler, Nils Büttner
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Verlag:	Lexington Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	16.10.2017
ISBN/EAN:	9781498514934
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	484

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Titelbeschreibung

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.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 
 
Gabriele Dürbeck, Urte Stobbe, Hubert Zapf, and Evi Zemanek
 

 
Part I: Proto-Ecological Thought
 

 
<ol start="1">
<li>Cultural History of the Four Elements </li>
</ol>
Anke Kramer
 
<ol start="2">
<li>Goethe’s Concept of Nature: Proto-Ecological Model</li>
</ol>
Heather Sullivan
 
<ol start="3">
<li>Nature, Language, and Religion: Herder and Beyond</li>
</ol>
Kate Rigby
 
<ol start="4">
<li>Poet and Philosopher: Novalis and Schelling on Nature and Matter </li>
</ol>
Berbeli Wanning 
 
<ol start="5">
<li>Alexander von Humboldt as Ecologist </li>
</ol>
Caroline Schaumann 
 

 
Part II: Theoretical Approaches
 

 
<ol start="6">
<li>Heidegger’s Ecological Criticism </li>
</ol>
Silvio Vietta
 
<ol start="7">
<li>Ecocriticism and the Frankfurt School </li>
</ol>
Timo Müller
 
<ol start="8">
<li>The Ethics and Aesthetics of Landscapes </li>
</ol>
Angelika Krebs
 
<ol start="9">
<li>Niklas Luhmann’s Theory of Social Systems </li>
</ol>
Hannes Bergthaller 
 
<ol start="10">
<li>Risk Theory </li>
</ol>
Benjamin Bühler
 
<ol start="11">
<li>Cultural Ecology </li>
</ol>
Hubert Zapf
 

 
Part III: Environmental History in Germany
 

 
<ol start="12">
<li>Thinking the Disaster: A Historical Approach </li>
</ol>
Francois Walter
 
<ol start="13">
<li>Industrial Pollution in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries </li>
</ol>
Martin Bemmann
 
<ol start="14">
<li>Cultural Landscapes in Germany – Continuities, Ruptures, and Stewardship </li>
</ol>
Werner Konold
 
<ol start="15">
<li>Environmentalism in Germany since 1900: An Overview </li>
</ol>
Richard Hölzl
 
<ol start="16">
<li>History of Substances </li>
</ol>
Jens Soentgen
 
 
 
Part IV: Ecocritical Case Studies of German Literature
 

 
<ol start="17">
<li>From Baroque Pastoral to the Idyll </li>
</ol>
Jakob Heller
 
<ol start="18">
<li>German Ecopoetry </li>
</ol>
Axel Goodbody
 
<ol start="19">
<li>Elemental Poetics: Material Agency in Contemporary German Poetry </li>
</ol>
Evi Zemanek
 
<ol start="20">
<li>Grimms’ Fairy Tales and Their Impact on Christa Wolf’s Störfall</li>
</ol>
Urte Stobbe
 
<ol start="21">
<li>German Cold War Bunker Narratives </li>
</ol>
Wolfgang Lückel
 
<ol start="22">
<li>Climate Change Fiction and Ecothrillers </li>
</ol>
Gabriele Dürbeck
 

 
Part V: Ecological Visions in Painting, Music, Film, and Land Art
 

 
<ol start="23">
<li>The Perception of German Landscapes </li>
</ol>
Nils Büttner
 
<ol start="24">
<li>Beethoven’s Natures </li>
</ol>
Aaron S. Allen
 
<ol start="25">
<li>Visions of Nature and Ecological Thought in German Feature Films </li>
</ol>
Matthias Hurst
 
<ol start="26">
<li>American Land Art and Ecological Landscape Aesthetics in Europe </li>
</ol>
Udo Weilacher

Autorenportrait

Gabriele Dürbeck is professor of literature and cultural studies at University of Vechta. Urte Stobbe is postdoctoral fellow and lecturer in the field of German literature and linguistic at University of Vechta. Hubert Zapf is professor of American literature and co-director of environmental humanities research at the University of Augsburg. Evi Zemanek is associate professor of German literature and interart studies at the University of Freiburg.