Affective ecocriticsm : emotion, embodiment, environment /

Affective ecocriticsm : emotion, embodiment, environment / edited by Kyle Bladow and Jennifer Ladino. - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

Toward an affective ecocriticism: placing feeling in the anthropocene / Theoretical foundations "what do we do but keep breathing as best we can this minute atmosphere": Juliana Spahr and anthropocene anxiety" / From nostalgic longing to solastalgic distress: a cognitive approach to love in the anthropocene / A new gentleness: affective ficto-regionality / Affective attachments: land, bodies, justice feeling the fires of climate change: land affect in Canada's tar sands / Wendell Berry and the affective turn / A hunger for words: food affects and embodied ideology / Uncanny homesickness and war: loss of affect, loss of place, and reworlding in redeployment / Animality: feeling species and boundaries desiring species with Darwin and Freud / Tragedy, ecophobia, and animality in the anthropocene / Futurity without optimism: detaching from anthropocentrism and grieving our fathers in beasts of the southern wild / Environmentalist killjoys: politics and pedagogy the queerness of environmental affect / Feeling let down: affect, environmentalism, and the power of negative thinking / Feeling depleted: ecocinema and the atmospherics of affect / Feeling fine at the end of the world: the affect arc of undergraduate environmental studies curricula / Kyle Bladow and Jennifer Ladino -- Nicole Merola -- Alexa Weik von Mossner -- Neil Campbell -- Jobb Arnold -- William Major -- Tom Hertweck -- Ryan Hediger -- Robert Azzarello -- Brian Deyo -- Allyse Knox-Russell -- Nicole Seymour -- Lisa Ottum -- Graig Uhlin -- Sarah Jaquette Ray.

"Affective Ecocriticism approaches emergent affects in relation to environments with a sense of urgency and an accessible style that will speak to readers across a range of disciplinary and geographic locations"--



9781496208569 9781496208583


Climatic changes--Psychological aspects.
Affect (Psychology)
Ecocriticism.


Electronic Books.

BF353 / .A344 2018