TY - BOOK AU - Tynan,Aidan TI - The desert in modern literature and philosophy: wasteland aesthetics T2 - Crosscurrents AV - PN56 .T443 2020 PY - 2020/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, KW - Deserts in literature KW - Literature, Modern KW - History and criticism KW - Philosophy, Modern KW - History KW - Literature KW - Philosophy KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Cover --; The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy --; Copyright --; Contents --; Series Editor's Preface --; Acknowledgements --; Dedication --; Introduction --; 1. Desert Desire --; 2. Desert Immanence --; 3. Desert Refrains --; 4. Desert Islands --; 5. Desert Polemologies --; Conclusion: Beyond the Carbon Imaginary --; Bibliography --; Index; 2; b N2 - Aidan Tynan provocatively rethinks some of the core assumptions of ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. Showing the significance of deserts and wastelands in literature since the Romantics, he argues that the desert has served to articulate anxieties over the cultural significance of space in the Anthropocene. From imperial travel writing to postmodernism, from the Old Testament to salvagepunk, the desert has been a terrain of desire over which the Western imagination of space and place has ranged. As our planetary ecological crisis heads in increasingly catastrophic directions, this critique of the figure of the desert in literature, philosophy and wider culture can help us map an environmental affect that finds itself both attracted to and repelled by arid, depopulated and barren landscapes of various kinds. Philosophers crucial to understanding our contemporary environmental condition make extensive use of the desert as a conceptual topography, a place of thought. Nietzsche's warning that "the desert grows" has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze in their critiques of modernity. Tynan engages this philosophical work through a range of 20th and 21st century art and literature, and provides new interpretations of the most significant literary deserts from T.S Eliot to Don DeLillo; Aidan explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning that 'the desert grows' has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze in their critiques of modernity, and the desert in literature ranging from T.S Eliot to Don DeLillo; from imperial travel writing to postmodernism; and from the Old Testament to salvagepunk UR - httpss://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2528105&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -