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Culture, Creativity and Environment: New Environmentalist Criticism (Nature, Culture and Literature, 5) by Ian Beckett; Terry Gifford is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Culture, Creativity and Environment: New Environmentalist Criticism (Nature, Culture and Literature, 5) about?

Culture, Creativity and Environment: New Environmentalist Criticism is a collection of new work which examines the intersection between philosophy, literature, visual art, film and the environment at a time of environmental crisis. This book is unusual in the way in which the 'imaginative', 'creative', element is privileged, notwithstanding the creativity of rigorous cultural criticism. Genuinely interdisciplinary, this book aims to be inclusive in its discussions of diverse cultural media (different literary genres, art forms and film for instance), which offer thoughtful and thought-provoking critiques of our relationships with the environment. Our ability to transcend the ethical and aesthetic categories and discourses that have contributed to our alienation from our environment is dependant upon an enlargement of our imaginative capacities. In a modest way this book might contribute to what Ted Hughes, speaking of the imagination of each new child, described as "nature's chance to correct culture's error". **

Who reads Culture, Creativity and Environment: New Environmentalist Criticism (Nature, Culture and Literature, 5)?

Author

Ian Beckett; Terry Gifford

Publisher

Brill Academic Pub

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781282265493

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, Literary Fiction, Nature