Literature Nature and Other

<p><b>Postmodern theory at its best-a call for an ecofeminist dialogical method of reading literature and nature.</b></p><p>The book first establishes a theoretical framework for conceptualizing environmental analysis. It then develops a conception of environmental literature with an emphasis on works by women arguing for the need to reconceptualize woman/nature and nature/culture associations and critiquing the problems of male poetic sex-typing of the planet. Murphy also elaborates on specific works and authors with an emphasis on literary texts by Hampl Harjo Snyder and Le Guin. Additionally he treats issues of canon and pedagogy as well as the possibility of agency in a postmodern era.</p><p>Ranging across diverse fields and incorporating cultural studies post-structuralist literary theory and ecofeminist philosophy Literature Nature and Other both defines and critiques the current terrains of literary ecocriticism and nature writing/environmental literature. Literary examples are drawn from fiction poetry and prose including postmodern metanarratives and works by Native Americans and Chicanas.</p>