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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen , Lowell DuckertPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9780816693092ISBN 10: 0816693099 Pages: 344 Publication Date: 23 December 2015 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Eleven Principles of the Elements Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert 1. Pyromena: Fire’s Doing Anne Harris 2. Phlogiston Steve Mentz 3. Airy Something Valerie Allen 4. The Sea Above Jeffrey Jerome Cohen 5. Muddy Thinking Sharon O'Dair 6. The Quintessence of Wit Chris Barrett 7. Wet? Julian Yates 8. Creeping Things: Spontaneous Generation and Material Creativity Karl Steel 9. Earth’s Prospects Lowell Duckert Love and Strife: Response Essays Elementality Timothy Morton Elemental Relations at the Edge Cary Wolfe Elemental Love in the Anthropocene Stacy Alaimo Coda: Wandering Elements and Natures to Come Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino Acknowledgments Contributors IndexReviewsThe mixture here is rich, exhilarat- ing, and while the processes of creating this collection were evidently equally so for the contributors, and while the result is illuminating and at times almost heady for the reader, it behoves us to bear in mind the toxic within such intoxication and seek a little grit amongst the mud. --Green Letters """The mixture here is rich, exhilarat- ing, and while the processes of creating this collection were evidently equally so for the contributors, and while the result is illuminating and at times almost heady for the reader, it behoves us to bear in mind the toxic within such intoxication and seek a little grit amongst the mud.""—Green Letters" Author InformationJeffrey Jerome Cohen is professor of English and director of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute at George Washington University. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including Monster Theory: Reading Culture; Prismatic Ecology: Ecotheory beyond Green; and Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman (all from Minnesota). Lowell Duckert is assistant professor of English at West Virginia University, specializing in early modern literature, ecotheory, and environmental criticism. With Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, he edited ""Ecomaterialism"" a special issue ofpostmedieval (2013). Contributors: Stacy Alaimo, U of Texas at Arlington; Valerie Allen, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY; Chris Barrett, Louisiana State U; Anne Harris, DePauw U; Serenella Iovino, U of Turin; Steve Mentz, St. John's U; Timothy Morton, Rice U; Sharon O'Dair, U of Alabama; Serpil Oppermann, Hacettepe U; Karl Steel, Brooklyn College, CUNY; Cary Wolfe, Rice U; Julian Yates, U of Delaware. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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