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The literature of waste :

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The literature of waste :

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material ecopoetics and ethical matter

Susan Signe Morrison.

New York

Palgrave Macmillan

[2015]

(xi, 330 pages)

Introduction: The Waste-ern Literary Canon in the Waste-ern Tradition --;PART I: TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL: APPROACHES TO DISCIPLINING WASTE --;1. Codification: The Anxiety of Ambiguity --;2. The Fragmented and Corruptible Body: Gendered Waste --;3. The Civilizing Process: Divisive Divisions --;4. Memory and Narrative: Ruins, Nostalgia, and Ghosts --;5. Failed Source Reduction: Conspicuous Consumption and the Inability to Minimize --;6. Urban Myths: The Civilized and Pristine City-Body --;7. Interiorized Waste: Sin and Metaphysical Meaninglessness --;8. The Toxic Metaphor of Wasted Humans: Those Filthy Cleaners Who Scrub Us Spotless --;PART II: ENERGY RECOVERY AND THE DYNAMIC POWER OF THINGS --;9. The Secret Life of Objects: The Audacity of Thingness and the Poignancy of Materiality --;10. Trash Meditation: The Arts of Transience and Proximity --;PART III: RECYCLING AND COMPOSTING: FORM AS RESTITUTION --;11. Waste Aesthetics: Puns, Litter-ature, and Intertextuality --;12. Gleaning Aesthetics: Poetry as Communal Salvage --;PART IV: SOURCE REDUCTION AND REUSE: COMPASSION THROUGH GENEROUS METAPHOR --;13. Compost Aesthetics: The Poet[h]ics of Metaphor --;14. Poetry as Homeopathy: The Poet as Ragpicker.

Tracing material and metaphoric waste through the Western canon, ranging from Beowulf to Samuel Beckett, Susan Signe Morrison disrupts traditional perceptions of waste to better understand how we theorize, manage, and are implicated in what is discarded and seen as garbage.

Literature and society.

Refuse and refuse disposal in literature.

Waste (Economics) in literature.

Susan Signe Morrison.

Susan Signe Morrison

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