عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
PN51 .S873 2015
PN51
.
S873
2015
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
1137394447
(Number (ISBN
1137394471
(Number (ISBN
1349680745
(Number (ISBN
9781137394446
(Number (ISBN
9781137394477
(Number (ISBN
9781349680740
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b544573
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
The literature of waste :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
material ecopoetics and ethical matter
First Statement of Responsibility
Susan Signe Morrison.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2015]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
(xi, 330 pages)
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Literature and society.
Refuse and refuse disposal in literature.
Waste (Economics) in literature.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
PN51
Book number
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S873
2015
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Susan Signe Morrison.
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Susan Signe Morrison
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