From apocalypse to way of life : environmental crisis in the American century / Frederick Buell.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Buell, Frederick, 1942-
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2003.
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Physical Description:xviii, 390 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • pt. 1. Contesting crisis
  • 1. The politics of denial
  • 2. Taking crisis seriously
  • pt. 2. Elaborating crisis : an introductory caution
  • 3. Natures in crisis, part 1 : an inventory of the external world
  • 4. Natures in crisis, part 2 : deepening intimacy
  • 5. Environmental crisis as a social crisis
  • 6. Crisis history : from prophecy to risk, from apocalypse to dwelling place
  • pt. 3. Imagining crisis
  • 7. The culture of hyperexuberance
  • 8. Representing crisis : environmental crisis in popular fiction and film
  • 9. Taking crisis seriously : environmental crisis and contemporary literature.