The Green Studies Reader: From Romanticism to Ecocriticism
The Green Studies Reader: From Romanticism to Ecocriticism
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绿色研究读本:从浪漫主义到生态批评
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10.1093/isle/9.1.273
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2002
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D. Philippon
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The UK's answer to The Ecocriticism Reader (1996), The Green Studies Reader attempts both to correct for the Americanist bias present274 isle in much early e connections be postcolonial stu well, particular the roots of eco the critique of m Adorno, Heideg of these tasks is Reader should b its editor, Laure In terms of fo be a more inclu sounds more inclusive than it is. While the texts collected in sec-tion two," Green Theory," include excerpts from a philosopher, anthropologist, and political theorist," green studies" refers essentially to literary and cultural studies that engage" the most fundamental question of all... that of the relationship between the hu-man and the nonhuman"(119). It may be true, as Coupe suggests in his preface, that" green connections really do stop nowhere"(xi), but a more fitting title for this collection might have been the" en-vironmental humanities reader" or the" green cultural studies reader," since" green studies"(as defined here) is only part of the larger project of" environmental studies," which the uninitiated could easily mistake for its equivalent. The texts collected in sec-tion three," Green Reading," illustrate this narrower focus of" green studies," as they offer general overviews of literary movements and conventions from an environmental perspective and ecocritical readings of specific works or bodies of work. In terms of content, an anthology such as this has inherent limitations, and it could be argued that the audience for this book might have been better served by a detailed bibliographical essay rather than by fifty short selections, each only about four pages long. In the gen-eral introduction and in the introduction to each of the book's six parts, Coupe provides what could be considered portions of such an essay, weaving together the themes of these brief excerpts and indicating some of the ways in which literature, culture, and environment interact, but the genre of the introduction prevents him from addressing these issues in the depth he is clearly capable of achieving. Despite these limitations, The Green Studies Reader will likely serve as an effective introduction to unfamiliar writers and works in ecocriticism, particularly for graduate and advanced undergraduate students interested in an English perspective on the subject. The book also features a foreword by Jonathan Bate, a brief glossary, a bibliog-