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  • Will Alexander’s Poetics

    Readings Across the Radiant Glossaries

    Edited by Joshua Schuster ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume brings together academic and poetic essays which focus on Will Alexander’s complete oeuvre. The collection explores Alexander’s long career in African American avant-garde poetry, and sheds light on other genres of Alexander’s work in addition to poetry, including: essays, plays, aphorisms, novels, dialogues and drawings. Each contribution contextualizes Alexander’s work in the many ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Calamity Theory

    Three Critiques of Existential Risk

    by Joshua Schuster, Derek Woods ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    What are the implications of how we talk about apocalypse?A new philosophical field has emerged. “Existential risk” studies any real or hypothetical human extinction event in the near or distant future. This movement examines catastrophes ranging from runaway global warming to nuclear warfare to malevolent artificial intelligence, deploying a curious mix of utilitarian ethics, statistical risk ... Read more

    $4.95 USD

  • The Ecology of Modernism

    American Environments and Avant-Garde Poetics

    by Joshua Schuster ...
    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
    In The Ecology of Modernism, Joshua Schuster examines the relationships of key modernist writers, poets, and musicians to nature, industrial development, and pollution. He posits that the curious failure of modernist poets to develop an environmental ethic was a deliberate choice and not an inadvertent omission.In his opening passage, Schuster boldly invokes lines from Walt Whitman’s “Crossing ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • What Is Extinction?

    A Natural and Cultural History of Last Animals

    by Joshua Schuster ...
    WINNER, 25th ANNUAL SUSANNE M. GLASSCOCK BOOK PRIZELife on Earth is facing a mass extinction event of our own making. Human activity is changing the biology and the meaning of extinction. What Is Extinction? examines several key moments that have come to define the terms of extinction over the past two centuries, exploring instances of animal and human finitude and the cultural forms used to ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Modernism and the Anthropocene

    Material Ecologies of Twentieth-Century Literature

    by Joseph Anderton, Emily Chester, Stuart Christie, Julia Daniel, Ted Howell, Jessica Martell, Robert Savino Oventile, Michael Sloane, Charles Tung, Timothy Wientzen, Glenn Willmott, Joshua Schuster ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Modernism and the Anthropocene explores twentieth-century literature as it engages with the non-human world across a range of contexts. From familiar modernist works by D.H. Lawrence and Hart Crane to still-emergent genres like comics and speculative fiction, this volume tackles a series of related questions regarding how best to understand humanity’s increasing domination of the natural world. ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture

    by Hank Lazer, Charlie Bertsch, Benjamin Friedlander, Marjorie Perloff, Paul Auster, Charles Bernstein, Maria Damon, Michael Heller, Norman Finkelstein, Bob Perelman, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Jerome Rothenberg, Joshua Schuster, Eric Murphy Selinger, Alicia Ostriker, Ranen Omer-Sherman, Amy Feinstein, Thomas Fink, Kathryn Hellerstein, Adeena Karasick, Meg Schoerke, Norman Fischer, Bob Holman, Merle Lyn Bachman ...
    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
    "What have I in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself!"--Franz KafkaKafka's quip--paradoxical, self-questioning, ironic--highlights vividly some of the key issues of identity and self-representation for Jewish writers in the 20th century. No group of writers better represents the problems of Jewish identity than Jewish poets writing in the American modernist tradition- ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • Anthropocene Reading

    Literary History in Geologic Times

    Edited by Jesse Oak Taylor, Tobias Menely ...
    Series series AnthropoScene
    Few terms have garnered more attention recently in the sciences, humanities, and public sphere than the Anthropocene, the proposed epoch in which a human “signature” appears in the lithostratigraphic record. Anthropocene Reading considers the implications of this concept for literary history and critical method.Entering into conversation with geologists and geographers, this volume reinterprets ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Prismatic Ecology

    Ecotheory beyond Green

    Edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen ...
    Emphasizing sustainability, balance, and the natural, green dominates our thinking about ecology like no other color. What about the catastrophic, the disruptive, the inaccessible, and the excessive? What of the ocean’s turbulence, the fecundity of excrement, the solitude of an iceberg, multihued contaminations? Prismatic Ecology moves beyond the accustomed green readings of ecotheory and maps a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • eco language reader

    by Brenda Iijima ...
    How can poetry engage with a global ecosystem under duress? How do poetic languages, forms, structures, syntaxes, and grammars contend or comply with the forces of environmental disaster? Can innovating languages forward the cause of living sustainably in a world of radical interconnectedness? In what ways do vectors of geography, race, gender, class, and culture intersect with the development of ... Read more

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  • Hyperobjects

    Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World

    by Timothy Morton ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental emergency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems to defy not only our control but also our understanding. Global warming is perhaps the most dramatic example of what Timothy Morton calls “hyperobjects”—entities ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Being Ecological, with a new preface by the author

    by Timothy Morton ...
    From “our most popular guide to the new epoch” (Guardian), a new edition of the book about ecology without information dumping, guilt inducing, or preaching to the choir.Ecology books can be confusing information dumps that are out of date by the time they hit you. Slapping you upside the head to make you feel bad. Grabbing you by the lapels while yelling disturbing facts. Handwringing in agony ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

    Rethinking the Human Place in Nature

    Edited by William Cronon ...
    A controversial, timely reassessment of the environmentalist agenda by outstanding historians, scientists, and critics.In a lead essay that powerfully states the broad argument of the book, William Cronon writes that the environmentalist goal of wilderness preservation is conceptually and politically wrongheaded. Among the ironies and entanglements resulting from this goal are the sale of nature ... Read more

    $17.09 USD