TY - BOOK AU - Murphy,Patrick D. TI - Persuasive aesthetic ecocritical praxis: climate change, subsistence, and questionable futures T2 - Ecocritical theory and practice AV - PS169.E25 M874 2015 U1 - 810.9/36 23 PY - 2015///] CY - Lanham, Maryland PB - Lexington Books KW - Ecocriticism KW - American literature KW - History and criticism KW - Ecology in literature KW - Philosophy of nature in literature KW - Ecofeminism in literature KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Continuing the transversal ecocritical praxis project -- The question of aesthetic praxis: if literature and art are propaganda, what is ecocritical analysis? -- Back to concerns about the future: Susan Fenimore Cooper and rural hours -- Pessimism, optimism, human inertia and anthropogenic climate change -- Directing the weather, producing the climate -- Buying agriculture, selling starvation and the failure of business-as-usual in a dystopic future -- Viewing the far fields through an ecofeminist subsistence perspective in an age of land grabs -- From consumables to sustenance through an ecofeminist sufficiency reorientation -- Listening for a way out through a deep yearning for a resounding relationship -- The role of women and gender equality in creating ecotopia UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bcsl-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4086501 ER -