Re-Imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics [Paperback]

Re-Imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics explores new horizons in environmental studies, which consider communication and meaning as core definitions of ecological life, essential to deep sustainability. It considers landscape as narrative, and applies theoretical frameworks in eco-phenomenology and ecosemiotics to literary, historical, and philosophical study of the relationship between text and landscape. It considers in particular examples and lessons to be drawn from case studies of medieval and Native American cultures, to illustrate in an applied way the promise of environmental humanities today. In doing so, it highlights an environmental future for the humanities, on the cutting edge of cultural endeavor today.Alfred Kentigern Siewers is associate professor of English and founding coordinator of the Nature and Human Communities (now Place Studies) Initiative at Bucknell University.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction - Song, Tree, and Spring: Environmental Meaning and the Environmental Humanities
Part One: Backgrounds
Chapter 2: The Ecopoetics of Creation: Genesis LXX 1-3
By Alfred Kentigern Siewers
Chapter 3: Place and Sign: Locality as a Foundation for Ecosemiotics
By Timo Maran
Chapter 4: Learning from Temple Grandin, or, Animal Studies, Disability Studies, and Who Comes after the Subject
By Cary Wolfe
Part Two: Medieval Natures
Chapter 5: The Secret Folds of Nature: Eriugena's Expansive Concept of Nature
By Dermot Moran
Chapter 6: The Nature of Miracles in Early Irish Saints Lives
By John Carey
Chapter 7: Inventing with Animals in the Middle Ages
By Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Part Three: Re-Negotiating Native Natures
Chapter 8: The Yua as Logoi
By Fr Michael Oleksa
Chapter 9: Intersubjectivity with Nature in Plains Indian Vision-seeking
By Kathryn W. Shanley
Chapter 10: The Experience of the World as the Experience of the Sell[