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Title Details:
Nature: far away, so close
Other Titles: An ecocritical study of Modern Greek Fiction
Authors: Natsina, Anastasia
Subject: HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY > LITERATURE
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY > LITERATURE
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY > LITERARY FORMS AND GENRES > CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY > LITERARY FORMS AND GENRES > FICTION
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY > LITERARY FORMS AND GENRES > PROSE
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY > LITERARY FORMS AND GENRES > PROSE > SHORT STORIES
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY > LITERARY FORMS AND GENRES > LITERARY ANALYSIS
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY > LITERARY FORMS AND GENRES > LITERARY ANALYSIS > TEXTUAL ANALYSIS
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY > NATIONAL LITERATURES > EUROPEAN LITERATURE > GREEK LITERATURE
HUMANITIES AND ARTS > ARTS AND LETTERS > PHILOLOGY > MODERN GREEK PHILOLOGY
Keywords:
Ecocriticism
Prose
20th-21st century
Biocentrism-Ecocentrism
Deep ecology
Ecofeminism
Social ecology
Bioregion
Queer ecology
Material ecocriticism
Environmental humanities
Apocalypse – Post-apocalyptic fiction
Bildungsroman
Feeling for nature
Eugenics
Ecophobia
Sexism
Biologism
Description:
Abstract:
This study examines some emblematic, but also some lesser-known modern Greek prose works of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, to discuss the functions and representations of nature in these works from an ecological perspective. This perspective places the project within the framework of ecocriticism. After a presentation of the history and issues of this branch of environmental humanities, the individual chapters examine the works in their socio-cultural contexts, in the order of their chronological succession. Topics discussed are the political, ideological and economic presuppositions of interwar bourgeois love of nature; the distant idealization of nature in the intellectual nationalism of the 1930s generation; its ideological abuse in the service of eugenics in the same period; the identification of women with character in a movement that initially idealizes and eventually repels both in male writers and, in the opposite direction, the acceptance of the materiality and diversity of nature in women writers from the interwar to the early postwar years; the threat of nature's return as an oppressed but liberating Other in the aggressive urbanization of the 1960s; the end of the world as a consequence of rampant growth, individualism and competition and the possibility of salvation in the opening up, acceptance of fluidity and the connection of the human being to the whole of the natural realm. In this study, the hierarchical dichotomy of human/nature recurs consistently in many of the texts. In contrast, others highlight the dead ends to which this oppressive and devaluing division leads, as it becomes clear that humans are nature.
Linguistic Editors: Kotzampasi, Maria
Graphic Editors: Papadatou, Chara
Other contributors: Cover image: Photo by Nikos Georgousis, licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA.
Type: Monograph
Creation Date: 25-09-2023
Item Details:
ISBN 978-618-228-105-5
License: Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-339
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/10675
Bibliographic Reference: Natsina, A. (2023). Nature: far away, so close [Monograph]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-339
Language: Greek
Consists of:
1. Ecocriticism: Ecology in literary studies
2. Urban outlooks of nature in the interwar
3. Growing up in the countryside: From interwar to postwar
4. The revolt of the oppressed: Nature in the long sixties
5. Facing the disaster: Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
6. Conclusions
Number of pages 184
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions
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