Dancing with Disaster : Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times
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Dancing with Disaster : Environmental Histories, Narratives, and Ethics for Perilous Times

Rigby, Kate / Escritor

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42,98 €
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Editorial:
UP of Virginia
Año de edición:
2015
Materia
Ecología
ISBN:
978-0-8139-3690-1
Páginas:
240
Idioma:
Inglés
Encuadernación:
Rústica
Alto:
228mm
Ancho:
155mm
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42,98 €
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In its investigation of an array of authors from the Romantic period to the present--including Heinrich von Kleist, Mary Shelley, Theodor Storm, Colin Thiele, and Alexis Wright-- Dancing with Disaster demonstrates the importance of the environmental humanities in the development of more creative, compassionate, ecologically oriented, and socially just responses to the perils and possibilities of the Anthropocene.
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