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Author Meillon, Bénédicte

Title Dwellings of Enchantment : Writing and Reenchanting the Earth
Published Lanham : Lexington Books, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (395 pages)
Series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Ecocritical theory and practice.
Contents Cover -- Dwellings of Enchantment -- Series Editor -- Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Bibliography -- Introduction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part I Theorizing Ecopoetics of (Re)Enchantment -- Chapter 1 -- Necessary Wonder -- Where to Look? Where to Listen? -- How to Look? How to Listen? -- How to Fail -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 -- "I Turn Homeward, Still Wondering" -- The Image Wand -- A Politics of Enchantment -- Close Encounters with Other Worlds -- Trance/Trans-Species Writing
Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 -- Everyone Is Absorbed -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 -- Nature's Speech and Storytelling -- Nonhuman Voices as "The Ecology of Magic" -- Spiritual Conversations between Humans and Animals -- Landscape as Storyteller -- Animals' Speeches to Lead Us to Awareness and Wisdom -- Animals Show Us the Way -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 -- "A Place Grown Intense and Holy" -- Words Are Intrinsically Powerful -- Ceremonies: Words That Heal and Restore -- Weaving a Dwelling in Words -- Notes -- Bibliography
Part II Dwellings of Enchantment in Literatures of Place, Old, and New -- Chapter 6 -- Wonder, Enchantment, and the New Nature Writing -- Wonder and the New Nature Writing -- Wonder and Enchantment -- Dissolving the Boundaries between Human and Nonhuman, Past and Present -- The Language of Wonder -- Prospects: A New American Nature Writing -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7 -- Eco-memoir, Belonging, and the Ecopoetics of Settler Colonial Enchantment -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8 -- Aesthetic Choices for the Anthropocene Era in the New American Literature of Place
Denial and the Consoling Lure of "Nature" -- Saying Good-bye to Nature -- A Change in Perspective: Looking with the "Unnaturalist's Eye" -- A New, Pluriversal Aesthetic -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part III Of Animal Elusiveness, Death, and Wonder -- Chapter 9 -- Zoopoethics -- The "Visit to the Slaughterhouse" Trope (1830-1950) -- From the Lack of Moderation in Agri-Food Business to the Singularity of Animal Victims -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10 -- Ron Rash's Above the Waterfall, or the Square Root of Wonderful -- Polyphony -- Strange Birds -- Hybridity -- Conclusion -- Notes
Summary Dwellings of Enchantment probes literature and cues humans to experience awe, love, and respect for our wonderfully complex, multispecies home. Interweaving new materialist, postcolonial, ecopoetic, ecofeminist, and ecopsychological approaches, it delves into various ontologies, literary modes, and tropes framing our coevolution within the oikos
Bibliography Bibliography-Chapter 11-A Poetics of Traces in Rick Bass's Short Stories-Approaching Animal Worlds-Maintaining a Safe Distance-The Sense of a Community-Notes-Bibliography-Part IV Of Postcolonial and Ecofeminist Spellings and Spells-Chapter 12-Conversations with the Living World-Conversations-Loving Eyes-Enchantment-Notes-Bibliography-Chapter 13-Writing a Way Home-Ecotones as Contact Zones-Magical Realism, Totemism, and Ordinary Wonders-Liminal Realism: Dwelling within a Biotic Communitas-Ecopoetic Insight into Dwellings of Enchantment
Notes Conclusion
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Author Adamson, Joni
Alves, Isabel Maria Fernandes
Cazajous-Aujé, Claire
Cuadrado-Fernandez, Antonio
Flys-Junquera, Carmen
Grandjeat, Yves-Charles
Harding, Wendy
Hogan, Linda
ISBN 9781793631602
1793631603