Nature, Technology and Cultural Change in Twentieth-Century German Literature: The Challenge of EcocriticismThis book traces shifting attitudes towards science and technology, nature and the environment in twentieth-century Germany. It approaches them through discussion of a range of literary texts largely new to English readers, in which practical environmental problems and underlying issues of ecological ethics are brought to life in (often semi-autobiographical) narratives. It explores the philosophical influences on them and their political contexts, and asks what part novels and plays, poems and essays have played in environmental debate. Technological disasters, living in the landscape, hunting and allotment gardens are among the topics discussed. |
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The Role of Writers | 3 |
Goethe as Ecophilosophical Inspiration and Literary Model | 45 |
Hunting and Ecology in | 168 |
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