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The Literature of Waste: Material Ecopoetics and Ethical Matter

The Literature of Waste: Material Ecopoetics and Ethical Matter

Morrison, S.

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 113740566X
ISBN13: 9781137405661
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jun 4 2015
Pages: 330
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Tracing material and metaphoric waste through the Western canon, ranging from Beowulf to Samuel Beckett, Susan Signe Morrison disrupts traditional perceptions of waste to better understand how we theorize, manage, and are implicated in what is discarded and seen as garbage. Engaging a wide range of disciplines, Morrison addresses how the materiality of waste has been sedimented into a variety of toxic metaphors. If scholars can read waste as possessing dynamic agency, how might that change the ethics of refuse-ing and ostracizing wasted humans? A major contribution to the growing field of Waste Studies, this comparative and theoretically innovative book confronts the reader with the ethical urgency present in waste literature itself.


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