Deciphering Radical Ecology in Contemporary British Fiction- Julian Barnes, David Mitchell and John Fowles

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Author(s): Baturay ERDAL
Publisher: Peter Lang
Year: 2020

Language: English
Commentary: This book indicates that postmodern literature might reveal much in common with radical environmental movements. It also offers discussions for how an ecological postmodern literary theory can provide significant contributions to the paradigm shift in social and individual dimensions before the extant environmental crisis turns into a deeper turmoil. In this context, concerning ecological images and environmental discussions they provide, A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters by Julian Barnes, Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell and The Collector by John Fowles are analyzed through the lens of such radical ecological movements like deep ecology, social ecology and ecofeminism.
Pages: 181
City: Berlin
Tags: Radical, Ecology, Ecocriticism, Deep Ecology, Social Ecology, Ecofeminism, Postmodern, Contemporary English Novel, Julian Barnes, David Mitchell, John Fowles, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters,, Cloud Atlas, Collector

Introduction …… 11

Chapter One The Idea of Green: From Homocentrism to Ecological Enlightenment ………21

1.1. Modernity and the Death of Nature: Reason, Science and Religion as a Totalizing Explanatory System …. 21
1.2. Radical Ecology Movement: An Environmental Counter-Revolution…. 47
1.2.1 Deep Ecology …..51
1.2.2 Ecofeminism ……57
1.2.3 Social Ecology …. 62

Chapter Two Iconoclastic Identity of Julian Barnes: Deconstructing Anthropocentric Ideology in A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters …….. 69

Chapter Three Toward a Synthetic and Corporate Society: Distorted Third Nature in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas……. 93

Chapter Four John Fowles as a Feminist Nature Writer: Fowlesian Portrait of Androcentric Exploitation of Woman and Nature in The Collector…………. 133

Conclusion 159

Bibliography 169