Avenging Nature

Introduction, Eduardo Valls Oyarzun



Part I

Towards a New Ecocritical Ethics: Cultural Perspectives



Chapter 1. Bringing Culture Back to Nature: A Biosemiotic Reading of Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek , Anastasia Cardone

Chapter 2. “Have You Seen the Snow Leopard?”: Animal Commodity Resistance in Peter Matthiessen’s The Snow Leo , Frank Izaguirre

Chapter 3. “With One Arm I Supported Her: The Other Arm Was the Executioner’s”: An Ecofeminist Reading of Anna Kavan’s Ice , Laura de la Parra

Chapter 4. “We Were Neither What We Had Been Nor What We Would Become”: Frankensteinian Science and Liminal States in Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation , Jessica Roberts

Chapter 5. Santiago Rusiñol’s Abandoned Gardens: Between the Poetics of Ruin and the Defense of a Lost Identity, Laura Sanz García



Part II

Empowering Nature: Transcending Anthropocentrism in the Anthropocene



Chapter 6. Welcoming Cosmos: A Comparative Study of Narrative, Nature and Cosmopolitanism in The Wall and Pond , Hande Gurses

Chapter 7. A Few Sockeyes and Dying Embers in What Is Left of the Forest : Settler Culture and Changing Views of Nature in Gail Anderson Dargatz’s Latest Novels, Pedro Miguel Carmona

Chapter 8. The Last Epigram: Christian Bök’sXenotext, Ryan Winet

Chapter 9. A Poetic Correspondence on Ecology and the Green World: Allan Cooper and Harry Thurston’s The Deer Yard , Leonor Martínez

Chapter 10. Wonders and Threats of Symbiotic Relationships in the Anthropocene: Jeff VanderMeer’s The Southern ReachTrilogy , Patrycja Austin



Part III

The Age of Dystopia: Nature against Culture in Contemporary Literature and Film



Chapter 11. Demonizing Nature: Ecocriticism and Popular Fantasy, Peter Melville

Chapter 12. Accepting the X: Uncanny Encounters with Nature and the Wilderness in Jeff Vandermeer’s The Southern Reach Trilogy , Carmen Méndez

Chapter 13. Ecocritical Archaeologies of Global Ecocide in 21st–Century Post–Apocalyptic Films, Mónica Martí

Chapter 14. Biohazard, Eco–terror and the Rise of Post–Human Dystopia: Re (b) ordering Space to Promote Environmental Ethics in ZalBatmanglij’s The East and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road , Paula Barba Guerrero

Chapter 15. Another Inconvenient Truth: Hollywood, the Myth of GreenCapitalism, Víctor Junco

Chapter 16. De–Evolution, Dystopia and Apocalypse in American Postmodern Speculative Fiction, Javier Martín Párraga

Index

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