The environmental imaginary in Brazilian poetry and art /

Bridging Brazilian cultural studies and environmental humanities, Land That Seemed to Us Quite Vast examines images and meanings of nature and landscape in contemporary art and poetry in Brazil. It identifies general tendencies in aesthetic modes of environmental thinking and representation, and it...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	McNee, Malcolm (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Literatures, cultures, and the environment.
Subjects:	Brazilian poetry > 20th century > History and criticism. Brazilian poetry > 21st century > History and criticism. Ecology in literature. Nature in literature. Landscapes in literature. Art, Brazilian > 20th century. Art, Brazilian > 21st century. Ecology in art. Nature in art. Landscapes in art.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: land that seemed to us quite vast
Ecopoetry and earth art: theoretical orientations and Brazilian inflections
Manoel de Barros and Astrid Cabral: between backyard swamps and the cosmos
Sérgio Medeiros and Josely Vianna Baptista: meta-landscape and the (re)turn of the native
Frans Krajcberg and Bené Fonteles: art, anti-art, and environmentalist engagement
Lia do Rio and Nuno Ramos: the art of nature estranged
Epilogue: notes from the creative margins of Rio+20.