The literature of waste : material ecopoetics and ethical matter /
"Establishing the field of Waste Studies, a material ecocritical approach, The Literature of Waste traces literal and figurative waste in the western canon. The materiality of waste - as in landfills, trashcans, garbage dumps, compost piles - inevitably transforms into metaphor. Waste emerges o...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
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- Introduction: The Waste-ern Literary Canon in the Waste-ern Tradition
- PART I: TREATMENT AND DISPOSAL: APPROACHES TO DISCIPLINING WASTE
- 1. Codification: The Anxiety of Ambiguity
- 2. The Fragmented and Corruptible Body: Gendered Waste
- 3. The Civilizing Process: Divisive Divisions
- 4. Memory and Narrative: Ruins, Nostalgia, and Ghosts
- 5. Failed Source Reduction: Conspicuous Consumption and the Inability to Minimize
- 6. Urban Myths: The Civilized and Pristine City-Body
- 7. Interiorized Waste: Sin and Metaphysical Meaninglessness
- 8. The Toxic Metaphor of Wasted Humans: Those Filthy Cleaners Who Scrub Us Spotless
- PART II: ENERGY RECOVERY AND THE DYNAMIC POWER OF THINGS
- 9. The Secret Life of Objects: The Audacity of Thingness and the Poignancy of Materiality
- 10. Trash Meditation: The Arts of Transience and Proximity
- PART III: RECYCLING AND COMPOSTING: FORM AS RESTITUTION
- 11. Waste Aesthetics: Puns, Litter-ature, and Intertextuality
- 12. Gleaning Aesthetics: Poetry as Communal Salvage
- PART IV: SOURCE REDUCTION AND REUSE: COMPASSION THROUGH GENEROUS METAPHOR
- 13. Compost Aesthetics: The Poet[h]ics of Metaphor
- 14. Poetry as Homeopathy: The Poet as Ragpicker.