German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene

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<p>This book offers essays on both canonical and non-canonical German-language texts and films, advancing ecocritical models for German Studies, and introducing environmental issues in German literature and film to a broader audience. This volume contextualizes the broad-ranging topics and authors in terms of the Anthropocene, beginning with Goethe and the Romantics and extending into twenty-first-century literature and film. Addressing the growing need for environmental awareness in an international humanities curriculum, this book complements ecocritical analyses emerging from North American and British studies with a specifically German Studies perspective, opening the door to a transnational understanding of how the environment plays an integral role in cultural, political, and economic issues.</p>

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<p>Caroline Schaumann is Associate Professor of German Studies at Emory University, USA. She is the author of <i>Memory Matters: Generational Responses to Germany¿s Nazi Past in Recent Women¿s Literature</i> and co-editor of <i>Heights of Reflection: Mountains in the German Imagination from the Middle Ages to Twenty-First Century</i>.</p> <p> </p> <p>Heather I. Sullivan is<b> </b>Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Trinity University, Texas, USA. She co-edited <i>The Early History of Embodied Cognition</i>, has been a contributing editor to publications such as <i>New German Critique</i>, <i>Colloquia Germanica</i>, and <i>ISLE</i>, and is author of <i>The Intercontextuality of Self and Nature in Ludwig Tieck¿s Early Works</i>.</p>

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