The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy: Wasteland Aesthetics - Paperback
by Aidan Tynan
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781474443364ISBN-10:1474443362UPC:9781474443364Book Category:Literary Criticism, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Modern, Aesthetics, PoliticalBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SC50FPY6MJ
The Desert in Modern Literature and Philosophy: Wasteland Aesthetics
Aidan Tynan provocatively rethinks some of the core assumptions of ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. Showing the significance of deserts and wastelands in literature since the Romantics, he argues that the desert has served to articulate anxieties over the cultural significance of space in the Anthropocene. He explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning that 'the desert grows' has...
Series: Crosscurrents
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781474443364ISBN-10:1474443362UPC:9781474443364Book Category:Literary Criticism, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Modern, Aesthetics, PoliticalBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.8311Product ID:SC50FPY6MJ
Aidan Tynan Senior Lecturer in English literature at Cardiff University. He is the author of Deleuze's Literary Clinic: Criticism and the Politics of Symptoms (Edinburgh, 2012). He had co-edited two volumes: Credo Credit Crisis: Speculations on Faith and Money (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017) and Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Literature (Bloomsbury, 2015).
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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