Re-Imagining Nature Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics [Paperback]

Re-Imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics explores new horizons in environmental studies, drawing on both the new field of ecosemiotics and pre-modern traditional cultures. It considers communication and meaning as core definitions of ecological life, essential to deep sustainability and the new relevance of the humanities in environmental studies.Re-Imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics explores new horizons in environmental studies, which consider communication and meaning as core definitions of ecological life, essential to deep sustainability. It considers landscape as narrative, and applies theoretical frameworks in eco-phenomenology and ecosemiotics to literary, historical, and philosophical study of the relationship between text and landscape. It considers in particular examples and lessons to be drawn from case studies of medieval and Native American cultures, to illustrate in an applied way the promise of environmental humanities today. In doing so, it highlights an environmental future for the humanities, on the cutting edge of cultural endeavor today.ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: Introduction - Song, Tree, and Spring: Environmental Meaning and the Environmental HumanitiesPart One: BackgroundsChapter 2: The Ecopoetics of Creation: Genesis LXX 1-3By Alfred Kentigern SiewersChapter 3: Place and Sign: Locality as a Foundation for EcosemioticsBy Timo MaranChapter 4: Learning from Temple Grandin, or, Animal Studies, Disability Studies, and Who Comes after the SubjectBy Cary WolfePart Two: Medieval NaturesChapter 5: The Secret Folds of Nature: Eriugena's Expansive Concept of NatureBy Dermot MoranChapter 6: The Nature of Miracles in Early Irish Saints LivesBy John CareyChapter 7: Inventing with Animals in the Middle AgesBy Jeffrey Jerome CohenPart Three: Re-Negotiating Native NaturesChapter 8: The Yua as LogoiBy Fr Michael OleksaChapter 9: Intersubjectivity with Nature in Plains Indian Visiol›