Robert T. Tally Jr. and Christine M. Battista, ed. Ecocriticism and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Literary Studies New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
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Pascale Casanova, in her “Literature As A World,” [New Left Review 32 (2005): 71-90], provides “the art of distance” which she defines as “a way of situating oneself, aesthetically, neither too near nor too far,” or more realistically “a set of strategies linked to the writers’ positions, their written language, their location in literary space, to the distance or proximity they want to establish with the prestige-bestowing centre.” In fact, this art of “distancing,” to redirect Casanova’s spatial term in terms of a Heideggerian temporal “presencing,” is a way of situating oneself in a better position of being give the best chance of being perceived. In this context, Robert T. Tally Jr. and Christine M. Battista’s collected essays, Ecocriticism and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Literary Studies, is a good example of “presencing” to bring geocriticism and ecocriticism together. Their essays put “the cartographic anxieties of modernity” and “ecological crises” in, and question the issue of spaces, places, or territories in terms of “threats,” the list of which is rather comprehensive: “erratic weather patterns and disasters due to climate change and erosion, species extinction, resource depletion, biochemical toxicity, increased cancer-related illnesses, and innumerable deaths associated with the industrial and environmental hazards” (4-5). The essays included in Ecocriticism and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Literary Studies offer new timely ways of seeing literature, ecology, geography, and the world by bringing ecocriticism and geocriticism into “productive relation, offering new ways of seeing literature, ecology, and geography, as well as the world that necessarily subsumes and contains them” (4). As Tally and Battista point out in their “Introduction,” the contributors initiate an approach that brings ecocriticism and geocriticism together which have much in common, and their essays provide a wide spectrum of perspective, from which they combine ecocritical and geocritical practices for making sense of the social, natural, and spatio-temporal world we inhabit.
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Pascale Casanova, in her “Literature As A World,” [New Left Review 32 (2005): 71-90], provides “the art of distance” which she defines as “a way of situating oneself, aesthetically, neither too near nor too far,” or more realistically “a set of strategies linked to the writers’ positions, their written language, their location in literary space, to the distance or proximity they want to establish with the prestige-bestowing centre.” In fact, this art of “distancing,” to redirect Casanova’s spatial term in terms of a Heideggerian temporal “presencing,” is a way of situating oneself in a better position of being give the best chance of being perceived. In this context, Robert T. Tally Jr. and Christine M. Battista’s collected essays, Ecocriticism and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Literary Studies, is a good example of “presencing” to bring geocriticism and ecocriticism together. Their essays put “the cartographic anxieties of modernity” and “ecological crises” in, and question the issue of spaces, places, or territories in terms of “threats,” the list of which is rather comprehensive: “erratic weather patterns and disasters due to climate change and erosion, species extinction, resource depletion, biochemical toxicity, increased cancer-related illnesses, and innumerable deaths associated with the industrial and environmental hazards” (4-5). The essays included in Ecocriticism and Geocriticism: Overlapping Territories in Environmental and Spatial Literary Studies offer new timely ways of seeing literature, ecology, geography, and the world by bringing ecocriticism and geocriticism into “productive relation, offering new ways of seeing literature, ecology, and geography, as well as the world that necessarily subsumes and contains them” (4). As Tally and Battista point out in their “Introduction,” the contributors initiate an approach that brings ecocriticism and geocriticism together which have much in common, and their essays provide a wide spectrum of perspective, from which they combine ecocritical and geocritical practices for making sense of the social, natural, and spatio-temporal world we inhabit.