00000nam a22000008i 4500 UP-1685523046126108295 Buklod 20230522180428.0 m |o d | cr ||||||||||| 230522s2022 nju o z eng 9780691230429 (ebook) 22123163 DLC DCAL rda eng PN 98 E36 P83 2022eb Puchner, Martin 1969- author. Literature for a changing planet Martin Puchner. Princeton Princeton University Press 2022. 1 online resource (145 pages) illustrations text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "Reading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddling while Rome burns. Yet, at this turning point for the planet, scientists, policymakers, and activists have woken up to the power of stories to fight global warming. In Literature for a Changing Planet, Martin Puchner ranges across four thousand years of world literature to draw vital lessons about how we put ourselves on the path of climate change-and how we might change paths before it's too late. From the Epic of Gilgamesh and the West African Epic of Sunjata to the Communist Manifesto, Puchner reveals world literature in a new light-as an archive of environmental exploitation and a product of a way of life responsible for climate change. Literature depends on millennia of intensive agriculture, urbanization, and resource extraction, from the clay of ancient tablets to the silicon of e-readers. Yet literature also offers powerful ways to change attitudes toward the environment. Puchner uncovers the ecological thinking behind the idea of world literature since the early nineteenth century, proposes a new way of reading in a warming world, shows how literature can help us recognize our shared humanity, and discusses the possible futures of storytelling. If we are to avoid environmental disaster, we must learn to tell the story of humans as a species responsible for global warming. Filled with important insights about the fundamental relationship between storytelling and the environment, Literature for a Changing Planet is a clarion call for readers and writers who care about the fate of life on the planet"--Provided by publisher. Climatic changes in literature. Ecocriticism. Literature History and criticism. Electronic books. Electronic resource Available for the University of the Philippines Diliman on campus and remote access via EBSCO eBooks. Click here to access thru OpenAthens http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2967871 (viewed 12 May 2023) FO UPD DCAL PN 98 E36 P83 2022EB Electronic Resource