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By Serpil Oppermann,Serenella Iovino

This vital quantity brings jointly clinical, cultural, literary, historic, and philosophical views to supply new understandings of the serious problems with our ecological current and new types for the production of different ecological futures.

At a time whilst the narrative and theoretical threads of the environmental humanities are extra entwined than ever with the medical, moral, and political demanding situations of the worldwide ecological situation, this quantity invitations us to reconsider the Anthropocene, the posthuman, and the environmental from numerous cross-disciplinary viewpoints. The e-book enriches the environmental debate with new conceptual instruments and revitalizes thematic and methodological collaborations within the trajectory of ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. Alliances among the arts and the social and typical sciences are very important in addressing and discovering practicable options to our planetary predicaments. Drawing on state of the art reports in all of the significant fields of the eco-cultural debate, the chapters during this booklet construct an artistic serious discourse that explores, demanding situations and complements the sphere of environmental humanities.

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