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Material Ecocriticism offers new ways to analyze language and reality, human and nonhuman life, mind and matter, without falling into well-worn paths of thinking. Bringing ecocriticism closer to the material turn, the contributions to this landmark volume focus on material forces and substances, the agency of things, processes, narratives and stories, and making meaning out of the world. This broad-ranging reflection on contemporary human experience and expression provokes new understandings of the planet to which we are intimately connected.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
  2. pp. i-vi
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Foreword
  2. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
  3. pp. ix-xii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xiii-xvi
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  1. Introduction: Stories Come to Matter
  2. Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann
  3. pp. 1-18
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  1. Part 1. Theories and Relations
  1. 1. From Ecological Postmodernism to Material Ecocriticism: Creative Materiality and Narrative Agency
  2. Serpil Oppermann
  3. pp. 21-36
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  1. 2. Limits of Agency: Notes on the Material Turn from a Systems-Theoretical Perspective
  2. Hannes Bergthaller
  3. pp. 37-50
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  1. 3. Creative Matter and Creative Mind: Cultural Ecology and Literary Creativity
  2. Hubert Zapf
  3. pp. 51-66
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  1. 4. Natural Play, Natural Metaphor, and Natural Stories: Biosemiotic Realism
  2. Wendy Wheeler
  3. pp. 67-79
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  1. 5. The Ecology of Colors: Goethe’s Materialist Optics and Ecological Posthumanism
  2. Heather I. Sullivan
  3. pp. 80-94
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  1. Part 2. Narratives of Matter
  1. 6. Bodies of Naples: Stories, Matter, and the Landscapes of Porosity
  2. Serenella Iovino
  3. pp. 97-113
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  1. 7. When It Rains
  2. Lowell Duckert
  3. pp. 114-129
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  1. 8. Painful Material Realities, Tragedy, Ecophobia
  2. Simon C. Estok
  3. pp. 130-140
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  1. 9. Semiotization of Matter: A Hybrid Zone between Biosemiotics and Material Ecocriticism
  2. Timo Maran
  3. pp. 141-154
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  1. Part 3. Politics of Matter
  1. 10. Pro/Polis: Three Forays into the Political Lives of Bees
  2. Catriona Sandilands
  3. pp. 157-171
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  1. 11. Excremental Ecocriticism and the Global Sanitation Crisis
  2. Dana Phillips
  3. pp. 172-185
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  1. 12. Oceanic Origins, Plastic Activism, and New Materialism at Sea
  2. Stacy Alaimo
  3. pp. 186-203
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  1. 13. Meditations on Natural Worlds, Disabled Bodies, and a Politics of Cure
  2. Eli Clare
  3. pp. 204-218
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  1. Part 4. Poetics of Matter
  1. 14. Corporeal Fieldwork and Risky Art: Peter Goin and the Making of Nuclear Landscapes
  2. Cheryll Glotfelty
  3. pp. 221-238
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  1. 15. Of Material Sympathies, Paracelsus, and Whitman
  2. Jane Bennett
  3. pp. 239-252
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  1. 16. Source of Life: Avatar, Amazonia, and an Ecology of Selves
  2. Joni Adamson
  3. pp. 253-268
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  1. 17. The Liminal Space between Things: Epiphany and the Physical
  2. Timothy Morton
  3. pp. 269-280
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  1. Coda. Open Closure A Diptych on Material Spirituality
  1. 18. Spirits That Matter: Pathways toward a Rematerialization of Religion and Spirituality
  2. Kate Rigby
  3. pp. 283-290
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  1. 19. Mindful New Materialisms: Buddhist Roots for Material Ecocriticism’s Flourishing
  2. Greta Gaard
  3. pp. 291-300
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  1. Afterword: The Commonwealth of Breath
  2. David Abram
  3. pp. 301-314
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  1. Works Cited
  2. pp. 315-338
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  1. List of Contributors
  2. pp. 339-344
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 345-359
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