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It addresses the intellectual, moral, and political complexity of environmental questions, especially under the Anthropocene, and traces the field’s rapid transformation into a wide, interdisciplinary space between the humanities and the sciences. Timothy Clark surveys developments while critically examining ecopoetics, material ecocriticism, world literature, and debates over the claim of a new geological epoch.","The Value of Ecocriticism  \nThe Value of Ecocriticism offers a brief, incisive overview of the fast-changing field of environmental literary criticism in a bewildering age of global environmental threat. The intellectual, moral and political complexity of environmental issues, especially at the global scale (the so-called Anthropocene), forms a new challenge of inventiveness for both literature and criticism. Ecocriticism has been going through a period of radical change and has become a diverse and huge field on the exciting but unstable boundary between the humanities and the sciences, with a mix of cultural, political, scientific, and activist strands. Its mantra is that the environmental crisis demands areconsideration of society’s basic values, constitution and purposes, and that art and literature can be vital in that work. As a leading figure in this field, Timothy Clark surveys recent developments in ecocriticism lucidly, but also sometimes critically. This book examines ecopoetics, material ecocriticism, and the ideas of world literature as well as contentious claims that we are living in a new geological epoch.  \nTimothy Clark is a specialist in the environmental humanities and deconstruction. Clark has been a leading figure in the development of new modes of literary criticism engaged with the intellectual revolution inseparable from thinking of global environmental degradation. His previous books include Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept (2015); The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment (2011); and Derrida, Heidegger, Blanchot: Sources of Derrida’s Notion and Practice of Literature (1992) .  \nThe Value of Ecocriticism  \nTimothy Clark University of Durham  \nUniversity Printing House, Cambridge CB2 8BS, United Kingdom One Liberty Plaza, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10006, USA  \n477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, VIC 3207, Australia  \n314–321, 3rd Floor, Plot 3, Splendor Forum, Jasola District Centre, New Delhi – 110025, India  \n79 Anson Road, \\#06-04/06, Singapore 079906  \nCambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge.  \nIt furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence.  \n[www.cambridge.org](www.cambridge.org)  \nInformation on this [title: www.cambridge.org/9781107095298](title: www.cambridge.org/9781107095298)  \n[DOI: 10.1017/9781316155073](DOI: 10.1017/9781316155073)[ ](DOI: 10.1017/9781316155073)© Cambridge University Press 2019  \nThis publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press.  \nFirst published 2019  \nPrinted in the United Kingdom by TJ International Ltd. Padstow Cornwall A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Clark, Timothy, 1958– author.  \nTitle: The value of ecocriticism / Timothy Clark, University of Durham.  \nDescription: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.  \nIdentifiers: LCCN 2018039106 | ISBN 9781107095298 (hardback) | ISBN 9781107479241 (pbk. )  \nSubjects: LCSH: Ecocriticism. | Environmentalism in literature.  \nClassification: LCC PN98.E36.C538 2018 | DDC 809/.933553–dc23  \nLC record available at [https://lccn.loc.gov/2018039106](https://lccn.loc.gov/2018039106)  \n[ISBN 978-1-107-09529-8 Hardback](ISBN 978-1-107-09529-8 Hardback)[ ](ISBN 978-1-107-09529-8 Hardback)[ISBN 978-1-107-47924-1 Paperback](ISBN 978-1-107-47924-1 Paperback)  \nCambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.  \nContents  \nLi","cbCaimPdIUtVPtJY","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimPdIUtVPtJY","pdf",938636,1,194,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n## Green Protest Criticism\n# Anthropocene? 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