Product Description: Ecocriticism has matured beyond nature writing, beyond writing about nature. The essays in this volume look at the broader cultural, historical, sociological, and psychological implications of ecology in written, visual, and sound culture...read more

Product Description: What is it that we do, as a society, as a culture, that supports the waging of any particular war? This study looks at the major turning points of the Twentieth century -- WWI, WWII, Vietnam, the Middle East, and the War on Terrorism -- and argues that our definition of "real" has altered with the ever-increasing "virtual...read more

Product Description: Hellenist tension between the imaginative and rational survives in the post-classical literature of Chanson de Roland, Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, and H.D.'s Helen in Egypt.

Product Description: The writers in this study were living at the edge of change, in a world severely rocked by world conflict -- a 'maelstrom' of upheaval of values, of community standards, and of philosophical visions. Their task was to "give [themselves and others] the power to change the world that is changing them, to make their way through the maelstrom and make it their own...read more