Framing the Environmental Humanities

The Concept Of Framing Has Long Intrigued And Troubled Scholars In Fields Including Philosophy, Rhetoric, Media Studies And Literary Criticism. But Framing Also Has Rich Implications For The Environmental Debate, Urging Us To Reconsider How We Understand The Relationship Between Humans And Their Ecological Environment, Culture And Nature. The Contributors To This Wide-ranging Volume Use The Concept Of Framing To Engage With Key Questions In Environmental Literature, History, Politics, Film, Tv, And Pedagogy. In So Doing, They Show That Framing Can Serve As A Valuable Analytical Tool Connecting Different Academic Discourses Within The Emergent Interdisciplinary Field Of Environmental Humanities. No Less Importantly, They Demonstrate How Increased Awareness Of Framing Strategies And Framing Effects Can Help Us Move Society In A More Sustainable Direction-- Introduction : Framing Nature / Hannes Bergthaller And Peter Mortensen -- Framing In Literary Energy Narratives / Axel Goodbody -- Narrating In Fluid Frames : Overcoming Anthropocentrism In Zora Neale Hurston's Early Short Fiction On Rivers / Matthias Klestil -- Million Years, A Century, A Quarter Of A Mile, A Couple Of Paces : Framing The 'good Step' In Tim Robinson's Stones Of Aran / Pippa Marland -- Ghosts, Power, And The Natures Of Nature : Reconstructing The World Of Jón Guðmundsson The Learned / Viðar Hreinsson -- Reframing Sacred Natural Sites As National Monuments In Estonia : Shifts In Nature-culture Interactions / Ott Heinapuu -- Animals In Norwegian Political Party Programs : A Critical Reading / Morten Tonnessen -- Chemical Unknowns : Preliminary Outline For An Environmental History Of Fear / Michael Egan -- Czeching American Nature Images In The Work Of Robinson Jeffers And John Steinbeck / Petr Kopecky -- Black-and-white Telecasting? Water Pollution On Finnish And Estonian Television During The Cold War / Ottoaleksi Tahkapaa And Simo Laakkonen -- Who's Framing Whom? Surrealism And Science In The Documentaries Of Jean Painleve / Kathryn St. Ours -- Cognitivist Film Theory And The Bioculturalist Turn In Eco-film Studies / David Ingram -- Framing The Alien, Teaching District 9 / Roman Bartosch -- The Nature Study Idea : Framing Nature For Children In Early Twentieth Century Schools / Dorothy Kass -- Matter, Meaning, And The Classroom : A Case-study / Isabel Hoving -- Postscript : Framing The Environmental Humanities / Hannes Bergthaller And Peter Mortensen. Edited By Hannes Bergthaller, Peter Mortensen. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.