Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative by Alexa Weik

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How do we experience the virtual environments in literature and film on the sensory and emotional level? How do environmental narratives invite us to care for human and nonhuman others at risk? Weik von Mossner explores these questions that are important to anyone interested in the emotional, persuasive power of environmental narratives.

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Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative explores our emotional engagement with environmental narrative. Focusing on the American cultural context, Alexa Weik von Mossner develops an ecocritical approach that draws on the insights of affective science and cognitive narratology. This approach helps to clarify how we interact with environmental narratives in ways that are both biologically universal and culturally specific. In doing so, it pays particular attention to the thesis that our minds are both embodied (in a physical body) and embedded (in a physical environment), not only when we interact with the real world but also in our engagement with imaginary worlds. How do we experience the virtual environments we encounter in literature and film on the sensory and emotional level? How do environmental narratives invite us to care for human and nonhuman others who are put at risk? And how do we feel about the speculative futures presented to us in ecotopian and ecodystopian texts? Weik von Mossner explores these central questions that are important to anyone with an interest in the emotional appeal and persuasive power of environmental narratives.

Author Biography

Alexa Weik von Mossner is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria.

Review

"The field of cognitive cultural studies has exploded in the past decade or so, and this study fits precisely into this field. As someone who has been working in the field of 'psychological ecocriticism' for the past quarter-century, I can say that I've been waiting a long time for exactly this kind of book to appear!" --Scott Slovic, coeditor of Numbers and Nerves: Information, Emotion, and Meaning in a World of Data and Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development: Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism "Affective Ecologies breaks genuinely new ground and uses a body of theory, concepts, and critical tools that can significantly contribute to strengthening or falsifying the claims of ecocritics about the psychological and political impacts of environmental writing and film, which have so far remained largely speculative. This is a book with real potential for transformative impact."--Ursula Heise, author of Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global.

Review Quote

"The field of cognitive cultural studies has exploded in the past decade or so, and this study fits precisely into this field. As someone who has been working in the field of 'psychological ecocriticism' for the past quarter-century, I can say that I've been waiting a long time for exactly this kind of book to appear!" --Scott Slovic, coeditor of Numbers and Nerves: Information, Emotion, and Meaning in a World of Data and Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development: Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism " Affective Ecologies breaks genuinely new ground and uses a body of theory, concepts, and critical tools that can significantly contribute to strengthening or falsifying the claims of ecocritics about the psychological and political impacts of environmental writing and film, which have so far remained largely speculative. This is a book with real potential for transformative impact."--Ursula Heise, author of Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global .

Details ISBN0814254012 Pages 288 Language English ISBN-10 0814254012 ISBN-13 9780814254011 Media Book Format Paperback Series Cognitive Approaches to Culture Year 2017 Imprint Ohio State University Press Subtitle Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative Country of Publication United States Illustrations Illustrations, black and white Publication Date 2017-05-16 UK Release Date 2017-05-16 Place of Publication Columbus, OH AU Release Date 2017-05-16 NZ Release Date 2017-05-16 US Release Date 2017-05-16 Author Alexa Weik Von Mossner Publisher Ohio State University Press DEWEY 809.93353 Audience General We've got this

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