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Topic: RSS FeedRozelle, Lee. Ecosublime: Environmental Awe and Terror from New World to Oddworld.(Book review)
ANQ, September, 2006 by Grant, David M.
ROZELLE, Lee. Ecosublime: Environmental Awe and Terror from New Worm to Oddworld. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2005. vii, 134 pp. $29.95.
Approaching his subject matter from the perspective of "a post-Kantian aesthetic theory," Lee Rozelle looks at American literature to "establish new biocentric critiques to address environmental issues from the premodern to the millennial" (1). His critiques are not grounded in a narrow definition of nature as his term ecosublime might suggest. Rather, Rozelle links nature and home as imperiled places wherein we might find awe, terror, and ethical motivation to work against the postmodern, antifoundational critiques that have divided word and world. As he explains in chapter 6, "Decentralized Visions," he does not argue for...
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