Eco-scritture. Geografia, ambiente e resilienza nella letteratura tedesca

The essays collected in this volume interrogate the various modes of interaction, osmosis, and correlation between the subject and the natural environment, and propose an alternative ecocritical paradigm for re-reading the German literary and cultural canon in light of new perspectives and hermeneutic practices capable of engaging with a pervasively interspecific nature—one that is invariably viscous and unsettled. Divided into three sections, the contributions examine the environmental turn in contemporary German theatre, reconstruct the rhetorics of metamorphosis from the writings of J. W. Goethe to contemporary poetry, and finally venture into the semiosis of contaminated territories, experimenting with no longer anthropocentric readings of literary works in their material entanglements with ecosystems.