Environmental humanities on the brink : the vanitas hypothesis /

Environmental humanities on the brink : the vanitas hypothesis /

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In this experimental work of ecocriticism, Vincent Bruyere confronts the seeming pointlessness of the humanities amid spectacularly negative future projections of environmental collapse. The vanitas paintings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries dazzlingly depict heaps of riches alongside skul...

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Main Authors: Bruyère, Vincent (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Bruyère, Vincent (Author)
Corporate Authors: De Gruyter, Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2023]
Stanford, California : [2023]
Subjects:
Ecocriticism
Humanities
Vanitas (Art)
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General
Anthropocene
close reading
early modern
ecocriticism
environmental memory
extinction
humanistic inquiry
still life
vanitas
visual culture

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