What Is Sustainability Studies?

The article discusses the field of sustainability studies, with a particular focus on its relationship to literature and the humanities. Details related to a 2004 meeting of several ecocritics, including Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson, and Bill Vitek, are presented. The author is critical of the group's...

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Publicado en:American Literary History Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 1 - 16
Autor principal: Wood, Gillen D'Arcy
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Spring2012
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