Könyv Past the Summit Katherine Wood

Past the Summit

Metaphors and Environmental Ethics in Mountaineering Narratives

Szerző: Katherine Wood
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Puha kötésű
Kiadó: VDM Verlag
Elérhetőség: Kiadói készleten rendelésre
Küldés 17-27 napon belül
20 655 Ft
Mountaineering narratives are ripe for ecocritical §study. §Climbing books describe feats of daring,...

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Szerző
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Puha kötésű
Kiadva
2009
oldal
128
EAN
9783639169690
ISBN
3639169697
Enbook ID
06825313
Kiadó
Súly
200
Méretek
152 x 229 x 8

Teljes leírás

Mountaineering narratives are ripe for ecocritical §study. §Climbing books describe feats of daring, often ending§in heroic §success or miserable tragedy. But few have asked §what implications §mountaineering literature may have on our cultural §mindset and §environmental ethics. This thesis explores that §question, §and examines how metaphors in mountaineering §narratives can §reveal §underlying environmental ethics. While predominant §metaphors §visualize the mountains and environment as §objectives, enemies, and arenas for human§competition, more recent mountaineering texts offer §a wider range §of metaphors, including metaphors of goddess and §spirit. §These §metaphors encourage a sustainable environmental§ethics by implying an interconnected relationship §between earth and§humanity, which may in turn have positive §consequences for human §society. By §understanding the inherent assumptions in language,§we can choose §to resist metaphors that allow us to harm the world§and instead §choose metaphors that will help us keep the entire§biotic community §beautiful and stable.

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