The Literature of Waste: Material Ecopoetics and Ethical Matter

by Susan Signe Morrison

Tracing material and metaphoric waste through the Western canon, ranging from Beowulf to Samuel Beckett, Susan Signe Morrison disrupts traditional perceptions of waste to better understand how we theorize, manage, and are implicated in what is discarded and seen as garbage. Engaging a wide range of disciplines, Morrison addresses how the materiality of waste has been sedimented into a variety of toxic metaphors. If scholars can read waste as possessing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113740566X
• ISBN13: 9781137405661
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"