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- Title
Beyond Imagining, Imagining Beyond.
- Authors
Keller, Lynn
- Abstract
The article discusses the discourse of sustainability, focusing on the socially constructed meanings of the word and its representations in literature and culture. The author comments on the use of literature to raise questions about the Earth's future and to engage the cultural imagination. Other topics explored include concepts of nature writing, humanities' impact on environmental public policy, and the relationship between environmentalism and capitalism.
- Subjects
SUSTAINABILITY &; society; ECOLOGY in literature; FUTURE in literature; SOCIAL constructionism; HUMANITIES -- Social aspects; ENVIRONMENTAL policy -- Social aspects
- Publication
PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 2012, Vol 127, Issue 3, p579
- ISSN
0030-8129
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1632/pmla.2012.127.3.579