The Literature of Waste: Material Ecopoetics and Ethical Matter

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 dynamic agency, how might that change the ethics of refuse-ing and ostracizing wasted humans? A major contribution to the growing field of Waste Studies, this comparative and theoretically innovative book confronts the reader with the ethical urgency present in waste literature itself.

Author: S. Morrison
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 06/04/2015
Pages: 330
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9781137405661

About the Author
Susan Signe Morrison is Professor of English at Texas State University, USA.