Book contents
- A Global History of Literature and the Environment
- A Global History of Literature and the Environment
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology of Major Works Discussed
- Introduction
- Part I Beginnings
- Chapter 1 The Natural World in Ancient Mesopotamian Literature
- Chapter 2 Environments of Early Chinese and Japanese Literatures
- Chapter 3 The Garden of Eden in the Hebrew Bible
- Chapter 4 Ecopoetics and the Literature of Ancient India
- Chapter 5 Ancient Greek Literature and the Environment:A Case Study with Pindar’s Olympian 7
- Chapter 6 “Who Shall be a Sustainer?”: Maize and Human Mediation in the Maya Popol Vuh
- Chapter 7 I Invoke God, Therefore I Am: Creation’s Spirituality and Its Ecologic Impact in Islamic Texts
- Part II The Development of Humanism and the Industrial Age
- Part III The Anthropocene
- Further Readings
- Index
Chapter 2 - Environments of Early Chinese and Japanese Literatures
from Part I - Beginnings
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 January 2017
- A Global History of Literature and the Environment
- A Global History of Literature and the Environment
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology of Major Works Discussed
- Introduction
- Part I Beginnings
- Chapter 1 The Natural World in Ancient Mesopotamian Literature
- Chapter 2 Environments of Early Chinese and Japanese Literatures
- Chapter 3 The Garden of Eden in the Hebrew Bible
- Chapter 4 Ecopoetics and the Literature of Ancient India
- Chapter 5 Ancient Greek Literature and the Environment:A Case Study with Pindar’s Olympian 7
- Chapter 6 “Who Shall be a Sustainer?”: Maize and Human Mediation in the Maya Popol Vuh
- Chapter 7 I Invoke God, Therefore I Am: Creation’s Spirituality and Its Ecologic Impact in Islamic Texts
- Part II The Development of Humanism and the Industrial Age
- Part III The Anthropocene
- Further Readings
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- A Global History of Literature and the Environment , pp. 37 - 51Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016