The Literature of Waste: Material Ecopoetics and Ethical Matter

Morrison, S.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2015-06-04

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137405661

DOI: 10.1057/9781137394446

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 330