![]() ![]() "Building on her seminal work exploring Chaucerian fecopoetics, Excrement in the Late Middle Ages, Morrison extends her brave march into the deepest and dirtiest corners of history's societal relationship with waste. I have a new appreciation for the meaning of waste after reading this work." - Scott Slovic, Professor of English, University of Idaho, USA and coeditor of Numbers and Nerves: Information, Emotion, and Meaning in a World of Data ![]() This is a book that builds wisely upon recent materialist trends in ecocriticism and helps to chart the future of the discipline. This phrase beautifully describes both the mélange of cultural residue that constitutes modern civilization and the concatenation of disparate sources that informs Morrison's lively, profound, and encyclopedic The Literature of Waste. "'These fragments I have shored against my ruins,' writes T.S. ![]() With its emphasis on aesthetics, ethics, literature, and community, The Literature of Waste makes a strong argument for why the humanities matter - and why the matter the humanities explores must also include waste." - Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Professor of English, George Washington University, USA Wide ranging, lucidly composed, and original, the book inspires and provokes. "An unparalleled work of literary and cultural criticism, The Literature of Waste brings together the new materialism, ecocriticism and environmental ethics to articulate the transformative and trans-temporal project of waste studies. ![]()
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