TY - BOOK AU - Goodbody,Axel TI - Nature, technology and cultural change in twentieth-century German literature: the challenge of ecocriticism T2 - New perspectives in German studies SN - 9780230535459 AV - PT405 .G647 2007 PY - 2007/// CY - Basingstoke PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - German literature KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Science in literature KW - Technology in literature KW - Environmental policy in literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Table Of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Theoretical Perspectives; Nature in German Culture: The Role of Writers in Environmental Debate; Critiques of Science and Technology; Goethe as Ecophilosophical Inspiration and Literary Model; From Modernist Catastrophe to Postmodern Survival: Technological Disaster in Georg Kaiser's `Gas' Trilogy and Hans Magnus Enzensberger's Untergang der Titanic; Negotiations between Nature and Culture; Heideggerian Ecopoetics and the Nature Poetry Tradition: Naming and Dwelling in Loerke and Bobrowski; The Call of the Wild: Hunting and Ecology in the Stories of Otto Alscher and Horst Stern; Greening the City: From Allotment Colony to Ecology Park in the Novels of Paul Gurk and Gunter Seuren; Conclusion; Nature as a Cultural Project; Notes; Bibliography; Index ER -