Nature, technology and cultural change in twentieth-century German literature : the challenge of ecocriticism / Axel Goodbody.

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