TY - JOUR
AU - Turner, Kyndra
AB - 674 IS LE Lewis and Tolkien, in contrast, approach the numinous through out- wards means. In their works, apocalypse provides a path to the numi- nous, allowing interactions with alternative views of existence. Blackwood's and Le Guin's less theistic works question Western and Christian worldviews, and they are thus prized by Brawley for their ability to draw readers into nonanthropocentric paradigms. Fantasy and environmental literature scholars will find this book enticing. Through interaction with fantasy literature, Brawley succeeds in widening the field of ecocriticism to include nonmimetic literature. He argues that the subversiveness of mythopoeic fantasy exposes readers to the numinous in reality, providing the impetus for a shift to an ecological paradigm. Fantasy offers an engagement with the non- human that challenges the boundaries of the self, which is, as Brawley explains, precisely the ideological goal of ecocriticism. Through mythopoeic fantasy literature, we can reengage with the sacramental nature of the world around us. Carissa Beckwith University of Utah Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 22.3 (Summer 2015) Advance Access publication August 12, 2015 doi:10.1093/isle/isv055 © The Author(s) 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. All rights 
TI - Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Age of Biopolitics
JO - ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
DO - 10.1093/isle/isv056
DA - 2015-09-12
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/insistence-of-the-material-literature-in-the-age-of-biopolitics-cXRpgfXb7Q
SP - 674
EP - 675
VL - 22
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -