1st Edition

Decolonising Pastoral Semiotic Freedom in Literature and Culture

By Thomas Bristow Copyright 2025
218 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of pastoral, a genre that has captured the Western imagination for centuries, across literature, art and music.  Combining the practices of literary criticism and creative writing, Decolonising Pastoral develops a new series of tools for the project of the environmental humanities. With an emphasis on subjectivity and experience, essays... Read more

1. Biosemiotics for Literary Studies  2. Semiotic Freedom and Creativity  3. Blue Humanities and Creative Writing  4. Synthetic Criticism in the Humanities Ecosystem  5. Imperial Metrics for Decolonising Pastoral  6. The Lives of Signs  Post-script

Biography

Thomas Bristow is an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for the History of Emotions, University of Western Australia.