Top Research Papers on Ecocriticism

Abstract This review of publications in the field of ecocriticism in 2019 comprises seven sections: 1. Introduction: Ecocriticism, Climate Change, and COVID-19; 2. Anthropocene Ecocriticism; 3. Affective Ecocriticism; 4. Postcolonial Ecocriticism; 5. Zoocriticism and Phytocriticism; 6. Ecocriticism and Ecomedia Studies; 7. Conclusion. The review focuses on six monographs, one edited book, and two journal issues. Ecocriticism publications in 2019 reflect an imperative to devise new means of signification in response to planetary concerns. The biospheric urgencies of the Anthropocene and its cat...

There is a need for ecocriticism to evolve from the shallow ecocriticism to the deep ecocriticism. Arne Naess,a Norwegian ecosopher,develops gestalt ontological ecocriticism, which acknowledges hierarchies of wholes and their non-external, non-extensional, internal relations. He also puts emphasis on maximizing the manifestations of all life. On the basis of this, the theory of spontaneous experience is introduced to serve the purpose of developing ecocriticism, which accounts for the limitations of regional protection of the eco-enviroment nowadays.

Ecocriticism these days is indeed a relatively new revisionist and reformist trend that has dominated the ecological point of view in recent English literature worldwide. The ecological perspective constructed under Eco-criticism delineates the nature-human alliance in both detrimental and constructive ways. The present research paper tries to inspect some post-1900 modern English literature from an Ecocritical perspective. The literature reviewed in the present study incorporates the analysis of some well-known authorship whichever is eminently written to gain insights from the ecological fra...

   The task of the author’s project “ecology without nature” is to use deconstruction to counteract prevailing normative ideas about nature for the sake of sentient beings suffering under catastrophic environmental conditions. Timothy Morton sees in the very idea of nature itself one of the obstacles to truly ecological politics, ethics, philosophy, and art. He calls for a thorough study of how nature is defined as a transcendental, unified and independent category. The study of how art represents the environment makes it possible to see that “nature” is an arbitrary rhetorical construct, devo...

Much ecocriticism scholarship published in 2021 sought to tackle the question of environmental emergency. The work considered in this essay covers a considerable range of topics, temporalities, and spaces, ranging from British histories of industrial extraction to Canada’s polluted waterways in the present, and draws upon an array of disciplinary contexts, including work from literary theory, media studies, the environmental humanities, waste and discard studies, Black studies, feminist theory, and Indigenous studies. I examine works that suggest new ways of understanding our current ‘crisis...

Ecocriticism describes and confronts the socially uneven encounters and entanglements of earthly living. As a political mode of literary and cultural analysis, it aims to understand and intervene in the destruction and diminishment of living worlds. A core premise is that environmental crises have social, cultural, affective, imaginative, and material dimensions. Although ranging in its critical engagements across historical periods, cultural texts, and cultural formations, ecocriticism focuses on the aesthetic modes, social meanings, contexts, genealogies, and counterpoints of cultural practi...

Summary Could it be that the most important function of literature today is to redirect human consciousness to a full consideration of its place in a threatened natural world? Literary scholarship and literature itself are, on the most fundamental level, associated with human values and attitudes. We should, as critics and teachers of literature, consider how literary expression challenges and directs readers to decide what in the world is important to them. We can't afford to shy away from the issue of values -this is the proper domain of literary studies and it's one reason why the humanitie...

The Value of Ecocriticism offers a brief, incisive overview of the fast-changing field of environmental literary criticism in a bewildering age of global environmental threat. The intellectual, moral and political complexity of environmental issues, especially at the global scale (the so-called 'Anthropocene') forms a new challenge of inventiveness for both literature and criticism. Ecocriticism has been going through a period of radical change and has become a diverse and huge field on the exciting but unstable boundary between the humanities and the sciences, with a mix of cultural, politica...

As an academic movement, ecocriticism first appeared on the scene of literary and cultural studies in the later twentieth century. Since then, it has become one of the fastest-growing areas of study and interdisciplinary research in the humanities. Once defined as ‘the study of the relationship between literature and the physical environment’ (C. Glotfelty, The Ecocriticism Reader [1996], p. xix), ecocriticism is a form of literary and cultural criticism that pays special attention to environmental issues and ecological relations in texts and discourses. It studies the way in which diverse his...

German literature has a long memory for the relationship between people and the environments they inhabit. Let us consider Goethe: Goethe’s late novel Wahlverwandschaften, first published in 1809, opens in a tree nursery on a large landed estate, where the owner Eduard has been busy with the task of budding new trees, ‘frisch erhaltene Pfropfreiser auf junge Stämme zu bringen’. He stops work to survey his carefully arranged garden and then goes to join his wife, who has also been industriously engaged in landscaping improvements, noting the wellordered grounds as he passes through:

Ecocriticism is one of the schools of literary criticism concerned with the representation of the environment and ecological issues in the works of literature. It tries to find possible solutions to correct contemporary ecological situations by analyzing the ways nature and environment are presented in literature. Ethiopia has been possessed enormous traditional, cultural and natural resources with different range of latitudinal position and topography which creates variation in climate conditions and diverse biodiversity. However, we are poor because of our lack of ecological consciousness an...

Situated between Europe and Asia, and surrounded by three seas, Turkey comprises a diverse environmental and cultural tapestry. Ecocriticism and Turkey is the first in-depth study to explore Turkish literary and cultural engagements with the environment. Ergin examines a wide range of ecocritical issues across four thematically organized chapters: "Sea," "Climate," "Routes," and "Animals." Each chapter addresses various dimensions of anthropogenic ecological change and highlights the role of literature in inspiring hope and action. The book takes readers on various journeys from the coasts of...

Islands have long been the subject of cultural fascination, but in recent decades, they have exerted an increasingly powerful centrifugal force, sending writers to the outer edges of the British-Irish archipelago in search of inspiration and insight. Drawing on contemporary ecocritical approaches, island studies, and emergent archipelagic perspectives, Ecocriticism and the Island explores a wide selection of island-themed creative non-fiction. Through a combination of textual analysis, and, where possible, original interviews and archival research, Pippa Marland offers new insights into the ...

Intermedial Ecocriticism: The Climate Crisis Through Art and Media provides an extensive understanding of the climate crisis as it is represented in a number of medial forms, including scientific reports, popular science, graphic novels, documentaries, websites, feature films, and advertising. Theoretically, this is the first book that combines two important theories from the humanities: ecocriticism and intermedial studies. The book carefully develops Intermedial Ecocriticism as a method of investigating how climate crisis is represented and communicated through diverse media types. The chapt...

ABSTRACT A range of possible ecocritical responses to the June 2016 ‘Brexit’ referendum decision are reviewed. English nationalism is identified as a key factor in Leavers’ cultural identity, which motivates close attention to contemporary defences of the English countryside and depictions of English ethnic identity and pastoral loss. The potential for empathetic and depolarising treatment of conservative cultures of nature is assessed.

      Ecocriticism has gained visibility in Turkish academia in the early 2000s. This essay offers a brief analysis of the status of the field in Turkey and sheds light on the growing interest in ecology in both academic and non-academic circles. I first overview the academic conventions and publications that provided the initial momentum for the birth of Turkish ecocriticism. I examine past and current trends in ecocritical studies by surveying the latest academic publications, literary works and traditions that lend themselves to ecocritical analyses, and specific ecological questions pertin...

Timothy Clark. 2019. The Value of Ecocriticism. New York: Cambridge University Press.Eduardo V. Oyarzun, Rebeca G. Valverde, Noelia M. García, María C. Jiménez, and Rebeca C. Sánchez, eds. 2020. Avenging Nature: The Role of Nature in Modern and Contemporary Art and Literature. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

In recent years, medieval studies has seen a flourishing of new ecocritical and environmental inquiries to literature, art, and culture. These new approaches, drawing upon the material, spatial , and post-human turns in humanities research, have directed scholarly attention to representations and histories of the nonhuman, and to the inarguable necessity of studying both human/human and human/non-human interactions in texts and cultures. Medieval Ecocriticisms is the first regular venue dedicated to medieval ecocritical studies, and seeks out the most current and innovative interdisciplinary a...

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value that Saidian post-colonial theory can gain from combination with works from political economy. With this case study, Spencer articulates the utility of political economy in developing a richer understanding of the key contemporary debates that post-colonial theory grapples with. It is an excellent conclusion to this book as it applies the theoretical frameworks that have been argued for and developed throughout the volume. This analysis is both salient and insightful; it shows that the methodology debated throughout this volume has tangible application, and an event as imminently impactf...

Black geographies and Black ecologies are epistemological frameworks that attend to the ideological, philosophical, and material portent of Black movements in dialectical, but not deterministic, relationships with the geographies and environments of Black life and struggle. This article reviews the Black geographies and Black ecologies literature, showing the convergence of these bodies of scholarship around themes of racial, spatial, and ecological justice. The thematic, methodological, and analytical overlaps between Black geographies and Black ecologies are quite apropos for understanding t...

This article is about literature, culture and landscapes with the addition of translation. My intention is twofold. First I aim to call the attention of Ecocriticism to the importance of translated texts as main texts; secondly, I will emphasise the opening of a new perspective in Translation Studies related to this new way of thinking about the relationships between literature and place when translating it. In order to perform this task, Walden, a signicant piece of work in Ecocriticism, by D. H. Thoreau, and some translated versions of this work into Spanish are the object of study.First I w...

Ecocriticism is a literary critical school rising in the 1990s with the intensification of ecological crisis.It is the study of the relationship between literature and environment.Ecological studies are targeted on re-examining culture and digging up the cultural roots of the ecological crises.Scholars of humanities and social sciences may contribute their efforts to the construction of environment-friendly society through their work of eradicating the old ideologies.This is where the value of ecological studies may be found.This paper is a general review of ecocriticism from the following asp...

The supposed interdisciplinariness which humanistic sciences, such as philology and anthropology, often claim remains, as often as not, in simple wordiness, particularly in the area of ecocriticism. Most specialists tend to ignore the techniques and methods of other disciplines, and therefore researchers lack the benefit which could come out of their intersection. The spanish case is clear; despite the fact that the Americanist anthropology which is practiced in Spain is clearly of an ecocritical bent, one does not perceive in debate forums or publications any encounters between philology and ...

Foreword by Ursula Heise Acknowledgements Introduction by Yuki Masami Chapter 1: Exploring Ecocritical Perspectives by Juxtaposing The Tale of Genji's "Suma" chapter with Folktales by Marjorie Rhine Chapter 2: Taoka Reiun and Environmental Thought in the Early 1900s by Ronald Loftus by Chapter 3: Kyoko Matsunaga Radioactive Discourse and Atomic Bomb Texts: Ota Yoko, Sata Ineko, and by Hayashi Kyoko Chapter 4: Abe Kobo in Ecosophy by Toshiya Ueno Chapter 5: Literary ground opened in fissures: The Great East Japan Earthquake and Oe Kenzaburo's In Late Style by Haga Koichi Chapter 6: Oe and the U...

Vancouver, BC, 9 January 2015Chair: Lissa Schneider-RebozoThe year 2015 saw the Modern Language Association turn broadly toward ecocriticism and environmental humanities (the Vancouver conference was the first to host a recognized forum on such topics). Contributing to this momentum was the timely and well-attended panel, "Conrad and Ecocriticism," which was sponsored by the Joseph Conrad Society of America and moderated by Lissa Schneider-Rebozo.Panelists Mark Deggan, Nidesh Lawtoo, Aleksandr Prigozhin, and Jeffrey McCarthy discussed the complex interaction of bodies, natures, and politics wi...

While from a formal perspective, ecocriticism barely exists in Swiss literature departments, there is significant interest and publications on environmental approaches to literature and culture, under different guises. Research on concepts of landscape, nature and place are multiple in English, German and Spanish departments. There is significant activity in the field of environmental ethics and human-animal relations. Moreover, some innovative research such as cultural representations of acoustic ecology, environmental risk, or changing perceptions and attitudes towards nature in scientific t...

Key words: sustainable development, globalization, environmental justice, environmental disasters This brief article provides an overview of the recently established chapter of ASLE-Taiwan, the result of efforts and contributions made by scholars from leading universities interested in environmental issues and specializing in ecocriticism and environmental literature for more than a decade. Worthy of my special mentioning is the contributions made by the English Department of Tamkang University, one of the leading institutions focusing on ecocriticism in its PhD program. Tamkang University has...

Review of the thematic issue of Nerter, a Spanish literary journal, on Ecocriticism.Recension del monografico sobre Ecocritica de Nerter, una revista literaria espanola.

Abstract: This essay argues that ecocriticism today has acclimatized transnational perspectives, and that transnationalization of ecocriticism explains its propensity to move beyond its insular focus on geographical and U.S.-based paradigms. In its transition from what Ursula Heise calls “ethics of proximity to a cosmopolitan ethic”, ecocriticism is constructing a vision of “ecoglobalism”. Sketching a broad overview of this development, I contend that transnationalization of ecocriticism does not necessarily induce an opposition between the local and global sense of place; rather, ecocriticism...

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Key words: environmental ethics, acoustic ecology, environmental risk, interdisciplinarity While from a formal perspective, ecocriticism barely exists in Swiss literature departments, there is significant interest and publications on environmental approaches to literature and culture, under different guises. Research on concepts of landscape, nature and place are multiple in English, German and Spanish departments. There is significant activity in the field of environmental ethics and human-animal relations. Moreover, some innovative research such as cultural representations of acoustic ecolog...

It is common to think of English as a cultural subject rather than an environmental one. Traditionally teachers of English have been hailed as 'the preachers of culture' (Matthieson 1975) with a mission to develop both personal and national identity. Despite a shift towards explicit teaching of literacy as the main concern of English, a focus on the personal and cultural mission of English is still deeply important to teachers and remains within curriculum guidance in New Zealand (and other English speaking countries such as England and the US).

As a theory of literary criticism started in the middle of 1990s in Europe and America, Ecocriticism studies the relationship between literature and the natural environment. Although it is newly born, it has become a focus of attention of the Chinese and western scholars. The author of the thesis attempts to make a comprehensive study of the Ecocriticism theories to clarify its definition and ultimate goal.

Maurice Merleau‐Ponty was in his last years deeply concerned with the problems of bioethics and the flesh of the world in the biota....

Abstract Towards the end of the eighteenth century the Austrian physician, Anton Mesmer, posited the existence of a universal fluid that surrounds, penetrates, and connects all bodies, much like the interplanetary forces of attraction and repulsion. The correct flow of this fluid, he believed, was responsible for both physical and psychic health and he developed his practice of animal magnetism as a therapy for those who experienced the ranging symptoms of its blockage. Because the fluid’s existence could not be proven, however, the practice was condemned and Mesmer was banished from Paris. In...

How effectual is ecocriticism at practically addressing our most pressing and poignant global environmental issues? What hope through words? We organized this special issue of the Journal of Ecocriticism to consider the application and relevance of our-kind-of-thing, this marriage between words, texts, and earth; between criticism and trees; between the library carrel and the Greenland ice sheet. Tasked to consider how such a project operates within the strictures of ephemeral literary criticism while simultaneously considering what happens on the ground, “The Function of Ecocriticism” demands...

      Our relationships to the environments that surround, sustain, and sometimes threaten us are fraught with emotion. And since, as neurologist Antonio Damasio has shown, cognition is directly linked to emotion, and emotion is linked to the feelings of the body, our physical environment influences not only how we feel, but also what we think. Importantly, this also holds true when we interact with artistic representations of such environments, as we find them in literature, film, and other media. For this reason, our emotions can take a rollercoaster ride when we read a book or watch a film....

Serious concerns have been circulating in academia regarding humanities and how they have been relegated to the backbenches. Data reveal a remarkable decline in submissions for humanities if compared to non-humanities. The current paper proposes that despite this decline, humanities have always been and will continue to be a moving force in shaping intellectual attitudes worldwide. To prove this standpoint, the author employs ecocriticism and eco-poetry as influential sub-disciplines of humanities. With the rocket-speed changeability of the present time, ecocriticism and eco-poetry play a cruc...

According to Indian philosophy, human body is said to be formed of five elements – Panchtattva, namely earth (prithvi), water (apas), fire (agni), air (vayu) and aether (akasha). From the birth of an individual till his death, the Indian way of life is closely connected to nature. From home hearths to the funeral pyres, wood and fire are predominantly present. A newborn is consecrated with the holy waters of Ganges and the ashes of the dead are immersed in the same holy water. Indians have long had an intense connection with nature. This connection is clearly reflected in the Indian mythology....

Aging Studies and Ecocriticism: Interdisciplinary Encounters argues that both aging studies and ecocriticism address the complex dynamics of individual and collective agency, oppression and dependency, care and conviviality, vulnerability and resistance as well as intergenerationality and responsibility. Yet, even though both fields employ overlapping methodologies and theoretical frameworks and scrutinize “boundary texts” in different literary genres, which have been analyzed from ecocritical perspectives as well as from the vantage point of critical aging studies, there has been little schol...

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Ecocriticism has come a long way since its beginning. It has divergent trajectories that evoked different striking terms like ‘wave’, the ‘rhizome’ and ‘palimpsest’. Lawrence Buell defines the first two waves of ecocriticism in his book The Future of Environmental Criticism (2005) and extends the development in the field to third and fourth wave. Whereas Rayson K. Alex identifies and contextualizes three phases of ecocriticism in India starting from 1980’s to present day. Alex distinguishes Indian ecocriticism from western ecocriticism. In the present scenario, various conferences and seminars...

Ecocriticism, an interdisciplinary approach at the intersection of literature and environmental studies, scrutinizes the representation and influence of nature and the environment in literary works. This review paper delves into the evolution, methodologies, and key themes of ecocriticism, highlighting its significance in contemporary literary criticism. The paper begins with an exploration of ecocriticism's origins, tracing its roots to the environmental movements of the late 20th century, and its establishment as a critical framework that challenges anthropocentric perspectives. The analysis...

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Art is subversive when it crosses the boundary of the generally acceptable, though over time such art can and does become mainstream. A much more complicated question is what is subversive in aesthetics? Ecocriticism has already become, along with ecofeminism and animal studies, an academic discipline. It can be defined as subversive if it is understood in terms of an attitude, which is not anthropocentric. And here is the catch: how can the human also encompass the alien? The question that emerges here is all but rhetorical: how can we decentre and amplify our human consciousness and perspect...

Ecocriticism has been one of the widely discussed terms in the present times owing to the ecological disturbances all throughout the globe. No country, no continent has escaped the wrath of Mother Nature. In order to find a viable solution to this ever increasing and ever challenging threat, various disciplines have to come together as a wholesome group so that ecological awareness can be generated in all walks of life. Ecocriticism is one such interdisciplinary study which brings together both literature and ecology to address ecological problems. The present study is a small step in this dir...

Nature and literature have always shared a close relationship as is evidenced in the works of poets and other writers down the ages in almost all cultures of the world. Today the intimate relationship between the natural and social world is being analyzed and emphasized in all departments of knowledge and development. The literary critic tries to study how this close relationship between nature and society has been textualized by the writers in their works. In this context two terms have become very important today – ecology and ecocriticism. India is a country with variety of ecosystems which...

“Where does the posthuman dwell? At what address? And in what type of house?” These questions, borrowed from the opening of Deborah Amberson and Elena Past’s essay on “Gadda’s Pasticciaccio and the Knotted Posthuman Household,” tickle our eco -accustomed ears – ears that more often than not like to take ideas back to their earthly dwelling, something that the Greek all-too famously called oikos . In our case, however, to provide the right answer to these questions is definitely challenging and might require a little “veering.” The reason is simple: situated by definition in a mobile space of m...

Ecocriticism gained a growing interest from researchers and writers on different levels to examine the significance of this newly added area of literary studies. It enabled the readers to understand their society's environmental issues in a better way and encouraged them to deal with them positively. It also drew attention to the different negative behaviors and attitudes towards nature to the limit that may damage natural resources and affect future generations. Furthermore, ecocriticism played a vital role in restructuring a more balanced and harmonious relationship between human and non-hum...