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...

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 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...

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...

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 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.

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...

Health is a reciprocal term that combines mutual co-existence in the environment with a considerable veneration to all forms of life. Life on earth is a result of some favourable conditions in the environment from the empirical point of view. So, the health of the environment remains the supreme, and thereby life, once created, has to keep up the conditions in order to sustain or survive itself. Thus there has always been a fascinating relation between health and environment since the dawn of creation of life on earth. Among the innumerable forms of life on earth human beings are considered th...

Ecocriticism is a theory discussing the relationship between literary and natural environment,aiming at fixing the tie among literary,nature and culture,improving people's consciousness of protecting environment.This paper discusses its beginning,development and meaning in order to re-seek the pastoral ideal of the harmony between human being and nature that has been lost in the industrial civilization.

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.

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 ...

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selecta from metaphors in the Bible and the Koran. The author identifies source domains common to both (four dominant ones are journeys, weather, fire and light, and plants), but also concludes that the Koran is less metaphorical, and has fewer productive source domains, than the Bible. He discusses the reasons for the differences, emphasizing that ‘nowhere is the combined cognitive and emotive effect of metaphor more evident than in religious texts’ (p. 239). Charteris-Black’s excellent book shows that after the wholesale turn of the linguistic toward the cognitive, metaphor scholars are righ...

Domestic ecocriticism initiated in 1980s,formally launched in 1990s,preliminarily flourished in the 21st Century.On the one side,domestic ecocriticism developed rapidly and made notable achievements,on the other side,it accumulated many problems.These problems mainly were the inadequate understanding of connotation and meaning of ecocriticism,inadequate exploration and utilization of domestic ecoliterature resources,inadequate interpretation to literature texts and inadequate ecological duty sense and ecological mission sense.

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...

The Ecocriticism Reader(1996)is the first collection of papers on ecocriticism in the world,and is generally regarded as the ABC book of ecocriticism.It studies the basic ideas,the main terms and the criterions of ecocriticism and has great influence upon the appearance and development of ecocriticism in many countries,including China.It discusses such basic problems as the definition of ecocriticism,the criticism of anthropocentrism,and ecological duty.

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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...