Top Research Papers on Ecocriticism

Ecocriticism bezeichnet aktuelle kultur- und literaturwissenschaftliche Ansätze, die die Beziehungen zwischen dem Menschen und seiner Umwelt sowie ihre Transformationen in der Literatur- und Kulturges

Journal Article Material Ecocriticism Get access Material Ecocriticism. Edited by Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann. Bloomington: U of Indiana P, 2014. 376 pp. Paper $40.00. Kyle Bladow Kyle Bladow University of Nevada, Reno kbladow@unr.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Volume 22, Issue 4, Autumn 2015, Pages 916–918, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isw007 Published: 23 March 2016

Written by one of Europe’s leading critics, Ecocriticism and Italy reads the diverse landscapes of Italy in the cultural imagination. From death in Venice as a literary trope and petrochemical curse, through the volcanoes of Naples to wine, food and environmental violence in Piedmont, Serenella Iovino explores Italy as a text where ecology and imagination meet. Examining texts where justice, society and politics interlace with stories of land and life, ecosystems and body cells, pollution and redemption, the book argues that literature, art and criticism are able to transform the unexpressed v...

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 wo...

Bringing together decolonial, Romantic and global literature perspectives, Transcultural Ecocriticism explores innovative new directions for the field of environmental literary studies. By examining these literatures across a range of geographical locations and historical periods – from Romantic period travel writing to Chinese science fiction and Aboriginal Australian poetry – the book makes a compelling case for the need for ecocriticism to competently translate between Indigenous and non-Indigenous, planetary and local, and contemporary and pre-modern perspectives. Leading scholars from Aus...

This second edition of Postcolonial Ecocriticism, a book foundational for its field, has been updated to consider recent developments in the area such as environmental humanities and animal studies. Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin examine transverse relations between humans, animals and the environment across a wide range of postcolonial literary texts and also address key issues such as global warming, food security, human over-population in the context of animal extinction, queer ecology, and the connections between postcolonial and disability theory. Considering the postcolonial first from a...

Although treated as two distinct schools of thought, ecocriticism and geocriticism have both placed emphasis on the lived environment, whether through social or natural spaces. For the first time, thi

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...

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.

This book expounds fruitful ways of analysing matters of ecology, environments, nature, and the non-human world in a broad spectrum of material in French. Scholars from Canada, France, Great Britain, Spain, and the United States examine the work of writers and thinkers including Michel de Montaigne, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Arthur Rimbaud, Marguerite Yourcenar, Gilbert Simondon, Michel Serres, Michel Houellebecq, and Éric Chevillard. The diverse approaches in the volume signal a common desire to bring together form and content, politics and aesthetics, theory and practice, under the aegis of t...

“Where does the posthuman dwell? At what address? And in what type of house?” \n\nThese 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...

This book offers essays on both canonical and non-canonical German-language texts and films, advancing ecocritical models for German Studies, and introducing environmental issues in German literature

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. Typic...

Abstract This article surveys studies in Romanticism over the course of the last decade, focusing particularly on work that engages what might loosely be called ecological concerns. In contrast to standard accounts of “ecocriticism,” however, it holds that the most generative work being done in this field and, with these interests at heart, is not explicitly ecocritical. Instead, the article finds in the rhetorically attentive contributions of Romanticist scholars a kind of by‐the‐way environmentalism that remains admirably cautious about the consequences of a literary criticism deemed activis...

This volume explores the history, application, and the future of ecocriticism. It traces the origins of and describes the practice of ecocriticism during the renaissance, medieval, and romantic period and evaluates the influence of the ecoformalism of country and old-time music. It analyzes the relevance of various theories and principles to ecocritical analysis including posthumanism, phenomenology, queer theory, deconstruction, pataphyics, biosemiotic criticism, and environmental justice. This volume also investigates the application of ecocriticism in the analysis of the politics of represe...

The most striking thing about reviewing the field of Victorian ecocriticism is that there is so little of it. This relative absence is all the more perplexing given that ecocritical work on Romanticism and nineteenth-century American literature is so profuse. Thoreau and Wordsworth remain the most-discussed authors in a field that was in many respects inaugurated by Jonathan Bate's Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition (1991) and Lawrence Buell's The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing and the Formation of American Culture (1995). Romanticism remains the p...

Journal Article Ecocriticism: The Essential Reader Get access Ecocriticism: The Essential Reader. Edited by Ken Hiltner. London: Routledge, 2015. 382 pp. Cloth $160.00. Paper $49.95. Kent C. Ryden Kent C. Ryden Yarmouth, Maine kryden@usm.maine.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Volume 22, Issue 2, Spring 2015, Pages 425–426, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isv040 Published: 20 May 2015

Although modernism has traditionally been considered an art of cities, Ecocriticism in the Modernist Imagination claims a significant role for modernist texts in shaping environmental consciousness. Analyzing both canonical and lesser-known works of three key figures - E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, and W. H. Auden - Sultzbach suggests how the signal techniques of modernism encourage readers to become more responsive to the animate world and non-human minds. Understanding the way these writers represent nature's agency becomes central to interpreting the power dynamics of empire and g...

This book initiates a conversation about blue ecocriticism: critical, ethical, cultural, and political positions that emerge from oceanic or aquatic frames of mind rather than traditional land-based approaches. Ecocriticism has rapidly become not only a disciplinary legitimate critical form but also one of the most dynamic, active criticisms to emerge in recent times. However, even in its institutional success, ecocriticism has exemplified an deficit. That is, ecocriticism has thus far primarily been a land-based criticism stranded on a liquid planet. Blue Ecocriticism and the Oceanic Imperati...

Table of Contents Foreword by Scott Slovic Acknowledgments Introduction: New International Voices in Ecocriticism Serpil Oppermann Part I. New Ecocritical Trends Chapter 1. Selves at the Fringes: Expanding Material Ecocriticism Kyle Bladow Chapter 2. Global Subcultural Bohemianism: Postlocal Ecocriticism and Tim Winton's Breath William V. Lombardi Chapter 3. is it about you ... that so irritates me?: Northern Exposure's Sustainable Feeling Sylvan Goldberg Chapter 4. Bang Your Head and Save the Planet: Gothic Ecocriticism Basak Agin Donmez Part II. Nature and Human Experience Chapter 5. Un-Natu...