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Series
Nature culture and literature volume Volume 15
Publisher
Brill Rodopi
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Environmental criticism is a relatively new discipline that brings the global problem of environmental crisis to the forefront of literary and cultural studies. This introduction defines what ecocriticism is and provides a set of conceptual tools to encourage students to look at the texts they're reading in a new way"--
"The degrading environment of the planet is something that touches everyone. This book offers an introductory overview of literary...
Series
Handbooks of English and American Studies volume Volume 2
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Ecocriticsim is the study of literature and the environment from an interdisciplinary point of view, coming together to analyze the environment and determine possible solutions for the correction of the contemporary environmental situation. The discipline was heralded by publication of The Ecocrticism Reader (U Georgia, 1996) and Lawrence Buell's The Environmental Imagination (Harvard, 1995). Recently, all kinds of "texts" have been subjected to...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In this heuristic study, I explore how four ecological writers, or wild writers, experience Nature. I identify with and participate in this inquiry because I am an ecological writer searching to understand my relationship to the natural world. That relationship begins in primary experience. The term "Nature" core to this exploration includes interactions of all dispositions of Gaia, organic and inorganic, human and not human, constructed by humans...