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The Influence of Climate Fiction Open
Climate fiction—literature explicitly focused on climate change—has exploded over the last decade, and is often assumed to have a positive ecopolitical influence by enabling readers to imagine potential climate futures and persuading them …
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Climate Crisis and the 21st-Century British Novel Open
The challenge of rapid climate change is forcing us to rethink traditional attitudes to nature. This book is the first study to chart these changing attitudes in 21st-century British fiction. Climate Crisis and the 21st-Century British Nov…
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Literature as Cultural Ecology Open
Drawing on the latest debates in ecocritical theory and sustainability studies, Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts outlines a new approach to the reading of literary texts. Hubert Zapf considers the ways in which literature …
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Recent Trends in Children's Literature Research: Return to the Body Open
Twenty-first-century children's literature research has witnessed a material turn in strong response to the 1990s perception of childhood and the fictional child as social constructions. Cultural theories have generated fruitful approaches…
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Ecocriticism Open
Ecocriticism bezeichnet aktuelle kultur- und literaturwissenschaftliche Ansätze, die die Beziehungen zwischen dem Menschen und seiner Umwelt sowie ihre Transformationen in der Literatur- und Kulturges
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Ekokritik dalam Sastra Indonesia: Kajian Sastra yang Memihak Open
Literary studies of high quality require at least two things: (1) an increase on the weight and depth of appreciation of the literary works under investigation, and (2) the study’s social contribution towards the factual problems in societ…
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Black Geographies and Black Ecologies as Insurgent Ecocriticism Open
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 envir…
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Representing the neocolonial destruction of the Niger Delta: Helon Habila’s<i>Oil on Water</i>(2011) Open
This article examines the literary representation of the ecological, economic and social destruction of the Niger Delta in Helon Habila's novel Oil on Water (2011). Although formally independent since 1960, Nigeria is still embedded in une…
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Ecocriticism and Narrative Theory: An Introduction Open
This collection of essays follows upon the success of a previous special issue of English Studies focused on ecocriticism, edited by Astrid Bracke and Marguerite Corporaal and published in November...
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Environmental justice, settler colonialism, and more-than-humans in the occupied West Bank: An introduction Open
Our special issue provides a first-of-its kind attempt to examine environmental injustices in the occupied West Bank through interdisciplinary perspectives, pointing to the broader settler colonial and neoliberal contexts within which they…
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Digital Environmental Metabolisms: An Ecocritical Project of the Digital Environmental Humanities Open
By combining literary, ecocritical, and media techniques with a mindfulness of the environment, “Digital Environmental Metabolisms: An Ecocritical Project of the Digital Environmental Humanities” contributes to the urgent task of re-orient…
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An Ecological and Postcolonial Study of Literature: From Daniel Defoe to Salman Rushdie Open
Enclosures, Colonization, and the Robinson Crusoe Syndrome: Notes Toward an Ontology of Land The Territorialization of Land Problematizing Enclosure in the Eighteenth-Century Inhabiting Land in the Age of Empire: Twentieth-Century Literatu…
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FENOMENA EKSPLOITASI LINGKUNGANDALAM CERPEN KORAN MINGGU INDONESIA PENDEKATAN EKOKRITIK Open
Environmental damage on earth is at a critical level. Climate change, disaster, pollution, and animal hunting continue to occur without realizing that humans are part of their lives. The purpose of this research, first, is to explore the f…
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Treatment of Nature: An Ecocriticism Approach in ‘Komat Kamit’ of Tejo and Kamba’s Tuhan Maha Asik Open
This research was aimed at reflecting how Sujiwo Tejo and M. N. Kamba treat nature in Komat Kamit (murmuring), one of the chapters in their work entitled Tuhan Maha Asik. Tejo and Kamba explained clearly how humans have treated the natural…
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Saving the Environment: Environmental Lessons in Colin Thiele’s February Dragon Open
This article explores the relationship between humans and nature in February Dragon and elaborates on the environmental lessons conveyed in Colin Thiele's February Dragon. This article utilizes the concept of ecocriticism by Glotfelty. Eco…
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Anthropocene Panic: Contemporary Ecocriticism and the Issue of Human Numbers Open
Environmental humanists rightly believe they have valuable contributions to make to rethinking and redressing Anthropocene Age excess. Ecocriticism’s recent maturation as an interdiscipline has put it in a stronger position to do so than e…
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Representation of ecocriticism in the folklore of Mak Ungkai spirit Open
The purpose of this qualitative study is to analyze the relationship between human and nature behind the story of Mak Ungkai by using the ecocritical approach. The informants in this study are the native Malay people who live in Tanjung Ke…
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‘But the real problem is….’: The Chameleonic Insidiousness of ‘Overpopulation’ in the Environmental Humanities Open
This paper offers an overview of the chameleonic nature of overpopulation as an environmental issue, and of the relative evasion of population as an issue in ecocriticism and elsewhere: the very multiplicity of environmental factors means …
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Environmental mainstreaming: facets and theoretical concepts Open
The environment assumes a pivotal role in today's world, one that transcends the escalating number of natural disasters and environmental crises featuring in media headlines. Indeed, it embodies a multifaceted domain of knowledge, marked b…
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Education for Sustainability: Developing Ecocritical Literature Circles in the Student Teacher Classroom Open
How can student-teachers learn efficient ways to encourage sustainability thinking in their pupils and fulfil the competence aims on sustainability outlined in national subject curriculums as a response to UNESCO’s programme on Education f…
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Transactions with the World: Ecocriticism and the Environmental Sensibility of New Hollywood Open
In their bold experimentation and bracing engagement with culture and politics, the “New Hollywood” films of the late 1960s and early 1970s are justly celebrated contributions to American cinematic history. Relatively unexplored, however, …
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Gardening in Polluted Tropics: The Materiality of Waste and Toxicity in Olive Senior’s Caribbean Poetry Open
While toxic substances continue increasingly, and unevenly, infiltrating the world, the new materialist turn invites us to examine the relationalities emerging between pollution and literature. This essay examines how Olive Senior’s poetry…
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From Posthumanism to Posthuman Ecocriticim Open
This essay explores the impact of the posthuman turn on ecocriticism. It proposes that posthuman ecocriticism is a more engaged, more diffractive mode of reading the co-evolution of organisms and inorganic matter in their hybrid configurat…
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Ecocriticism and "Thinking with Writing": An Interview with Tim Ingold Open
Over the course of an influential career spanning several decades, Tim Ingold, Professor Emeritus at the University of Aberdeen, has established himself as a preeminent voice in the field of Social Anthropology. Author of studies including…
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Lost Words and Lost Worlds: Combatting Environmental Generational Amnesia Open
This essay explores the problem of society’s environmental memory loss and the potential for literary and cultural works to counteract it. It uses the concepts of environmental generational amnesia and shifting baseline syndrome to argue t…
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Climate Imperialism: Ecocriticism, Postcolonialism, and Global Climate Change Open
Global climate change threatens to kill or displace hundreds of thousands of people and will irrevocably change the lifestyles of practically everyone on the planet. However, the effect of imperialism and colonialism on climate change is a…
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Code Red for Humanity: Multimodal Metaphor and Metonymy in Noncommercial Advertisements on Environmental Awareness and Activism Open
Concern for global warming, climate change and pollution has grown in recent years, with countries across the world facing natural disasters on unprecedented scales. The communication of environmental protection is therefore a necessary ar…
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A study of ecocriticism on the representations of ecological conditions in Rawa Gambut Open
This study aims to determine the representation of the ecological crisis found in the Rawa Gambut drama script written by Conie Sema. This qualitative descriptive research used an ecocritical approach. The data are in the form of words, ph…
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Radical Homemaking in Contemporary American Environmental Fiction Open
Ursula K. Heise in ‘Ecocriticism and the Transnational Turn in American Studies’ critiques ‘the portrayal of multicultural and sometimes transnational nuclear families as the narrative solution to environmental and political problems’ (Hei…
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Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895–1941 Open
The beginning of the 20th century marked a new phase of the battle for civil rights in America. But many of the era’s most important African-American writers were also acutely aware of the importance of environmental justice to the struggl…