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More recently, in an article that extends ecocriticism to Shakespearean studies, Estok argues that ecocriticism is more than "simply the study of Nature or natural things in literature; rather, it is any theory that is committed to effecting change by analyzing the function–thematic, artistic, social, historical, ideological, theoretical, or ...
Ecofeminist Literary Criticism: Theory, Interpretation, Pedagogy, edited by Gaard and Patrick D. Murphy, was the first anthology to examine not only how ecofeminist theory might enhance literary criticism but also how close reading of texts might inform ecofeminist theory and activist practice. This development in ecocriticism was welcomed by ...
Ecofiction (also "eco-fiction" or "eco fiction") is the branch of literature that encompasses nature or environment-oriented works of fiction. [1] While this super genre's roots are seen in classic, pastoral, magical realism, animal metamorphoses, science fiction, and other genres, the term ecofiction did not become popular until the 1960s when various movements created the platform for an ...
The Greening of Literary Scholarship: Literature, Theory, and the Environment (edited by Steven Rosendale), University of Iowa Press, 2002: 3-25. “Ecocriticism: The Nature of Nature in Literary Theory and Practice.” Weber Studies: An Interdisciplinary Humanities Journal 11.1 (Winter, 1994): 41-55.
It is he who coined the term "Neo-tiNai poetics," an ecocritical theory, [4] which is based on the tiNai theory of Classical Tamil Literature. He also started a journal ('Indian Journal of Ecocriticism') to promote this course. He was also the first to introduce the courses, Tamil Poetics, Tamil Musicology and Music and Literature in the ...
Green World is a literary concept defined by the critic Northrop Frye in his book Anatomy of Criticism (1957). Frye defines this term using Shakespeare's romantic comedies as the foundation. Frye defines this term using Shakespeare's romantic comedies as the foundation.
In 2005, she was elected as Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, in recognition of her international standing as an ecocritical scholar in German and Comparative Literature. [3] At Monash, where she remains an adjunct professor, she developed courses in ecocritical literary and cultural studies and (in collaboration with the ...
Ecopoetry is any poetry with a strong ecological or environmental emphasis or message. Many poets and poems in the past have expressed ecological concerns, but only recently has there been an established term to describe them; there is now, in English-speaking poetry, a recognisable subgenre of poetry, termed Ecopoetry, which can, on occasions, form a major strand of a writer's career ...