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In comparison with other 'political' forms of criticism, there has been relatively little dispute about the moral and philosophical aims of ecocriticism, although its scope has broadened from nature writing, romantic poetry, and canonical literature to take in film, television, theatre, animal stories, architectures, scientific narratives and an extraordinary range of literary texts.
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 ...
American ecocritic Lawrence Buell concludes that Adamson's work in American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice and Ecocriticism and The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy (University of Arizona Press, 2002) should be seen as a major critical intervention in early eco-criticism because it raised the “challenge of eco-justice revisionism” and catalyzed a ...
Indian Feminist Ecocriticism, edited by Douglas A. Vakoch and Nicole Anae Literature and Ecofeminism: Intersectional and International Voices , edited by Douglas A. Vakoch and Sam Mickey The Politics of Women's Spirituality: Essays on the Rise of Spiritual Power within the Feminist Movement , edited by Charlene Spretnak
Terry Gifford (born in 1946) is a British scholar at Bath Spa University [1] and poet. He is known for his role in developing British ecocriticism and his research interests include pastoral literary theory, ecofeminist analysis of D.H. Lawrence, John Muir, Ted Hughes, creative writing, poetry, and mountaineering.
Brooks Ashton Nichols (born 1953) is the Walter E. Beach ’56 Distinguished Chair Emeritus in Sustainable Studies and Professor of English Language and Literature Emeritus at Dickinson College. His interests are in literature, contemporary ecocriticism, Romanticism, and nature writing.
In the essays collected in Literary Darwinism (2004), [4] Carroll worked toward building a comprehensive model of human nature, gave examples of evolutionary literary criticism, and criticized post-structuralism, traditional humanism, ecocriticism, cognitive poetics, and a narrow form of evolutionary psychology.
The lead section introduces ecocriticism as a means of examining the ways literature treats nature, but I think that the current definition is far more broad than this, encompassing philosophical perspectives for thinking about the environment and climate (not just "nature") through a variety of mediums.