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Cheryll Glotfelty's working definition in The Ecocriticism Reader is that "ecocriticism is the study of the relationship between literature and the physical environment", [6] and one of the implicit goals of the approach is to recoup professional dignity for what Glotfelty calls the "undervalued genre of nature writing". [7]
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 ...
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 ...
Sociological criticism is literary criticism directed to understanding (or placing) literature in its larger social context; it codifies the literary strategies that are employed to represent social constructs through a sociological methodology. Sociological criticism analyzes both how the social functions in literature and how literature works ...
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.
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
In the social sciences, materiality is the notion that the physical properties of a cultural artifact have consequences for how the object is used. [1] Some scholars expand this definition to encompass a broader range of actions, such as the process of making art, and the power of organizations and institutions to orient activity around themselves. [1]
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 ...