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| tenets of ecocriticism: The Ecocriticism Reader Cheryll Glotfelty, Harold Fromm, 1996 This book is the first collection of its kind, an anthology of classic and cutting-edge writings in the rapidly emerging field of literary ecology. Exploring the relationship between literature and the physical environment, literary ecology is the study of the ways that writing - from novels and folktales to U.S. government reports and corporate advertisements - both reflects and influences our interactions with the natural world. |
| tenets of ecocriticism: Environmental Renaissance Andrew McMurry, 2003 Through contemporary environmental philosophy and emerging paradigms in complex systems theory, Andrew McMurry presents a new reading of Emerson, Thoreau, and the green tradition in American thought. McMurry analyzes Emerson and Thoreau's foundational roles in the formation of the two main currents in American environmentalism: the managerial, or shallow, and the radical, or deep. The author draws, in particular, on Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela's theory of autopoesis and the social systems theory of Niklas Luhmann. These theories, says McMurry, give us the conceptual tools to update Emerson and Thoreau's philosophies of nature, literary aesthetics, and attitudes toward pastoralism for the current age of environmental risk and uncertainty. McMurry's systems approach helps us to recast essentialist, ultimately debilitating binaries such as nature/culture, wilderness/civilization, and wild/tame along the lines of a suppler, richer distinction: that between self-organizing systems (like language or society) and their environments (defined simply as whatever cannot communicate with the system). Such an undertaking also allows McMurry to reflect on the systemic obstacles that ecocriticism, as a genre enabling positive environmental practices, must confront if it is to be theoretically coherent. Sophisticated and socially relevant, Environmental Renaissance is both a call for critics to broaden their parameters and a warning about rhapsodizing on nature while our very life-support systems are crumbling. |
| tenets of ecocriticism: The Bioregional Imagination Tom Lynch, Cheryll Glotfelty, Karla Armbruster, 2012 Bioregionalism is an innovative way of thinking about place and planet from an ecological perspective. Although bioregional ideas occur regularly in ecocritical writing, until now no systematic effort has been made to outline the principles of bioregional literary criticism and to use it as a way to read, write, understand, and teach literature. The twenty-four original essays here are written by an outstanding selection of international scholars. The range of bioregions covered is global and includes such diverse places as British Columbia's Meldrum Creek and Italy's Po River Valley, the Arctic and the Outback. There are even forays into cyberspace and outer space. In their comprehensive introduction, the editors map the terrain of the bioregional movement, including its history and potential to inspire and invigorate place-based and environmental literary criticism. Responding to bioregional tenets, this volume is divided into four sections. The essays in the “Reinhabiting” section narrate experiments in living-in-place and restoring damaged environments. The “Rereading” essays practice bioregional literary criticism, both by examining texts with strong ties to bioregional paradigms and by opening other, less-obvious texts to bioregional analysis. In “Reimagining,” the essays push bioregionalism to evolve—by expanding its corpus of texts, coupling its perspectives with other approaches, or challenging its core constructs. Essays in the “Renewal” section address bioregional pedagogy, beginning with local habitat studies and concluding with musings about the Internet. In response to the environmental crisis, we must reimagine our relationship to the places we inhabit. This volume shows how literature and literary studies are fundamental tools to such a reimagining. |
| tenets of ecocriticism: Ecology, Myth, and Mystery N. D. R. Chandra, Nigamananda Das, 2007 |
| tenets of ecocriticism: Material Ecocriticism Serenella Iovino, Serpil Oppermann, 2014-09-24 Material Ecocriticism offers new ways to analyze language and reality, human and nonhuman life, mind and matter, without falling into well-worn paths of thinking. Bringing ecocriticism closer to the material turn, the contributions to this landmark volume focus on material forces and substances, the agency of things, processes, narratives and stories, and making meaning out of the world. This broad-ranging reflection on contemporary human experience and expression provokes new understandings of the planet to which we are intimately connected. |
| tenets of ecocriticism: The Truth of Ecology Dana Phillips, 2003 A wide-ranging appraisal of environmental thought. It explores such topics as the history of ecology, radical science studies and ecology, the need for greater theoretical sophistication in ecocriticism, the dubious legacy of Thoreau, and the contradictions of contemporary nature writing. |
| tenets of ecocriticism: War and American Literature Jennifer Haytock, 2021-02-04 This book examines representations of war throughout American literary history, providing a firm grounding in established criticism and opening up new lines of inquiry. Readers will find accessible yet sophisticated essays that lay out key questions and scholarship in the field. War and American Literature provides a comprehensive synthesis of the literature and scholarship of US war writing, illuminates how themes, texts, and authors resonate across time and wars, and provides multiple contexts in which texts and a war's literature can be framed. By focusing on American war writing, from the wars with the Native Americans and the Revolutionary War to the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this volume illuminates the unique role representations of war have in the US imagination. |
| tenets of ecocriticism: Beginning Theory Peter Barry, 2002-09-07 In this second edition of Beginning Theory, the variety of approaches, theorists, and technical language is lucidly and expertly unraveled and explained, and allows readers to develop their own ideas once first principles have been grasped. Expanded and updated from the original edition first published in 1995, Peter Barry has incorporated all of the recent developments in literary theory, adding two new chapters covering the emergent Eco-criticism and the re-emerging Narratology. |
| tenets of ecocriticism: Transactions with the World Adam O’Brien, 2016-02-01 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, has been the profound environmental sensibility that characterized movies such as The Wild Bunch, Chinatown, and Nashville. This brisk and engaging study explores how many hallmarks of New Hollywood filmmaking, such as the increased reliance on location shooting and the rejection of American self-mythologizing, made the era such a vividly “grounded” cinematic moment. Synthesizing a range of narrative, aesthetic, and ecocritical theories, it offers a genuinely fresh perspective on one of the most studied periods in film history. |
| tenets of ecocriticism: Transnational Interconnections of Nature Studies and the Environmental Humanities Sophia Emmanouilidou, Sezgin Toska, 2020-02-24 How is ecothinking articulated in varied research fields? What are the conjunctions and concurrences of academic endeavors in the attempt to curb environmental destruction? This collection of essays offers a multifaceted exploration of the basic tenets of environmentalism proposed by academic curricula across the world. Ecodestruction, the wilderness, rampant pollution, tourism developments, sustainability, educational interventions, and the plurivocal turn to ecotheoretical textual analysis are some of the critical perspectives and scientific findings investigated here. The book introduces a multilateral understanding of environmental consciousness, and suggests that the study of nature should not be compartmentalized into separate fields of analyses, but aim for the interconnections between disciplines, given that the physical cosmos is an unambiguous and finite host of humanity’s endeavours. The volume appeals to academics, researchers and professionals with a particular interest in the current environmental crisis, offers solid insights into the ways human societies construe nature and hopefully will embark on the protection of the ecosphere. |
| tenets of ecocriticism: EnvironMentality. Roman Bartosch, 2013 This book addresses the role and potential of literature in the process of contesting and re-evaluating concepts of nature and animality, describing one’s individual environment as the starting point for such negotiations. It employs the notion of the ‘literary event’ to discuss the specific literary quality of verbal art conceptualised as EnvironMentality. EnvironMentality is grounded on the understanding that fiction does not explain or second scientific and philosophical notions but that it poses a fundamental challenge to any form of knowledge manifesting in processes determined by the human capacity to think beyond a given hermeneutic situation. Bartosch foregrounds the dialectics of understanding the other by means of literary interpretation in ecocritical readings of novels by Amitav Ghosh, Zakes Mda, Yann Martel, Margaret Atwood and J.M. Coetzee, arguing that EnvironMentality helps us as readers of fiction to learn from the books we read that which can only be learned by means of reading: to “think like a mountain” (Aldo Leopold) and to know “what it is like to be a bat” (Thomas Nagel). |
| tenets of ecocriticism: The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism Greg Garrard, 2014 The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism provides a broad survey of the longstanding relationship between literature and the environment. The moment for such an offering is opportune in many respects: multiple environmental crises are increasingly inescapable at both transnational and local levels; the role of the humanities in addition to technology and politics is increasingly recognized as central for exploring and finding solutions; and the subject of ecocriticism has reached a kind of critical mass, both within its Anglo-American heartlands and beyond. From its origins in the study of American Nature Writing and British Romanticism, ecocriticism has developed along numerous theoretical, historical, cultural and geographical axes, the most contemporary and exciting of which will be represented in the Handbook. The contributors include eminent founders of the field, including Cheryll Glotfelty and Jonathan Bate, a number of key second-wave ecocritics, and the best up-and-coming scholars. Topics covered include: Green Shakespeare-the Bard's subversive uses of the pastoral; John Clare's sacred relationship with the land; Thoreau's profound political passion; the natural landscape as symbol of postcolonial resistance in works by Lessing, Naipaul, and Coetzee; the relation between feminism and environmentalism; language and the concept of biosemiotics; and concerns over pollution and toxicity in films like Erin Brockovitch, Michael Clayton, and Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. |
| tenets of ecocriticism: Ecocriticism, Ecology, and the Cultures of Antiquity Christopher Schliephake, 2016-12-07 By focusing on ancient culture and its reception, this book fills integrates antiquity into our current ecocritical theory and practice to fill in a gap in our environmental debates. It aims at a re-evaluation of antiquity in the light of present-day environmental concerns and re-frames our contemporary outlook on the more-than-human world in the light of cultures far removed from our own. |
| tenets of ecocriticism: The Comedy of Survival Joseph W. Meeker, 1997 Here, Joseph Meeker expands upon his consideration of comedy and tragedy, not as dramatic motifs for humor and sadness but rather as forms of adaptive behavior in the natural world that either promote our survival (comedy) or estrange us from other life forms (tragedy). In this third major edition of his classic work, Meeker examines the role of literature in shaping such behavior. Drawing upon centuries of western writing from Dante to Shakespeare to E. O. Wilson, he demonstrates the universality of comedy in both human and animal behavior and shows how the comic mode helps us to live in harmony with nature. Meeker then defines the tragic view of life, interweaving that behavior with exploitation of the environment. With imagination and flair, the author also introduces the idea of a play ethic, as opposed to a work ethic, and demonstrates the importance of play as a necessary and desirable component of the comic spirit. The Comedy of Survival is a book for literary critics, environmentalists, human ecologists, philosophers, and anthropologists. General readers, too, will find much to ponder in the author's clear explication of how all of us might become better stewards of this, our home planet Earth.--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
| tenets of ecocriticism: The Environmental Imagination Lawrence Buell, 1995 With Thoreau’s Walden as a touchstone, Buell offers an account of environmental perception, the place of nature in the history of Western thought, and the consequences for literary scholarship of attempting to imagine a more “ecocentric” way of being. In doing so, he provides a profound rethinking of our literary and cultural reflections on nature. |
| tenets of ecocriticism: Practical Ecocriticism Glen A. Love, 2003 Table of contents |
| tenets of ecocriticism: The Green Studies Reader Laurence Coupe, 2000 Laurence Coupe brings together a collection of extracts from a wide range of both historical and contemporary ecocritical texts. |
| tenets of ecocriticism: Romantic Ecocriticism Dewey W. Hall, 2016-03-15 Romantic Ecocriticism: Origins and Legacies examines the influence of the science of the age upon a host of English and American authors. The collection of essays develops transhistorical and transnational perspectives to examine the invaluable place of Romantic literary studies as inspiration behind the rise of early environmentalism in the nineteenth century and its subsequent legacies. |
| tenets of ecocriticism: Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan, Vidya Sarveswaran, 2019-02-01 Ecocriticism and environmental communication studies have for many years co-existed as parallel disciplines, occasionally crossing paths but typically operating in separate academic spheres. These fields are now rapidly converging, and this handbook aims to reinforce the common concerns and methodologies of the sibling disciplines. The Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication charts the history of the relationship between ecocriticism and environmental communication studies, while also highlighting key new paradigms in information studies, diverse examples of practical applications of environmental communication and textual analysis, and the patterns and challenges of environmental communication in non-Western societies. Contributors to this book include literary, film and religious studies scholars, communication studies specialists, environmental historians, practicing journalists, art critics, linguists, ethnographers, sociologists, literary theorists, and others, but all focus their discussions on key issues in textual representations of human–nature relationships and on the challenges and possibilities of environmental communication. The handbook is designed to map existing trends in both ecocriticism and environmental communication and to predict future directions. This handbook will be an essential reference for teachers, students, and practitioners of environmental literature, film, journalism, communication, and rhetoric, and well as the broader meta-discipline of environmental humanities. |
| tenets of ecocriticism: Solar Storms Linda Hogan, 1997-02-26 From Pulitzer Prize finalist Linda Hogan, Solar Storms tells the moving, “luminous” (Publishers Weekly) story of Angela Jenson, a troubled Native American girl coming of age in the foster system in Oklahoma, who decides to reunite with her family. At seventeen, Angela returns to the place where she was raised—a stunning island town that lies at the border of Canada and Minnesota—where she finds that an eager developer is planning a hydroelectric dam that will leave sacred land flooded and abandoned. Joining up with three other concerned residents, Angela fights the project, reconnecting with her ancestral roots as she does so. Harrowing, lyrical, and boldly incisive, Solar Storms is a powerful examination of the clashes between cultures and traumatic repercussions that have shaped American history. |
| tenets of ecocriticism: Crossing Open Ground Barry Lopez, 1989-05-14 In Crossing Open Ground, Barry Lopez weaves an invigorating spell as he searches for meaning and purpose in the natural environment. Here, he travels through the American Southwest and Alaska, discussing endangered wildlife and forgotten cultures. Through his crystalline vision, Lopez urges us toward a new attitude, a re-enchantment with the world that is vital to our sense of place, our well-being . . . our very survival. |
| tenets of ecocriticism: American Literary Environmentalism David Mazel, 2000 Through these literary studies, Maze demonstrates how broadly American culture is saturated with the wilderness mystique - and how the construction of the environment is an exercise of cultural power.--BOOK JACKET. |
| tenets of ecocriticism: Postcolonial Ecocriticism Graham Huggan, Helen Tiffin, 2010 This work examines relationships between humans, animals, and the environment. Divided into two sections that consider the postcolonial from environmental and zoocritical perspectives, the book looks at narratives of development in postcolonial writing, entitlement and belonging in pastoral, and much more. |
| tenets of ecocriticism: Green Speculations Eric C. Otto, 2012 Science fiction goes green? Eric C. Otto explores literary science fiction's engagement with a central concern of our times: ecological degradation. Situated at the intersection of science fiction studies and environmental philosophy, Green Speculations: Science Fiction and Transformative Environmentalism highlights key works of environmental science fiction that critique various human values for their roles in instigating such degradation. The books receiving ecocritical treatment in Green Speculations include George R. Stewart's Earth Abides (1949), Frank Herbert's Dune (1965), Ursula K. Le Guin's The Word for World Is Forest (1972), Joan Slonczewski's A Door into Ocean (1986), Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy (1993, 1994, 1996), and Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl (2009). Otto reads these and other important science fiction novels as educative in their representations of environmental issues and the environmental philosophies that have emerged in response to them. Green Speculations demonstrates how environmental science fiction can be read not only as reflecting the ideas of environmental philosophies such as deep ecology, ecofeminism, and ecosocialism, but also as instrumental in thinking through the tenets of these philosophies. As such, the book places science fiction at the center of environmentalism and considers the genre to be an essential tool for prompting needed social and cultural transformation. |
| tenets of ecocriticism: The Role of Place in Literature Leonard Lutwack, 1984-05-01 The Role of Place in Literature is a groundbreaking study exploring the use of metaphors and images of place in literature. Lutwack takes a dynamic view of the relationship between place and the action or thought in a work. Drawing comparisons over a wide range of works, principally American and British literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, he illustrates how writers have charged different environments with symbolic and psychological meaning. |
| tenets of ecocriticism: Ecofeminism Vandana Shiva, Maria Mies, 2014-03-13 This groundbreaking work remains as relevant today as when it was when first published. Two of Zed's best-known authors argue that ecological destruction and industrial catastrophes constitute a direct threat to everyday life, the maintenance of which has been made the particular responsibility of women. In both industrialized societies and the developing countries, the new wars the world is experiencing, violent ethnic chauvinisms and the malfunctioning of the economy also pose urgent questions for ecofeminists. Is there a relationship between patriarchal oppression and the destruction of nature in the name of profit and progress? How can women counter the violence inherent in these processes? Should they look to a link between the women's movement and other social movements? Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva offer a thought-provoking analysis of these and many other issues from a unique North-South perspective. They critique prevailing economic theories, conventional concepts of women's emancipation, the myth of 'catching up' development, the philosophical foundations of modern science and technology, and the omission of ethics when discussing so many questions, including advances in reproductive technology and biotechnology. In constructing their own ecofeminist epistemology and methodology, these two internationally respected feminist environmental activists look to the potential of movements advocating consumer liberation and subsistence production, sustainability and regeneration, and they argue for an acceptance of limits and reciprocity and a rejection of exploitation, the endless commoditization of needs, and violence. |
| tenets of ecocriticism: The Lost Meaning of the Seventh Day Sigve Tonstad, 2009 In The Lost Meaning of the Seventh Day, Sigve K. Tonstad recovers the profound and foundational understanding of God that can be experienced in the seventh day. He shows that Scripture has consistently asserted that the Sabbath of Creation is the Sabbath of the whole story of how God makes right what has gone wrong in the world. Tonstad argues that the seventh day is the symbol of God¿s faithfulness precisely when God¿s presence seems to be in doubt. He demonstrates how God, through the seventh day, seeks the benefit of all creation. Inevitably, this leads to an investigation of how this universal symbol became obscured. This sweeping work of biblical theology and historical analysis traces the seventh day as it is woven throughout Scripture and the history of Christianity. Its twenty-seven chapters consider, among other things, the relationship of the seventh day to freedom, to social conscience, to the ¿greatest commandment,¿ and to the enigmatic ¿rest that remains.¿ Tonstad engages the move away from the seventh day in early Christian history, the mindset in medieval Christianity, and the sobering long-term implications leading all the way to the Holocaust and the ecological crises in our time. The Lost Meaning of the Seventh Day will engage, illuminate, provoke, and ultimately inspire readers who enjoy a serious work presented in a style that is ¿luminous¿ and a ¿delight to read.¿ |
| tenets of ecocriticism: Ecoambiguity Karen Thornber, 2012-03-02 Delving into the complex, contradictory relationships between humans and the environment in Asian literatures |
| tenets of ecocriticism: Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies Patrick D. Murphy, 2009-07-15 In Ecocritical Explorations, Patrick D. Murphy explores environmental literature and environmental cultural issues through both theoretical and applied criticism. He engages with the concepts of referentiality, simplicity, the nation state, and virtual reality in the first section of the book, and then goes on to interrogate these issues in contemporary environmental literature, both American and international. He concludes his argument with a discussion of the larger frames of family dynamics and un-natural disasters, such as hurricanes and global warming, ending with a chapter on the integration of scholarship and pedagogy in the classroom, with reference to his own teaching experiences. Murphy's study provides a wide ranging discussion of contemporary literature and cultural phenomena through the lens of ecological literary criticism, giving attention to both theoretical issues and applied critiques. In particular, he looks at popular literary genres, such as mystery and science fiction, as well as actual disasters and disaster scenarios. Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies is a timely contribution to ecological literary criticism and an insightful look into how we represent our relationship with the environment. |
| tenets of ecocriticism: The Pantheon of Commentary and Analysis Pasquale De Marco, Prepare to embark on an intellectual odyssey through the realm of literary criticism with The Pantheon of Commentary and Analysis, a comprehensive and illuminating guide to the diverse perspectives that have shaped our understanding of literature. Within these pages, you'll find a chorus of voices from across the ages, representing a multitude of critical approaches and methodologies. From the erudite musings of ancient philosophers to the groundbreaking theories of modern scholars, this volume offers a panoramic view of the evolution of literary criticism. Witness the ways in which critical perspectives have shifted and transformed over time, mirroring the ever-changing landscape of human thought and experience. Explore the power of interpretation, the art of deconstructing narratives, and the unique characteristics of poetry, drama, and non-fiction. Delve into the intricacies of language, structure, and symbolism, unearthing the hidden layers of meaning within literary works. Discover how literature reflects and shapes our world, offering profound insights into the human condition and the complexities of society. The Pantheon of Commentary and Analysis examines the ethics of interpretation, pondering the responsibility of the critic and the importance of open-mindedness and empathy. It delves into the legacy of literary analysis, reflecting on its enduring value in preserving cultural heritage and fostering a deeper understanding of ourselves and the world around us. This comprehensive guide is an invaluable resource for students, scholars, and avid readers alike. Whether you're seeking to enhance your appreciation of literature, deepen your understanding of critical theory, or simply engage in thought-provoking discussions, The Pantheon of Commentary and Analysis will illuminate your path. Prepare to be captivated by the insights and revelations that await you on every page, as this volume unlocks the transformative power of literature and its profound impact on the human spirit. Join us on this enlightening journey through the labyrinthine corridors of literary criticism, where the written word unveils its secrets and the human experience is laid bare. The Pantheon of Commentary and Analysis is your key to unlocking the treasures hidden within the pages of great literature. If you like this book, write a review! |
| tenets of ecocriticism: Appalachian Ecocriticism and the Paradox of Place Laura Wright, Jessica Cory, 2023-05-01 Ecocriticism and Appalachian studies continue to grow and thrive in academia, as they expand on their foundational works to move in new and exciting directions. When researching these areas separately, there is a wealth of information. However, when researching Appalachian ecocriticism specifically, the lack of consolidated scholarship is apparent. With Appalachian Ecocriticism and the Paradox of Place, editors Jessica Cory and Laura Wright have created the only book-length scholarly collection of Appalachian ecocriticism. Appalachian Ecocriticism and the Paradox of Place is a collection of scholarly essays that engage environmental and ecocritical theories and Appalachian literature and film. These essays, many from well-established Appalachian studies and southern studies scholars and ecocritics, engage with a variety of ecocritical methodologies, including ecofeminism, ecospiritualism, queer ecocriticism, and materialist ecocriticism, to name a few. Adding Appalachian voices to the larger ecocritical discourse is vital not only for the sake of increased diversity but also to allow those unfamiliar with the region and its works to better understand the Appalachian region in a critical and authentic way. Including Appalachia in the larger ecocritical community allows for the study of how the region, its issues, and its texts intersect with a variety of communities, thus allowing boundless possibilities for learning and analysis. |
| tenets of ecocriticism: The Future of Environmental Criticism Lawrence Buell, 2009-02-09 Written by one of the world’s leading theorists in ecocriticism, this manifesto provides a critical summary of the ecocritical movement. A critical summary of the emerging discipline of “ecocriticism”. Written by one of the world’s leading theorists in ecocriticism. Traces the history of the ecocritical movement from its roots in the 1970s through to its diversification and proliferation today. Takes account of different ecocritical positions and directions. Describes major tensions within ecocriticism and addresses major criticisms of the movement. Looks to the future of ecocriticism, proposing that discourses of the environment should become a permanent part of literary and cultural studies. |
| tenets of ecocriticism: The Social Creation of Nature Lorne Leslie Neil Evernden, 1992-10 The book traces the evolution of the concept of nature over the past five centuries. In exploring the consequences of conventional understandings, it also seeks a way around the limitations of a socially created nature, in order to defend what is actually imperiled - wildness. |
| tenets of ecocriticism: John Steinbeck and His Contemporaries Stephen K. George, Barbara A. Heavilin, 2007-10-02 In March of 2006, scholars from around the world gathered in Sun Valley, Idaho for a conference devoted to not only John Steinbeck but also to the authors whose work influenced, informs, or illuminates his writings. This volume represents the many unique papers delivered at that conference by scholars from around the world. This collection includes studies on authors who influenced Steinbeck's work, discussions of writers whose work is in dialogue with Steinbeck, and examinations of Steinbeck's contemporaries, whose individual works invite comparisons with those of the Nobel-prize winning author. |
| tenets of ecocriticism: The Ecophobia Hypothesis Simon C. Estok, 2018-06-19 The Ecophobia Hypothesis grows out of a dissatisfaction with the capacity of what has come to be termed the biophilia hypothesis to adequately account for the kinds of things that are going on in the world, things so extraordinary that we are increasingly coming to understand the current age as the Anthropocene. Building on the usefulness of the biophilia hypothesis, this text argues that biophilia exists within a context that has not been adequately theorized. The Ecophobia Hypothesis argues that in order to contextualize biophilia (literally, the love of life) and the spectrum on which it sits, it is necessary to theorize how very un-philic human uses of the natural world are. This volume offers a rich tapestry of connected, comparative discussions about the new material turn and the urgent need to address the agency of genes, the complexities of 21st century representations of ecophobia, and of how imagining terror inter-penetrates with the imagining of an increasingly oppositional natural environment. Furthermore, this book confronts why ecomedia--a veritably thriving industry--is having so little measurable impact and where ecophobia fits into this equation, about scale and the ecophobic implications of speciesism, about the entanglement of environmental ethics with the writing of literary madness and pain. This work also investigates food and the ecophobic bases of industrial agriculture and meat, garbage, and about how current philosophies regarding waste need and sustain systemic and institutional ecophobia. This is a book about uncovering ecophobia and about making change -- |
| tenets of ecocriticism: Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West William Cronon, 2009-11-02 A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize. No one has written a better book about a city…Nature's Metropolis is elegant testimony to the proposition that economic, urban, environmental, and business history can be as graceful, powerful, and fascinating as a novel. —Kenneth T. Jackson, Boston Globe |
| tenets of ecocriticism: Human Ecology Gerald G. Marten, 2010-09-23 'The scope and clarity of this book make it accessible and informative to a wide readership. Its messages should be an essential component of the education for all students from secondary school to university... [It] provides a clear and comprehensible account of concepts that can be applied in our individual and collective lives to pursue the promising and secure future to which we all aspire' From the Foreword by Maurice Strong, Chairman of the Earth Council and former Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Earth Summit) The most important questions of the future will turn on the relationship between human societies and the natural ecosystems on which we all, in the end, depend. The interactions and interdependencies of the social and natural worlds are the focus of growing attention from a wide range of environmental, social and life sciences. Understanding them is critical to achieving the balance involved in sustainable development. Human Ecology: Basic Concepts for Sustainable Development presents an extremely clear and accessible account of this complex range of issues and of the concepts and tools required to understand and tackle them. Extensively supported by graphics and detailed examples, this book makes an excellent introduction for students at all levels, and for general readers wanting to know why and how to respond to the dilemmas we face. |
| tenets of ecocriticism: Inscribing the Environment Connie Scarborough, 2013-03-22 Ecocriticism as a theoretical model has primarily been used in the study of Romantic, post-Romantic, and contemporary literary texts. Applications of the concepts to medieval literature, however, are a fairly recent phenomenon. This book examines key, canonical works from medieval Spain, showing how descriptions of the natural world in these texts are informed by both the authors’ perceptions of the environment and established literary models. |
| tenets of ecocriticism: "An Insect View of Its Plain" Rosemary Scanlon McTier, 2013-01-30 During the nineteenth century, insects became a very fashionable subject of study, and the writing of the day reflected this popularity. However, despite an increased contemporary interest in ecocriticism and cultural entomology, scholars have largely ignored the presence of insects in nineteenth-century literature. This volume addresses that critical gap by exploring the cultural and literary position of insects in the work of Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, and John Muir. It examines the beliefs these authors share about the nature of our connection to insects and what insects have to teach about creation and our place in it. An important contribution to both ecocriticism and literary entomology, this work contributes much to the understanding of Thoreau, Dickinson, and Muir as nature writers, natural scientists, entomologists, and botanists, and their intimate and highly spiritual relationships with nature. |
| tenets of ecocriticism: French Ecocriticism Daniel A. Finch-Race, Stephanie Posthumus, 2017 This book expounds fruitful ways of analysing matters of ecology, environments, nature, and the non-human world in a broad spectrum of material in French. Scholars from Canada, France, Great Britain, Spain, and the United States examine the work of writers and thinkers including Michel de Montaigne, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Arthur Rimbaud, Marguerite Yourcenar, Gilbert Simondon, Michel Serres, Michel Houellebecq, and Éric Chevillard. The diverse approaches in the volume signal a common desire to bring together form and content, politics and aesthetics, theory and practice, under the aegis of the environmental humanities. |
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Tenet refers to a principle, belief, or doctrine that is generally held to be true, and especially to one that is shared by the members of an organization, movement, or profession, as in 'one of …
TENET Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
In that language, tenet is a form of the verb tenēre ("to hold") and means "s/he holds." Tenet was borrowed into English around 1600, probably because of use of the word in Latin writings to …
TENET Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com
Tenet definition: any opinion, principle, doctrine, dogma, etc., especially one held as true by members of a profession, group, or movement.. See examples of TENET used in a sentence.
TENET | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
TENET definition: 1. one of the principles on which a belief or theory is based: 2. one of the principles on which a…. Learn more.
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Definition of tenet noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Tenets - definition of Tenets by The Free Dictionary
Tenets synonyms, Tenets pronunciation, Tenets translation, English dictionary definition of Tenets. principle, belief, doctrine; part of a body of doctrine: tenet of a church Not to be …
Tenants vs. Tenets – What’s the Difference? - Writing Explained
Tenets means foundational beliefs, especially of a religion or other doctrine. One of the tenets of Christianity, for example, is that Jesus Christ died by crucifixion and rose from the dead three …
tenet - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
May 30, 2025 · tenet (plural tenets) An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization.
Tenets - Definition, Meaning, and Examples in English
Use 'tenets' to describe foundational beliefs or main principles that are accepted as authoritative, often in the context of a specific field, organization, or philosophy. The tenets of Buddhism …
TENET definition in American English - Collins Online Dictionary
The tenets of a theory or belief are the main principles on which it is based. Non-violence and patience are the central tenets of their faith. American English : tenet / ˈtɛnɪt /
Tenant vs. Tenet: What's the Difference? | Merriam-Webster
Tenet refers to a principle, belief, or doctrine that is generally held to be true, and especially to one that is shared by the members of an organization, movement, or profession, as in 'one of …
