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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Eco-criticism"”.
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Teaching the Sun as Simile: Bringing Nature into Language Arts Middle School Classrooms
… emerging concepts of new literacy studies and eco-criticism, literacy, and composition as it relates to ELA pedagogy. Also, it provides an explanation for the importance and relevance of using nature to develop an ecosystem of better readers, writers and communicators in middle school general …
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From <i>Wessex Poems</i> to <i>Time's Laughingstocks</i> : An eco-critical approach to the poetry of Thomas Hardy
… re-evaluate the poetry of Thomas Hardy from an ecocritical perspective, and in so doing, show how and in what ways Hardy's poetic oeuvre represents a revealing response to the environment, and an important and still relevant comment on humankind's relationship to it. <br></br><br></br>As the …
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Terra Nullius: Encountering the Non-Place
… anthropology, memory studies, new urbanism, and eco-criticism. The study proposes that through such an inter-disciplinary discourse mediated by photographic practice, a more idiosyncratic critical lens might emerge to challenge how we might conceive the contemporary Terra Nullius - the urban …
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A New Story for the Anthropocene: Partial Knowledge and the New Weird in Jeff Vandermeer's Annihilation
… feel impossible, the concept and climate change becoming a massive unknown. Our current knowledge and knowledge systems seem insufficient in providing concrete explanations, answers, and forms of action. This can lead to a focus on the negatives, not just mass species extinctions, the destruction …
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"Let heaven kiss earth!": The Function of Humanism and Animism in Shakespeare's Richard II and Henry IV, Parts I and II
… shows that this binary is not so easily reconciled, and Hal (the future Henry V) creates a dual nature that subsumes the tenets of both animism and humanism. After the death of his father and his rejection of Falstaff in 2 Henry IV, Hal demonstrates that the only solution to the …