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Showing 1 to 20 of 109 for “"ecocriticism"”.
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Refocusing Ecocriticism: Going Deep with Walker Percy's The Moviegoer
<p>The field of scholarship known as ecocriticism is growing rapidly. Members of the field must endeavor to define ecocritism’s goals and parameters to prevent fragmentation and lack of focus. While most professed ecocritics agree that increased awareness and respect for the environment must be of …
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Negotiated ecologies: Indigeneity and ecocriticism in 19th century Bolivia and Chile
This dissertation examines four themes which underscore how the 19th century was, in a number of ways, a pivotal time period with regards to ecological relations in the Andean region. During the 19th century, food production became more mechanized, the introduction of the steam engine led to faster …
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Reframing as Reclamation: Trauma Theory, African Spiritualism, and Ecocriticism in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
<p>This thesis explores how ecocriticism and trauma theory intersect within Jesmyn Ward’s novel <em>Sing, Unburied, Sing </em>(2017) to tackle the complex act of collective healing. Trauma, and its subset transgenerational trauma, have often been a focal point for critical analysis of other African …
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A post-colonial ecocritical analysis of selected African texts: A case of lessing's the grass is singing and Mungoshi's waiting for the rain
… from a post-colonial ecocritical perspective. Ecocriticism unifies humanity and nature, whilst post-colonialism focuses on issues pertaining to power, religion and culture, with regards to humanity. The research aimed at elucidating on the remarkable relationship between human beings and nature …
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Ecocritical English: A Subject-led Approach to Sustainability
… is rooted in identity and culture, whereas ecocriticism in literary and cultural studies shifts attention to the environment and theorises how texts represent the more than human world. I consider how ecocriticism can be adapted to inform the teaching of English in schools guided by the …
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Earthbound Humors: An Ecocritical Approach to Melancholy in As You Like It and Hamlet
Ecocriticism explores the way in which artists interact with, interpret and represent the natural world. The concept of “nature,†according to ecocriticism, goes beyond simply flora and fauna, extending to human nature as well. In Shakespeare's England, a person's nature was determined by his …
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VERS UNE ECOCRITIQUE POSTCOLONIALE AFRICAINE: L’ENVIRONNEMENT DANS LES LITTERATURES AFRICAINES DE LANGUE FRANÇAISE
… framework, which includes postcolonialism and ecocriticism. Postcolonial theory is used as a tool to analyze the power relationships between Africa and global actors, especially in the questions of representation of the African environment by the former colonizers, and the resistance of the …
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Eco-Otherness and Interconnectedness: Re-thinking Land, Trees, and Nonhuman Agency in Palestinian and North African Literature
… colonial violence, and cultural memory. While ecocriticism has traditionally focused on Western literary traditions, this study positions Arab literature as a vital contributor to global environmental humanities, challenging anthropocentric and Eurocentric paradigms. By foregrounding nonhuman …
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Nature and Environment in Nineteenth-Century Austrian Literature
… and transcendence." With the help of ecocriticism, my research explores the development of ecological themes in the writings of four nineteenth-century Austrians from deforestation to industrialization to the growth of gardening culture. In addition, I investigate the nexus between the …
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Ecology and Environmentalism in Contemporary Sound Art
… both by critical studies in the growing field of ecocriticism, and by the curatorial recognition of new ‘ecological’ genres; however, to date there has been no equivalent ecologically-focused engagement within sound art. This can be recognised as the product of two significant gaps in sound art …
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"That Hateful Prairie Wind": Violence and Ecophobia in Twentieth Century American Gothic
<p>As ecocriticism continues to grow and unfold, ecocritics must continue to define its overall goals. This thesis further defines and exemplifies Simon Estok’s term, “ecophobia,” which refers to fear and contempt of the natural world, as a way of understanding human relationships with the nonhuman …
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Wildhoods: Bioregionalism and the Child Figure in Contemporary Canadian Literature
… B. Kidd’s Wild Things: Children’s Culture and Ecocriticism (2004) and Amy Cutter-Mackenzie, Phillip G. Payne, and Alan Reid’s Experiencing Environment and Place through Children’s Literature (2011) emphasize the significance of critically recognizing the value and relevance of the child-nature …
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Players in a storm: Climate and political migrants in The Tempest and Othello
… social history is combined with water-focused ecocriticism, shipwreck and a postcolonial reading of migrancy. Ultimately, the enmeshed position of the migrant in history, economics, and their environment in Shakespeare’s works is more clearly articulated.</p>
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Ecologia come paradigma di resistenza. Il paesaggio minerario di Sardegna: Environmental criticism in aree industriali dismesse
… an interdisciplinary framework that integrates ecocriticism, Marxist theory, and postcolonial studies. By critically engaging with works by Dickens, Zola, Orwell, and Angioni, the research elucidates how extractive practices mirror a broader system of socio-ecological injustice. It argues that …
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Place Matters: An Evolutionary Approach to Annie Proulx's "The Half-Skinned Steer"and "Wamsutter Wolf"
… she states that her stories come "from place." Ecocriticism has been the predominant lens with which to understand Proulx's work; however, ecocriticism's nebulous tenets and theoretical deficiencies perpetuate sentimental pastoralism of geographical determinism. The shaping impact of Wyoming's …
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"An Insect View of its Plain": Nature and Insects in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Muir
The simultaneous emergence of ecocriticism and cultural entomology has created a critical need for a discussion of the appearance and function of insects as they appear in literature. While nineteenth-century nature writing is frequently examined by ecocritics, very few have chosen to explore how …
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Environmental Change in Ovid's Poetry
… philosophy, and literary theory, known as “ecocriticism”, which challenges readers to scrutinise their normal ways of talking and thinking about relationships between humans and nonhumans. I use ecocriticism to reveal in unprecedented detail Ovid’s nuanced understanding of such interspecies …
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A Girl Is a Thing: Dramaturgies of Objects and Nature in Contemporary Choreography
… in posthumanism, new materialism, and ecocriticism in dialogue with contemporary choreography as a critical form of articulation and speculation by bodies in space and time. With this framework, I survey the performances dating between 1975-2020 by five women choreographers from Europe, …
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The Bird Is The Feeling: Romantic Natural History And Its Subjects
… strands of Romantic literary criticism and ecocriticism that read the Romantic speaking subject's treatment of the natural world as primarily an instrument of ego-formation, "The Bird is the Feeling" celebrates the largely private, idiosyncratic efforts of Romantic authors to consider …
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