The Hitchhiker's Guide to Ecocriticism

Heise, Ursula K.

doi:10.1632/003081206x129684

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“…The conservatism within ecocriticism towards interdisciplinarity is a characteristic of the field and not just a response to structural deterrents. This is not to say that ecocriticism is not interdisciplinary; indeed, many have described ecocriticism as an interdisciplinary field (Heise 2006;Cohen 2004;Birkerts 1996).…”

Section: Relationships With (Inter)disciplinaritymentioning

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Doing environmental humanities: inter/transdisciplinary research through an underwater 360° video poem

Peterson

2019

Green Letters

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Those who write about environmental humanities call on researchers to be interdisciplinary. But what kind of interdisciplinary research is required and how might a researcher actually do this form of research? The article presents one way for doing interdisciplinary research, using ecocritical analysis on Theodore Sturgeon's short story, 'It', and then using that as a basis for developing an alternative narrative for a 360°video poem. To address what makes this research practice environmental humanities and not just ecocriticism, this article puts the histories of ecocriticism and environmental humanities in conversation with their approaches to interdisciplinarity. What seems apparent is that environmental humanities value external and instrumental forms of interdisciplinarity but that it also may be a burgeoning transdisciplinary effort. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Relationships With (Inter)disciplinaritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Doing environmental humanities: inter/transdisciplinary research through an underwater 360° video poem

Peterson

2019

Green Letters

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“…Diverse projects and publications contributed to the foundation of Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), during Western Literature Association convention in 1992. The journal titled Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE) was established in 1993 while, in 1995, the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment started conducting periodic conferences (Heise, 2006). Other than this, some influential texts and collections, such as The Environmental Imagination (Buell, 1995) and What is Nature?…”

Section: Ecocriticism and Critique Of Literary Textsmentioning

confidence: 99%

War on Terra and Eco-Critical Discursivity: Analyzing the Role of Cultural Productions in Creating Eco-Consciousness

Aleem¹,

Ullah²,

Khan³

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IJEL

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Euro-American exclusivity has been eclipsing the universalizing appeal of Ecocriticism, which attempts to counter the war on terra-the Latin name for earth. Ecocriticism also explores the connection between humans and their environment. It gives way to the examination of the environment and its illustration in literature and, by doing so, develops an investigative ecological consciousness regarding different environmental issues. The present study is aimed to study the non-Euro-American setting of Anis Shivani's Karachi Raj (2015) through an eco-critical lens. It attempts to explore the eco-critical consciousness of the characters, highlighting the way the effort of creating eco-consciousness is made through the settings and plot of the literary text. The study focuses on environmental issues presented in the novel through various situations. The research uses qualitative method of textual analysis under the theoretical underpinnings of Ecocriticism.

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“…O'Dair's presentism is one that takes to task the scientistic approach of literary critics who “claim … to be a conduit for meanings about science” (80). Ursula Heise encapsulates the trouble: ecocriticism adheres to “the scientific study of nature, the scholarly analysis of cultural representation, and the political struggle for more sustainable ways of inhabiting the natural world” (506). Literary critics are well practised in the middle one and perhaps versatile enough to make worthwhile contributions to the latter, but as O'Dair points out, it is dangerous to imply that we are as capable of presenting clear and valid readings of scientific data as we are of plays and poems.…”

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Environmental Renaissance Studies

Jones

2017

Literature Compass

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Recent developments in renaissance and early modern ecocriticism, since surveys by Karen Raber and Sharon O'Dair, have made the field discursive. Some critics maintain that ecocriticism, ecostudies or environmental studies must be self‐consciously activist and presentist. Others practise a more historicist approach, which is only implicitly activist, if at all. This article considers the recent environmental criticism of renaissance literature and Shakespeare – in its place on the spectrum of presentism and historicism – and argues that the field's discursiveness is a positive development, which will lead to a growth of ecocritical work in the period. Recent relevant work in environmental history is introduced and a case made for a greater engagement with it in literary ecocriticism.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to Ecocriticism

Cited by 78 publications

References 17 publications

Doing environmental humanities: inter/transdisciplinary research through an underwater 360° video poem

Doing environmental humanities: inter/transdisciplinary research through an underwater 360° video poem

War on Terra and Eco-Critical Discursivity: Analyzing the Role of Cultural Productions in Creating Eco-Consciousness

Environmental Renaissance Studies

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