Ecocriticism
Articles
- The Eco-Humanities as Literature: A New Genre?
The rise of new ecological and environmental concerns demands a holistic engagement with knowledge, simultaneous understanding of science and politics and perhaps, above all, a…
1 October 2008 - Review of Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment by Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin
Was it just a matter of time? Do all political criticisms eventually meet? These musings are prompted by Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin's new book…
1 May 2011 - Green or Greed? Review of The Littoral Zone, by CA Cranston and Robert Zeller
There are a number of reasons why this is an important collection of essays. First, it challenges the hegemonic status of the United States as…
1 June 2010 - Review of Reclaiming Romanticism: Towards an Ecopoetics of Decolonization, by Kate Rigby
Reclaiming Romanticism is the latest addition to Bloomsbury’s Environmental Cultures series, which is edited by Greg Garrard and Richard Kerridge. Featuring other notable titles on…
30 April 2021 - Review of Transcultural Ecocriticism: Global, Romantic and Decolonial Perspectives, edited by Stuart Cooke and Peter Denney.
Stuart Cooke and Peter Denney’s edited collection, Transcultural Ecocriticism: Global, Romantic and Decolonial Perspectives (Bloomsbury, 2021) offers a series of case studies on how the…
11 December 2022 - Review of Cosmological Readings of Contemporary Australian Literature: Unsettling the Anthropocene by Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell
Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell’s book of ecocritical scholarship examines six contemporary narrative-prose texts from Australia and breaks new ground both in relation to ecocriticism and to the…
19 December 2024