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CFP: International Conference on Environmental Humanities
International Conference on Environmental Humanities Stories, Myths, and Arts to Envision a Change* Alcalá de Henares, July 3-6, 2018 Call for papers Environmental humanities entail a transdisciplinary and transnational critical framework that is rapidly emerging in the last decade. This framework challenges traditional divisions among human, social, and environmental sciences, since they have proven to…
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Ecocriticism and Italy Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation
Naples and the porous landscapes of ecomafia and volcanic eruptions; death in Venice as a literary trope and a petrochemical curse; earthquakes and political moves that shake territories, people, and ideas cross-country; the slow pace of wine, food and environmental violence in Piedmont: these are some of the texts that this book narrates and analyses.…
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Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative by Alexa Weik von Mossner
Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative by Alexa Weik von Mossner Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative explores our emotional engagement with environmental narrative. Focusing on the American cultural context, Alexa Weik von Mossner develops an ecocritical approach that draws on the insights of affective science and cognitive narratology. This approach helps to…
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Voices from the Anthropocene: Edited by Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino
Environmental Humanities Voices from the Anthropocene Edited by Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino This important volume brings together scientific, cultural, literary, historical, and philosophical perspectives to offer new understandings of the critical issues of our ecological present and new models for the creation of alternative ecological futures. At a time when the narrative and theoretical…
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French Ecocriticism: From the Early Modern Period to the Twenty-First Century
Daniel A. Finch-Race/Stephanie Posthumus (eds) French Ecocriticism: From the Early Modern Period to the Twenty-First Century Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2017 Studien zu Literatur, Kultur und Umwelt/Studies in Literature, Culture, and the Environment – vol. 1 ISBN 9783631713242 EPUB/PDF/Hardback This book expounds fruitful ways of analysing matters of ecology, environments, nature, and the non-human…
