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The Butterfly Who Dreamt He Was a Man: Metamorphoses, Entomological and Human by Boria Sax
From ancient fables to modern science, insects and their metamorphoses have long inspired human understanding of lifeās transitions. This original and engaging book traces how these transformations have shaped rituals around birth, marriage, and death, while also provoking deep questions about identity. Through stories that connect Zhuang Zhouās butterfly dream to figures like Kafka, Merian,…
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SpecialĀ Issue:Ā Italian PoetryĀ &Ā EcologyĀ āĀ Delos: A JournalĀ ofĀ TranslationĀ andĀ World LiteratureĀ 41.1
Special Issue: Italian Poetry & Ecology Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature, Volume 41, Number 1 Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature announces the upcoming publication of Volume 41, Number 1, a special issue devoted to Italian Poetry & Ecology, edited by Jessica Beasley, Gabriele Belletti, and Silvia Valisa. The issue…
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Dancing Bodies of Water: A Multimedia Research Creation Project Involving Dance, Video, Photography and Writing
directed by BĆ©nĆ© Meillon, UniversitĆ© d’Angers, France Dancing Bodies of Water is a research-creation project associated with the Sea More Blue interdisciplinary ecopoetic research group based at UniversitĆ© dāAngers, France, and working on Oceanic and aquatic imaginaries, perception, and representations. The project was achieved over a period of two years and a half and involved…
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Sea More Blue, Ecozon@, Vol 17.1, eds BƩnƩ Meillon, Bertrands Guest and Marie-Pierre Ramouche
This trilingual volume of Ecozon@ has emerged from the Sea More Blue EASLCE conference held in Perpignan in June 2024. It gathers papers that cross perspectives coming from different cultures, places, disciplines, and that are expressed via various forms of art and discourse. It is part of a larger effort to promote of a blue, interdisciplinary take…
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First Seed Interview -Ecocritical Dialogues with JosĆ© Manuel Marrero HenrĆquez
Primera Entrevista Semilla | DiĆ”logos Eco crĆticos con JosĆ© Manuel Marrero HenrĆquez “In this seminal interview, we converse with JosĆ© Manuel Marrero HenrĆquez, writer and a renowned researcher on ecocriticism and philological-cultural studies. Here, we deepen our understanding of the relationship between nature, territory, literature, and memory, opening avenues to understand how ecocritical thinking assists…
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Maragarida Vale de Gato and JosƩ Duarte (eds.). Dez Ar Mar / Ten Sea Air. Lisbon: Casa de Gigante
Ten (+ 10) poets and scholars (including artistic partnerships) were invited to experiment with the question: how to breathe in and navigate through the climate crisis? We were particularly interested in coastal issues or āecotones,ā areas where at least two communities/environments overlap. Participants: Abigail Chabitnoy, Ana Mafalda Leite, Brenda Shaughnessy, Caleb Parkin, David Gewanter, Diana…
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JosĆ© Manuel Marrero HenrĆquez – Escritos antivĆricos
The literary chronicles of Escritos antivĆricos [Antiviral Writings] are far from being a mere anecdotal account of a family’s daily life during the pandemic. Their scope is broader, transcending the circumstances of their origin to become a meticulous analysis of the contemporary reality of a digitized world, contaminated both biologically and semantically. With tones that…
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Jane Ekstam. Katjaās World Game: The Overstory
Katjaās World Game: The Overstory (2024) is the third part of a trilogy. The six students of the trilogy present a sustainable option for the future in the form of an eco-friendly āark villageā. The village demonstrates not only new ways of building but also features the latest sustainable farming practices. Artificial Intelligence is used…
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Exhibition: Silvrettatelier Montafon 2024 ā With Michael Markwick ā KĆ¼nstlerhaus Bregenz
Michael Markwickās works come after an invitation to an artist-in-residence program at the SilvrettAtelier Montafon in the Austrian Alps last summer. The exhibition will have eight works on display ā some of which can already be seen on Michaelās website ā and one piece will be added to the collection of the Vorarlberg Museum in…
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Enchanted Forests: The Poetic Construction of a World Before Time by Boria Sax
āPut on your hiking boots and prepare for an adrenaline-fueled journey around the world with Sax as your expert guide. Make stops with Gilgamesh at the Cedar Forest of Lebanon, with Dante as he enters a dark forest, and with Joseph Conradās Marlow as he navigates his way down a river to the Congo. Behold…
