Category: EASLCE MEMBER PUBLICATIONS
Publications by EASLCE scholars or recommended texts.
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Ecopoetic Place-Making: Nature and Mobility in Contemporary American Poetry Judith Rauscher
American ecopoetries of migration explore the conflicted relationships of mobile subjects to the nonhuman world and thus offer valuable environmental insight for our current age of mass mobility and global ecological crisis. In Ecopoetic Place-Making, Judith Rauscher analyzes the works of five contemporary American poets of migration, drawing from ecocriticism and mobility studies. The poets discussed…
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Ecocriticism and Old Norse Studies – Reinhard Hennig Emily Lethbridge Michael Schulte (eds)
Ecocriticism and Old Norse Studies. Nature and the Environment in Old Norse Literature and Culture. Ed. by Reinhard Hennig, Emily Lethbridge, and Michael Schulte. Turnhout: Brepols 2023 “Ecocriticism and Old Norse Studies is the first anthology to combine environmental humanities approaches and the study of premodern Nordic literature and culture. The chapters gathered here present innovative…
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Enchanted Forests: The Poetic Construction of a World Before Time by Boria Sax
“Put 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 Conrad’s Marlow as he navigates his way down a river to the Congo. Behold…
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Blue Humanities – Storied Waterscapes in the Anthropocene by Serpil Oppermann
By drawing on oceanography (marine sciences) and limnology (freshwater sciences), social sciences, and the environmental humanities, the field of the blue humanities critically examines the planet’s troubled seas and distressed freshwaters from various socio-cultural, literary, historical, aesthetic, ethical, and theoretical perspectives. Since all waterscapes in the Anthropocene are overexploited and endangered sites, the field calls…
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Ethics for the Future: Perspectives from 21st Century Fiction (transcript 2023)
Ethics for the Future: Perspectives from 21st Century Fiction (transcript 2023) Which of the possible futures might be a good future, and how do we know? Stephanie Bender looks at contemporary films and novels to address major ethical challenges of the future: the ecological catastrophe, digitalisation and biotechnology. She proposes that fiction and its modes…
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Empirical Ecocriticism – Environmental Narratives for Social Change
Empirical Ecocriticism Environmental Narratives for Social Change There is a growing consensus that environmental narratives can help catalyze the social change necessary to address today’s environmental crises; however, surprisingly little is known about their impact and effectiveness. In Empirical Ecocriticism, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, W. P. Malecki, and Frank Hakemulder combine an environmental humanities…
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“Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature“ (Palgrave, 2023)
About this book This open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, and Foucauldian theory, Matthias Klestil examines forms of environmental knowledge in African American writing ranging from antebellum slave narratives and pamphlets to Charlotte Forten’s journals, Booker T. Washington’s autobiographies, and Charles…
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Ecocriticism and the Island : Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago
Ecocriticism and the Island: Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago – Pippa Marland (Rowman and Littlefield, December 2022). Ecocriticism and the Island explores a wide selection of island-themed creative non-fiction, offering new insights into the ways in which authors negotiate existing cultural tropes of the island while offering their own distinctive articulations of “islandness.” This book…
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Ecologies of a Storied Planet in the Anthropocene by Serpil Oppermann
Published by West Virginia University Press in 2023, Ecologies of a Storied Planet in the Anthropocene is a tour de force. With transdisciplinarity and theoretical lucidity, it rethinks the Anthropocene from a material ecocritical perspective, envisioning innovative modes of knowledge for deeper understandings of Anthropocene ecologies. Focusing on nonhuman agencies, Serpil Oppermann shows in fascinating detail how…
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Fragile: A Novel by Alexa Weik von Mossner
A man responsible for keeping New York City alive falls for an underground animal activist from the wrong side of the East River in Alexa Weik von Mossner’s debut novel about love, loss, and resilience in the face of global ecological crisis. New York in 2057—a metropolis divided. Sheltered by enormous seawalls, Manhattan is green,…
