Category: EASLCE MEMBER PUBLICATIONS
Publications by EASLCE scholars or recommended texts.
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Italy and the Ecological Imagination: Ecocritical Theories and Practices, Vernon Press, 2022.
Italy and the Ecological Imagination: Ecocritical Theories and Practices What can Italy teach us about our relationships with the nonhuman world in the current socio-environmental crisis? Italy and the Ecological Imagination: Ecocritical Theories and Practices focuses on how Italian writers, activists, visual artists, and philosophers engage with real and fictional environments and how their engagements reflect, critique,…
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Italo Calvino’s Animals – Anthropocene Stories – Serenella Iovino
Are chickens going extinct? What is it like to be a white gorilla in Barcelona’s zoo? How threatening can be an ant? And how endangered are humans, in the industrial and capitalist biosphere? Italo Calvino’s Animals: Anthropocene Stories by Serenella Iovino (Cambridge UP) explores Anthropocene animals through the visionary eyes of a classic modern author. In Calvino’s…
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Slow Violence in Contemporary American Environmental Literature book by Erden El
It has been approximately nine years since Rob Nixon coined the term ‘slow violence’ to express the slow but deadly changes in the environment which cause the suffering of the poor. These environmental catastrophes take place so gradually and out of sight that they are often ignored. While Nixon dealt with the issues of slow…
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Book Dinomania: Why We Love, Fear and are Utterly Enchanted by Dinosaurs by Boria Sax
Book Dinomania: Why We Love, Fear and are Utterly Enchanted by Dinosaurs Author: Boria Sax “In this erudite, wide-ranging and engaged work, Boria Sax explorers the cultural flesh that has been wrapped around the fossilized bones of these iconic creatures. He asks, ‘What is a dinosaur?’ and shows that the answer is not merely a…
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WAYMARKING ITALY’S INFLUENCE ON THE AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGINATION WHILE ON PILGRIMAGE TO ASSISI By Robert L. France
WAYMARKING ITALY’S INFLUENCE ON THE AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL IMAGINATION WHILE ON PILGRIMAGE TO ASSISI By Robert L. France, Cambridge Scholars, 2020. Waymarking Italy’s Influence on the American Environmental Imagination While on Pilgrimage to Assisi describes a peripatetic pilgrimage that is equal parts a daily description of a 200-kilometre walk from the “wounded mountain” of La Verna…
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The Voice of Nature in Ted Hughes’s Writing for Children – Correcting Culture’s Error By Lorraine Kerslake
Despite the fame Ted Hughes’s poetry has achieved, there has been surprisingly little critical writing on his children’s literature. This book identifies the importance of Hughes’s children’s writing from an ecocritical perspective and argues that the healing function that Hughes ascribes to nature in his children’s literature is closely linked to the development of his…
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New Translation: Cultural Representations of Other-than-human Nature
New Translation: Cultural Representations of Other-than-human Nature by Pamela Blanchard Faber Benítez Carretero-González, Margarita & José Marchena-Domínguez(eds.). One of the main goals of this collective work is to acknowledge the human and the other-than-human as part of a harmonic whole integrated in a common environment; that is to say, to suggest the study of the…
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Cli-Fi A Companion – Axel Goodbody – Adeline Johns-Putra (eds.) Cli-Fi A Companion
What is Cli-Fi? Climate change fiction is a new literary phenomenon that emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century in response to what may be society’s greatest challenge. Climate change is already part responsible for extreme weather events, flooding, desertification and sea level rise, leading to famine, the spread of disease, and population displacement.…
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Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment
Nordic Narratives of Nature and the Environment is the first English language anthology that presents ecocritical research on northern European literatures and cultures.
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Italy and the Environmental Humanities -Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies
Serenella Iovino, Enrico Cesaretti, and Elena Past, eds. Bringing together new writing by some of the field’s most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy–as a territory of both matter and imagination–through the lens of the environmental humanities. The contributors offer a wide spectrum of…
