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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 life’s 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 Zhou’s butterfly dream to figures like Kafka, Merian,…
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Special Issue: Italian Poetry & Ecology — Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature 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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Panpsychismus im Nachhaltigkeitsdenken. Eine metaethische Reflexion by Madeleine Hugai
What does sustainability mean when nature is understood not merely as a resource but as a bearer of subjectivity? What underlying assumptions shape our current thinking about sustainability, and where are its limits? Madeleine Hugai demonstrates that prevailing concepts are heavily human-centered and thus overlook important aspects. As an alternative, she develops an expanded concept…
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Narrating Nuclear Disaster: Literary Form after Chornobyl and Fukushima by Hannah Klaubert
Examining literature in the aftermath of Chornobyl and Fukushima, this book considers literary genres and forms as important resources for understanding the material, environmental and social fallout of nuclear disasters. In a field that remains scientifically contested and, in the current moment of climate breakdown, highly politicized, Narrating Nuclear Disasters offers literature as an arena for exploring…
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Eco-Aesthetics: A Framework of Watery Bodies and Fog-Scapes in Art by Francesca Baroni
Water, besides being a central element of the environmental crisis, plays a profoundly symbolic and political role within contemporary societies. It is at the heart of numerous social struggles, embodying the demands of environmentalists, trade unions, and workers who oppose its privatization.
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Intersectional Futures in Climate Fiction: Undoing the Anthropocene master narrative by Chiara Xausa
Intersectional Futures in Climate Fiction: Undoing the Anthropocene Master Narrative (Peter Lang, 2025; Ralahine Utopian Studies series) offers one of the first sustained analyses of climate fiction through an intersectional ecocritical framework. What happens when the dominant narrative of the Anthropocene is challenged from a feminist and decolonial perspective? How can speculative fiction reimagine environmental futures…
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Escritos antibélicos [Antiwar Writings] by José Manuel Marrero Henríquez
Nopólemo does not take pleasure in the atrocities of war, and for that reason he rejects viewing everyday life as subject to opposing choices—either this or that, black or white, with me or against me, truth or lie, good or bad. Life is blurred and made up of countless shades of gray. The greater the…
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Letteratura e Antropocene by Annamaria Elia
What happens to literature when the Anthropocene is no longer merely a descriptive category, but a profound transformation of the ways in which we know, feel, imagine and inhabit the world? How can the contemporary novel respond to a crisis that calls into question the boundaries between the human and the non-human, nature and culture,…
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Irish Ecomedia: Empire and Environmental Justice in the Modernization of Postcolonial Ireland by Katherine M. Huber
The environmental impacts of empire on Ireland’s past and future Ireland was Britain’s first colony and its first imperial laboratory—the place where many colonial methods were tested before being exported to the farther-flung portions of the empire. In Irish Ecomedia, Katherine M. Huber examines the environmental impacts of imperial rule and the various ways they…
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Non-Western Approaches in Environmental Humanities (2025)
Non-Western Approaches in Environmental Humanities (2025), edited by Gabriela Jarzębowska, Aleksandra Ross, and Krzysztof Skonieczny. This volume critically interrogates non-Western frameworks within environmental humanities, seeking to challenge and deconstruct dominant Western paradigms. Through a range of interdisciplinary contributions, the book explores alternative epistemologies, including Indigenous, postcolonial, and regional perspectives from Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the…
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Maragarida Vale de Gato and José 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 “ecotones,” 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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José Manuel Marrero Henríquez – Escritos antivíricos
The literary chronicles of Escritos antivíricos [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. Katja’s World Game: The Overstory
Katja’s 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 “ark village”. 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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Greening Bohemia: The Environmental Arc of Beat Generation Literature. – Chad Weidner
Greening Bohemia suggests that Beat writing contains deep insights into the human-nature relationship, critiques of consumerism, spiritual quests, and a vision for a more harmonious future human existence. The book places the Beat Generation in a larger ecological and cultural narrative, emphasizing its lasting impact and encouraging readers to reconsider its legacy. Greening Bohemia highlights…
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Gabriele Dürbeck and Yixu Lü (eds.). “Networks of Plants and the Language of Resonance”.
This Special Issue of Plant Perspectives explores the multifaceted relationships between scientific and artistic expressions and plants in various genres, from literature and art to dance and media. The multidisciplinary contributions in this volume are linked by an exploration of the concept of ‘resonance’ as a potentially meaningful way of establishing and describing an ethical …
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Per Esben Svelstad. Same Sex Desire and the Environment in Norwegian Literature
This book explores how ideas of nature and the nonhuman play an important part in literary depictions of same-sex desire in twentieth-century Norwegian literature. Critically probing dichotomies such as pastoral/urban and human/animal, the chapters show how literary fiction constructs, represents, and interprets experiences of same-sex love and attraction, traditionally conceived as “unnatural.” Providing in-depth studies…
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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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