Tag: Ecocritical
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CFP: Ringing the Changes? Literary and Cultural Responses to the Anthropocene
CALL FOR PAPERS: Ringing the Changes? Literary and Cultural Responses to the Anthropocene Special panel at the annual conference of the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Swansea University, 2-4 September, 2020. Deadline: 3 April, 2020 The environmental challenge to our collective existence is both more urgent, and more intractable, than…
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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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CFP: Environmental Change in Nordic Fiction
Third Workshop of the Ecocritical Network for Scandinavian Studies In the current climate of a global ecological crisis, visions and representations of the Nordic environment are undergoing a swift change. Traditionally, imagery of the Nordic and Arctic areas has been heavily influenced by the national Romantic ideas of purity and pristine wilderness, which still inform…
