ecocriticism
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ecocriticism (usually uncountable, plural ecocriticisms)
- The interdisciplinary study of literature and ecology.
- 1998, Patrick D Murphy, Terry Gifford, Katsunori Yamazato, Literature of nature: an international sourcebook:
- A chapter on North Woods writers is an ideal project in which to engage the fundamental issues of ecocriticism.
- 2003, Roger Thompson, J Scott Bryson, Twentieth-century American nature writers: prose:
- The emergence of ecocriticism as a distinct field of inquiry parallels the reemergence of literary critic as cultural activist […]
- 2007, Fiona Becket, Terry Gifford, Culture, creativity and environment: new environmentalist criticism:
- In this light, the current volume is a work of ecocriticism, although not all the contributors would wish to define themselves first and foremost as ecocritics.
- 2020, Bridgitte Barclay, “My Heart Slowly Cracks”, in Jonathan Elmore, editor, Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN:
- Serpil Opperman writes that ecocriticism proposes “that we can read the world as matter endowed with stories.”