This essay reads Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel The Word for World is Forest to explore whether there is a connection between Cartesian dualism, allegorical reading, and environmentalist thought. To answer this the essay employs the philosophy and theoretical writings of Timothy Morton, namely The Ecological Thought and Ecology Without Nature. The method used is a close reading of the novel and the critical texts concerned with it. The dissertation shows how a static and unchanging understanding, wether of concepts, ideas, or people can lead to a damaging power relationship, and how this can be connected to René Descartes through early ecocriticism, environmental discourse and allegorical readings. The dissertation also synthesizes a way to move...
This book addresses the role and potential of literature in the process of contesting and re-evaluat...
In this new millennium the relatively young field of ecocriticism has had to face important transdis...
The contemporary environmental crisis asks fundamental questions about culture. This first book draw...
In the past three decades, ecology has acquired a significant place across disciplines from environm...
Along with the philosophical writings of ecofeminism’s greatest proponents and critics, the growth o...
This study looks at how Ursula K. Le Guin’s utopian fiction, represented by The Dispossessed (1974) ...
International audienceBrad Tabas (ENSTA Bretagne, France) started his presentation, “In the Dark tha...
Since prehistory, literature and the arts have been drawn to portrayals of physical environments and...
What does the form of literary analysis based on environmental values, known as ecocriticism in the ...
Allegories contain specific forms and techniques which define a text as an allegory. Furthermore, th...
Connecting the environment with societies’ cultures through literature has created a new awareness o...
Abstract: Environmental issues inspired this research. Only ecological consciousness can minimize e...
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Progra...
Ecocriticism and Postmodern Environmentalism have much in common. The latter, influenced by the noti...
This thesis addresses the question posed to ecocriticism by Dana Phillips in his iconoclastic The Tr...
This book addresses the role and potential of literature in the process of contesting and re-evaluat...
In this new millennium the relatively young field of ecocriticism has had to face important transdis...
The contemporary environmental crisis asks fundamental questions about culture. This first book draw...
In the past three decades, ecology has acquired a significant place across disciplines from environm...
Along with the philosophical writings of ecofeminism’s greatest proponents and critics, the growth o...
This study looks at how Ursula K. Le Guin’s utopian fiction, represented by The Dispossessed (1974) ...
International audienceBrad Tabas (ENSTA Bretagne, France) started his presentation, “In the Dark tha...
Since prehistory, literature and the arts have been drawn to portrayals of physical environments and...
What does the form of literary analysis based on environmental values, known as ecocriticism in the ...
Allegories contain specific forms and techniques which define a text as an allegory. Furthermore, th...
Connecting the environment with societies’ cultures through literature has created a new awareness o...
Abstract: Environmental issues inspired this research. Only ecological consciousness can minimize e...
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Progra...
Ecocriticism and Postmodern Environmentalism have much in common. The latter, influenced by the noti...
This thesis addresses the question posed to ecocriticism by Dana Phillips in his iconoclastic The Tr...
This book addresses the role and potential of literature in the process of contesting and re-evaluat...
In this new millennium the relatively young field of ecocriticism has had to face important transdis...
The contemporary environmental crisis asks fundamental questions about culture. This first book draw...