This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme
and is available on www. bloomsburycollections. com. Drawing on the latest debates in …

What is ecocriticism? The imprecision with which it has been defined and the increasingly
disparate uses to which it and its cognates have been put recall Arthur Lovejoy's classic …

In Ecocritical Explorations, Patrick D. Murphy explores environmental literature and
environmental cultural issues through both theoretical and applied criticism. He engages …

Today we urgently need to reevaluate the human place in the world in relation to other
animals. This book puts Maurice Merleau-Ponty's philosophy into dialogue with literature …

2 See, for example, Bruno Latour's critique of Ferry's reductionist analysis of Serres in
“Arrachement ou attachement à la nature?” 21–5; and Kerry Whiteside's similar comments in …

This article provides an overview of German ecocriticism. It highlights the reluctance of
literary scholars in Germany to engage in environmentally focused criticism and discusses …

Nature, Environment, and Activism in Nigerian Literature is a critical study of environmental
writing, covering a range of genres and generations of writers in Nigeria. With a sustained …

The chapter provides an overview of cultural ecology as a recent direction in current
ecocriticism that has its own distinctive features but also resonates in manifold ways with …

This book identifies a major turn in contemporary British literature in response to
environmental crisis. It argues that the pastoral is emerging as a new critical framework in …

Whether or not, as Terry Eagleton would have us believe, the moment of high critical theory
has finished and we are now riding its ever-diminishing wave into shore, it seems obvious …