Definitions
"The Study of the relationship between literature and the environement"
What is ecocriticism?
This text contends that Christianity may provide a way to solve global warming.
What is Hell: In search of a Christian Ecology?
This is one of the early ecocritics who wrote Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition (1991).
Who is Jonathan Bate?
Gregg Garrard's argument that dispersal of agency and responsibility is not ideal in the times of climate crises is a critique of this concept.
what is material ecocriticism?
This mode of application involves blending personal experiences with the experiences of those under discussion in a given text.
what is personal, nature-based writing?
An attempt to dethrone humanity by arguing that all entities and organisms possess awareness, intelligence and agency.
what is Material Ecocriticism
This text shows how the material turn in scholarship can be fruitful for environmental research.
What is Material Ecocriticism (2014) by Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann
This theorist wrote The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature-writing, and the Formation of American Culture (1995).
Who is Lawrence Buell?
Literally the human epoch, it argues that humanity has a measurable effect on the planet thru nuclear bombs, acid rains and plastics.
what is the anthropocene
This mode of application closely attends to a text's form, combining it with environmental awareness - e.g. details of nature.
What is ecopoetics?
A study of the revulsions elicited by certain natural processes.
what is ecophobia?
This book argues that most destructive ecological violence is gradual and hidden.
What is Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor by Rob Nixon (2011).
These two critics edited this groundbreaking book on ecocriticism in 1996.
Who are Cheryl Glotfelty and Harold Fromm
A belief that the domination of women and the degradation of the earth share the same root causes in patriarchal and capitalist systems.
what is ecofeminism?
This step of application asks questions such as: why are certain things in nature captivating? Does this perception of beauty in nature motivate us to treat nature better?
What is ecoaesthetics?
A reflection on the Judeo-Christian worldview that humans are at odds with nature due to a primordial disruption of the human-nature bond.
what is ecospirituality?
This book shows how cultural artifacts help us grasp the Sixth Extinction.
What is Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species (2016) by Ursula Heise
Ordovician=440 mil years Triassic = 201 mil years
Devonian = 370 mil years Cretaceous = 66 mil yrs
Permian = 252 mil years
This critic wrote two key books on ecoaesthetics.
Who is Timothy Morton? Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics (2009) and The Ecological Thought (2012).
the idea that prehistoric people learned to control fire and developed agriculture.
what is old anthropocene
This step of application shifts from green criticism to the representation of cultures, seas and human migration across oceans.
What is black and blue humanities?
An argument that human impact on the planet increased tremendously during the age of transatlantic exploration.
What are Black and Blue Humanities
These texts analyze the Anthropocene by focusing on colonialism and climate change.
What are: The Great Derangement
The Nutmeg's Curse
The essay, "The Climate of History: Four Theses" was written by this historian.
Who is Dipesh Chakrabarty?
The belief proposed by Arne Naes that critiques anthropocentrism by arguing that the well-being and flourishing of human and nonhuman life on Earth have value in themselves.
What is deep ecology?
This mode of application studies how indigenous peoples interact with land and non-human nature.
What is ecological indigeneity?