Free Download Ibero-American Ecocriticism: Cultural and Social Explorations
J. Manuel Gómez
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1666939358 | 229 Pages | True ePUB | 2.74 MB

Free Download Ibero-American Ecocriticism: Cultural and Social Explorations
J. Manuel Gómez
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1666939358 | 229 Pages | True PDF | 1.78 MB

Free Download A Malaysian Ecocriticism Reader: Considerations of Nature, Culture, Place and Identities
by Agnes S. K. Yeow and Wai Liang Tham
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819994659 | 224 Pages | True ePUB | 0.43 MB

Free Download A Malaysian Ecocriticism Reader: Considerations of Nature, Culture, Place and Identities
by Agnes S. K. Yeow and Wai Liang Tham
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819994659 | 224 Pages | True PDF | 3.32 MB

Free Download Nassim W. Balestrini, "Aging Studies and Ecocriticism: Interdisciplinary Encounters "
English | ISBN: 1666914746 | 2023 | 242 pages | EPUB, PDF | 461 KB + 2 MB
Aging Studies and Ecocriticism: Interdisciplinary Encounters argues that both aging studies and ecocriticism address the complex dynamics of individual and collective agency, oppression and dependency, care and conviviality, vulnerability and resistance as well as intergenerationality and responsibility. Yet, even though both fields employ overlapping methodologies and theoretical frameworks and scrutinize "boundary texts" in different literary genres, which have been analyzed from ecocritical perspectives as well as from the vantage point of critical aging studies, there has been little scholarly interaction between ecocritical literary studies and aging studies to date. The contributors in this volume demonstrate the potential of specific genres to narrate relationality and age, and the aesthetic and ethical challenges of imagining changes, endings, and survival in the Anthropocene. As the first step towards putting both fields in conversation, this collection offers new pathways into understanding human and nonhuman ecological relations.

A. Bleakley, "The Animalizing Imagination: Totemism, Textuality and Ecocriticism"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1349415294 | PDF | pages: 190 | 2.2 mb
From Palaeolithic cave paintings to post-modern cyber-pets, animals appear in guises other than 'natural', or biological, beasts. While this spectrum of animal presences is not limited to the immediacy of literal, flesh-and-blood presentation, it may feed off the death of the literal, or spring like ghosts or spirits from the abandoned carcases. For animals also stalk our dreams, slither into our fantasies, haunt our mentalities, and frame our metaphors. We might dream of a snake biting us; use the animal as a linguistic trope, or figure of speech, such as a snaking queue; or thrill at the hyper-real snakes represented on our television screens from locations we will never visit. Such animals are photographed in vivid close-up, beyond the capacity of the human eye. Shots of the animal in the wild are spliced with 'studio' shots of 'stand-in' animals in zoos, so that the viewer has a seamless experience, believing all the footage to be 'wild', where the televisual animal actually becomes a simulacrum. We wonder at these beastly presences as we are anaesthetized to their worldly value, for we cannot smell, taste or touch their images. And their sounds are also simulations. They are recreated for TV-audience consumption, yet they remain extraordinarily 'other'.

Environmentality: Ecocriticism and the Event of Postcolonial Fiction By Roman Bartosch
2013 | 316 Pages | ISBN: 9042036672 | PDF | 3 MB
This book addresses the role and potential of literature in the process of contesting and re-evaluating concepts of nature and animality, describing one's individual environment as the starting point for such negotiations. It employs the notion of the 'literary event' to discuss the specific literary quality of verbal art conceptualised as EnvironMentality. EnvironMentality is grounded on the understanding that fiction does not explain or second scientific and philosophical notions but that it poses a fundamental challenge to any form of knowledge manifesting in processes determined by the human capacity to think beyond a given hermeneutic situation. Bartosch foregrounds the dialectics of understanding the other by means of literary interpretation in ecocritical readings of novels by Amitav Ghosh, Zakes Mda, Yann Martel, Margaret Atwood and J.M. Coetzee, arguing that EnvironMentality helps us as readers of fiction to learn from the books we read that which can only be learned by means of reading: to "think like a mountain" (Aldo Leopold) and to know "what it is like to be a bat" (Thomas Nagel).

Pippa Marland, "Ecocriticism and the Island: Readings from the British-Irish Archipelago "
English | ISBN: 1786607085 | 2023 | 276 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Islands have long been the subject of cultural fascination, but in recent decades, they have exerted an increasingly powerful centrifugal force, sending writers to the outer edges of the British-Irish archipelago in search of inspiration and insight.

F. Fiona Moolla, "Natures of Africa: Ecocriticism and animal studies in contemporary cultural forms"
English | ISBN: 1868149137 | 2016 | 288 pages | PDF | 2 MB
One of the first edited volumes to encompass transdisciplinary approaches to a number of cultural forms, including fiction, non-fiction, oral expression and digital media.

Douglas A. Vakoch, "Indian Feminist Ecocriticism "
English | ISBN: 1666908711 | 2022 | 256 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Following Françoise d'Eaubonne's creation of the term "ecofeminism" in 1974, scholars around the world have explored ways that the degradation of the environment and the subjugation of women are linked. In the nearly three decades since the publication of the classical work Ecofeminism by Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva in 1993, several collections have appeared that apply ecofeminism to literary criticism, also known as feminist ecocriticism. The most recent of these include anthologies that emphasize international perspectives, furthering the comparative task launched by Mies and Shiva. To date, however, there have been no books devoted to gaining a broad-based understanding of feminist ecocriticism in India, understood in its own terms. Our new volume Indian Feminist Ecocriticism offers a survey of literature as seen through an ecofeminist lens by Indian scholars, which places contemporary literary analysis through a sampling of its diverse languages and in the context of millennia-old mythic traditions of India.