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Publications:
The unbearable lightness of green: air travel, climate change and literature
Book:
Synopsis
Inspired by a range of ecological movements, ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine and
portray the relationship between humans and the environment in all areas of cultural production, from
Wordsworth and Thoreau to Disney and BBC nature documentaries. Greg Garrard's animated and
accessible volume traces the development of the movement and explores the concepts which have
most occupied ecocritics, including:* pollution* wilderness* apocalypse* dwelling* animals*
earth.Featuring an invaluable glossary of terms and suggestions for further reading, this is the first
student-friendly introduction to one of the newest and most exciting trends in literary and cultural
studies
https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/2014596953_Greg_Garrard
https://www.questia.com/library/108284085/ecocriticism
Terry Gifford
Some publications:
In his article “Biosemiology and Globalism in The Rapture by Liz Jensen”, Terry Gifford sketches the
development of ecocriticism from its early focus on American nature writing through its engagement
with postmodern theory to, more recently, its concern with the globalization of environmental crisis.
Gifford presents biosemiology, the interdisciplinary study of the signs that humans and other organisms
send to and receive from their environment, as a response to ecocriticism's recent focus on the global,
arguing that all experiences of nature are always also local.
www.researchgate.net/profile/Terry_Gifford/amp
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0013838X.2010.518038
William Rueckert
The term “ecocriticism” was coined in 1978 by William Rueckert in his essay “Literature and Ecology: An
Experiment in Ecocriticism.” Interest in the study of nature writing and with reading literature with a
focus on “green” issues grew through the 1980s, and by the early 1990s ecocriticism had emerged as a
recognizable discipline within literature departments of American universities.
In his essay, “Literature and Ecology: An Experiment in Ecocriticism,” William Rueckert
defines ecocriticism as “the application of ecology and ecological concepts to the study of
literature, because ecology (as a science, as a discipline, as the basis for human vision) has the
greatest relevance to the present and future of the world” (1996:107). In this context the
possible relations between literature and nature are examined in terms of ecological concepts.
Ecocriticism, then, attempts to find a common ground between the human and the nonhuman
to show how they can coexist in various ways, because the environmental issues have become
an integral part of our existence. This is one problem that ecocriticism addresses in its attempt
to find a more environmentally conscious position in literary studies.
Her most recent book co-edited with Tom Lynch and Karla
Armbruster, is The Bioregional Imagination: Literature, Ecology and
Place in 2012. It inspires to think about place and planet from and
ecological perspective. She wrote Literary Nevada: Writings from the
Silver State in 2008. It is the first comprehensive anthology of Nevada