22 articles in this issue
Editorial 3.1.
Roman Bartosch
One of the effects of ecocritical scholarship can be seen in the questioning of postmodern attempts of a radical constructivism that understands the world as a discursive phenomenon and that opposes any notion of a 'reality' outside those discursive... see more
Gabriele Dürbeck
This paper analyses the use of the rhetoric of the Apocalypse and the concept of nature's revenge in Frank Schätzing's eco-thriller The Swarm. Ecocritical research has identified these narrative patterns as characteristic of contemporary environment... see more
Katharina Gerstenberger
Literary texts about historical disasters tend to offer moral, political, or scientific interpretations of the occurrence that go well beyond the immediate experience of a catastrophe. They are, almost exclusively, written by people who did no... see more
Peter Utz
“Catastrophe” is a term of that culture which is threatened by it; the modern understanding of catastrophe dialectically marks the boundary between nature and culture where the term originates. This can be exemplarily shown in the cultural coding of Swiss... see more
Evi Zemanek
In contrast to most other fictional texts treating ecological crisis, Ian McEwan's Solar (2010), celebrated as "the book on climate change," does not develop an apocalyptic scenario culminating in a collective catastrophe. Instead, while on the level of d... see more
Stepan Zbytovsky
Among the representations of nature in Arno Schmidt's early texts from the debut novel Leviathan towards his radio features, scenes of diverse loci terribili and destructive forces of nature take a prominent place. In several texts, natural processe... see more
Serenella Iovino, Serpil Oppermann
The proliferation of studies bearing on the intellectual movement known as the "new materialisms" evinces that a material turn is becoming an important paradigm in environmental humanities. Ranging from social and science studies, feminism, to anthropolog... see more
Francisco Saez de Adana
The ambivalence of gene trading in Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy is treated in this paper. Genetic manipulation is one of the main science-related issues addressed in that trilogy. The behavior of the alien race presented in the paper, the O... see more
Mac John Wilson
One of the consequences of globalization in Spain has been the import of the so-called Anglo suburban culture coming from the western world. The development of this culture comes from pastoral roots, in that humans seek to live peacefully with each ... see more
Mario Petrucci
Orders of Magnitude
Stuart Cooke
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JD Smith
The four poems on this group touch on environmental issues in ways that reference ecological ethics, with at least indirect consideration of Aldo Leopold's land ethic.
Dan Thomas-Glass
This poem takes the hours of high and low tide on the Mayan Peninsula during a two-week stretch as its line lengths (# of words corresponding to the 24 hour clock). Through the lens of the sea, it tries to track the affective experience of labor fro... see more
Astrid Bracke
Book Review: The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment
Isabel Hoving
Book Review: The Ground Aslant: An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry
Serenella Iovino
This bibliographic essay illustrates the proliferation of studies about the "new materialisms" and examines the potential influx of this conceptual trend on ecocriticism. In the discussion, in particular, I provide a comparative analysis of four books: St... see more
Christopher McGill
Book Review: Postcolonial Environments: Nature, Culture, and the Contemporary Indian Novel in English
Richard Pickard
Book Review: Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism
Eric Prieto
Bertrand Westphal, Géocritique; réel, fiction, espace, (Paris: Minuit, 2007), 278pp. Bertrand Westphal, Geocriticism: Real and Fictional Spaces, trans. Robert T. Tally (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 192pp.
Sabine von Mering
Book Review: Postcolonial Green. Environmental Politics and World Narratives.