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Ecocriticism has grown into one of the most innovative and urgent fields of the humanities, and many useful ecocritical approaches for addressing our environmental crisis have been developed, discussed, and reconsidered during the last decade.

From various perspectives, ecocriticism both adopts and criticizes traditional analytical and theoretical models, resulting in an impressive methodological diversity, pushing the boundaries of the humanities. This open access book, Contemporary Ecocritical Methods, exemplifies this methodological variety and serves as a practical entry into the field. Fourteen chapters, written by scholars from various ecocritical sub-fields of environmental humanities, introduce a rich set of perspectives and their analytical tools.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Zooming Out to the Anthropocene
Björn Billing

2. Holistic Method as an Ecocritical Quest
Rikard Wingård

3. Power, Resistance, and More-than-Anthropocentric Leakages
Ann-Sofie Lönngren

4. Critical Utopia or Climate Change Dystopia?
Katarina Leppänen

5. Post- and Decolonial Ecocriticism: How to Read on an Unequal Planet
Rebecca Duncan

6. Timothy Morton’s Ambient Poetics: Swedish Romanticism without Nature
Erik van Ooijen

7. Econarratology and Metaphor Analysis
Johanna Lindbo

8. Animal Studies. Metonymic and Zoopoetic Ways of Reading
Amelie Björck

9. Co-researching Literature Conversations
Martin Hellström

10. Empirical Ecocriticism: Evaluating the Influence of Environmental Literature
Woyciech Malecki and Matthew Schneider-Mayerson

11. Overstories: Reading, Digital, Media, Ecologies
Per Israelson and Jesper Olsson

12. Intermedial Ecocriticism
Niklas Salmose and Jørgen Bruhn

13. Ecocritical Spatial Analysis Methods
Camilla Brudin Borg

14. Storying Exposure with the Transversal Methods of Eco-Critique
Cecilia Åsberg

Index

About the Contributors

Product details

Published 15 May 2024
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 298
ISBN 9781666937886
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 13 BW Illustrations
Dimensions 236 x 160 mm
Series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Camilla Brudin Borg

Camilla Brudin Borg is Senior Lecturer of Literary…

Anthology Editor

Rikard Wingård

Anthology Editor

Jørgen Bruhn

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Camilla Brudin Borg

Camilla Brudin Borg is Senior Lecturer of Literary…

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Rikard Wingård

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Jørgen Bruhn

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Björn Billing

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Amelie Björck

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Rebecca Duncan

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Per Israelson

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Johanna Lindbo

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Jesper Olsson

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Niklas Salmose

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Erik van Ooijen

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