The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology

Book Overview

The Ecocriticism Reader is the first collection of its kind, an anthology of classic and cutting-edge writings in the rapidly emerging field of literary ecology. Exploring the relationship between literature and the physical environment, literary ecology is the study of the ways that writing both reflects and influences our interactions with the natural world.

An introduction to the field as well as a source book, The Ecocriticism Reader defines ecological literary discourse and sketches its development over the past quarter-century. The twenty-five selections in this volume, a mixture of reprinted and original essays, look backward to origins and forward to trends and provide generally appealing and lucidly written examples of the range of ecological approaches to literature. Lists of recommended readings, relevant periodicals, and professional organizations offer direction for further study.

The Ecocriticism Reader is an illuminating entree into a field of study fully engaged with our most pressing contemporary problem--the global environmental crisis.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820317810
• ISBN13: 9780820317816
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 456 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Essential in the field

This is an absolutely essential collection; more than that, it is filled with incredible and illuminating thinking and writing. A must-have.

a solid introduction to ecocriticism

This is the sort of book that makes every environmental scholar green with envy that they didn't pen it themselves. This book, together with only a few others, provides a powerful introduction to the growing field of ecocriticism. I have refered my students to this work and indeed found it to be very useful as a background reader and guide when penning my own recent book of ecocriticsm concerning contemporary nature writing about water - Deep Immersion: The Experience of Water.

A splendid collection of ecocritical essays

If any reader has interest in ecocriticism, never miss this canonical book! The introduction by Cheryll Glotfelty draws an important map for ecocritical studies. This book has collected almost the most crucial essays by the most important scholars on this (interdisciplinary) field. Besides, this book also introduces top fifteen choices for further recommended reading and other useful references (including books, periodicals, and professional organizations). The contributors are briefly introduced as well. With the help of Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, I believe you will learn much more as myself.

The best collection of ecocriticism to date.

In my investigations, this is the first collection of ecocritical essays that attempts to lay a foundation and project a future. Ecocriticism is gaining popularity and is being accepted as a serious mode of discourse for literary studies. This book will help people understand the background and fundamentals behind this new tradition in literary criticism