A critical practice meant to understand the role of literature ‘in an immensely complex global system in which energy, matter, and ideas interact’ (Glotfelty 1996: xix), ecocriticism is an incitement to consider ‘culture’ not as apart from ‘nature’, but to see nature and culture, world and text, as mutually permeable. In its numerous methods and forms – encompassing or intertwining with feminist approaches and nature writing analyses, animal humanities and biosemiotics, environ- mental justice and postcolonial studies, petrocriticism and ‘toxic discourse’ – ecocriticism invites us to see how world and texts are connected, how they meet and eventually combine.
(Material) Ecocriticism
Serenella Iovino
2017-01-01
Abstract
A critical practice meant to understand the role of literature ‘in an immensely complex global system in which energy, matter, and ideas interact’ (Glotfelty 1996: xix), ecocriticism is an incitement to consider ‘culture’ not as apart from ‘nature’, but to see nature and culture, world and text, as mutually permeable. In its numerous methods and forms – encompassing or intertwining with feminist approaches and nature writing analyses, animal humanities and biosemiotics, environ- mental justice and postcolonial studies, petrocriticism and ‘toxic discourse’ – ecocriticism invites us to see how world and texts are connected, how they meet and eventually combine.
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