subject:(ecocriticism)

1. Afzal, Alia. Ecocritical post-colonial studies on humans, land, and animals.

Degree: 2017, University of Northern Iowa

URL: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/etd/414

1 PDF file (iii, 96 pages) Advisors/Committee Members: Pierre Damien Mvuyekure, Chair, Thesis Committee.

Subjects/Keywords: Ecocriticism

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Afzal, A. (2017). Ecocritical post-colonial studies on humans, land, and animals. (Thesis). University of Northern Iowa. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uni.edu/etd/414

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Afzal, Alia. “Ecocritical post-colonial studies on humans, land, and animals.” 2017. Thesis, University of Northern Iowa. Accessed February 16, 2020. https://scholarworks.uni.edu/etd/414.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Afzal, Alia. “Ecocritical post-colonial studies on humans, land, and animals.” 2017. Web. 16 Feb 2020.

Vancouver:

Afzal A. Ecocritical post-colonial studies on humans, land, and animals. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Northern Iowa; 2017. [cited 2020 Feb 16]. Available from: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/etd/414.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Afzal A. Ecocritical post-colonial studies on humans, land, and animals. [Thesis]. University of Northern Iowa; 2017. Available from: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/etd/414

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Hong Kong

2. Gualtieri, Joseph John. Literature and the Anthropocene.

Degree: PhD, 2017, University of Hong Kong

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10722/249196

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Since 2000, when geologist Paul Crutzen first mooted the idea that the planet was entering a new epoch dominated by humans, his term for this… (more)

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Since 2000, when geologist Paul Crutzen first mooted the idea that the planet was entering a new epoch dominated by humans, his term for this new epoch—the Anthropocene—has grown in popularity. At the same time, as awareness of the scale and dangers associated withof ongoing environmentalecological crises has spread, a new geographical environmental imagination has emerged to grapple with the challenges of life on a rapidly changing planet. This thesis looks at contemporary literary and critical responses to four environmental ecological crises—the disappearance of open landscapes, mass extinction, climate change, and the spread of waste—in order to examine how the cultural sphere has begun to engage with the political, environmentalecological, and social issues that intertwine in the Anthropocene. I argue that while each of the texts examined here offers a distinct response to these crises, they share a broad vision of an Anthropocene future marked by the emergence of agency in non-human objects; the end of the separation between nature and culture; and a skeptical response to promises of technological deliverance. As a whole, these anxieties point toward both a de-centering of human subjectivity and an end to human exceptionalism at the very moment that human activity begins to restructure the workings of the Earth System. In addition to reflecting anxieties about possible Anthropocene futures, I argue that a close reading of these texts offers implicit critiques of the standard Anthropocene narrative, according to which a unitary humanity has unknowingly stumbled into more power than it can handle. This narrative threatens to securitize the issues of planetary change, with the effect that possible solutions to the crises can be reached only by reliance on “experts” and through solutions that operate within (but do not question) current political and economic systems; instead, I show that the texts examined in this thesis respond to current environmental crises by pluralizing the Anthropocene and opening up new modes of engagement that are made possible when the discourse is loosed from its origin in the scientific community. To do this, the texts examined here—which range from travel writing and other forms of literary non-fiction to popular criticism as well as novels and films—draw attention to the spaces, communities, and nonhumans that are left out of the standard narrative, and give voice to the planetary-scale threats that emerge when human activity intersects with and interrupts planetary systems. This thesis contends that the first generation of Anthropocene cultural works offers both warnings of coming disruptions as well as diagnoses of the current inequalities and social practices that invite the worst of possible futures. Ultimately, the texts disclose new modes of de-centering, connection, and collaboration with nonhuman forces in order to gesture toward a brighter future. [451 words]

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English

Doctoral

Doctor of Philosophy

Advisors/Committee Members: Kuehn, JC.

Subjects/Keywords: Environmental literature; Ecocriticism

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Gualtieri, J. J. (2017). Literature and the Anthropocene. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Hong Kong. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10722/249196

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Gualtieri, Joseph John. “Literature and the Anthropocene.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Hong Kong. Accessed February 16, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/249196.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Gualtieri, Joseph John. “Literature and the Anthropocene.” 2017. Web. 16 Feb 2020.

Vancouver:

Gualtieri JJ. Literature and the Anthropocene. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Hong Kong; 2017. [cited 2020 Feb 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10722/249196.

Council of Science Editors:

Gualtieri JJ. Literature and the Anthropocene. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Hong Kong; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10722/249196

Montana Tech

3. Hammond, Yvonne Michelle. Taming the Wild: On Womanhood, Nation and Nature in Ann-Marie Macdonald's Fall on Your Knees and The Way the Crow Flies.

Degree: MA, 2010, Montana Tech

URL: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/944

► This project evaluates the work of Canadian author and playwright Ann-Marie Macdonald in the context of links between ecocritical, feminist and post-colonial perspectives; it seeks… (more)

▼ This project evaluates the work of Canadian author and playwright Ann-Marie Macdonald in the context of links between ecocritical, feminist and post-colonial perspectives; it seeks to understand how broader definitions for gender provide an alternative to the patriarchal binaries that limit both individual and national identities. Part of the Canadian conscious is an anxiety that questions not only the way difference impacts their culture, but also how these differences speak to a lack of a homogenized national identity. This study focuses on Macdonaldï¿½s novels Fall on Your Knees (1996) and The Way the Crow Flies (2003) , in order to examine histories that have traditionally been excluded, stories outside of colonial, and later, national rhetoric. Macdonald exhumes these stories, elevating womenï¿½s voices, in particular, to reveal the danger of limiting visions of personal identity. These identities, particularly national identities, implicitly reflect deeply imbedded, and often disregarded, relationships with our natural environment. Thus, national and individual identities are inseparable from ecological concerns. Fall on Your Knees uses the image and context of gardens as a means of discovery, particularly in imaging the history of colonial settlement. The Way the Crow Flies continues this work to explore the impact of modernity and the continued policies of categorization and, subsequently, subjugation. Modern visions for land development and industrialization inform perspectives about place and selfhood as landscapes experienced a form of colonization that revised definitions for natural and unnatural spaces. These definitions are similar to those for male and female, which have traditionally place the latter in a subjugate position. The inscription of femininity parallels that of the land, its traumas providing an important collusion between land and people. It is this paperï¿½s contention that Macdonald uses her stories to destabilize male/female binaries and, ultimately, suggest an alternative to restrictive identities.

Subjects/Keywords: Canada; ecocriticism; feminism

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Hammond, Y. M. (2010). Taming the Wild: On Womanhood, Nation and Nature in Ann-Marie Macdonald's Fall on Your Knees and The Way the Crow Flies. (Masters Thesis). Montana Tech. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/944

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Hammond, Yvonne Michelle. “Taming the Wild: On Womanhood, Nation and Nature in Ann-Marie Macdonald's Fall on Your Knees and The Way the Crow Flies.” 2010. Masters Thesis, Montana Tech. Accessed February 16, 2020. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/944.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Hammond, Yvonne Michelle. “Taming the Wild: On Womanhood, Nation and Nature in Ann-Marie Macdonald's Fall on Your Knees and The Way the Crow Flies.” 2010. Web. 16 Feb 2020.

Vancouver:

Hammond YM. Taming the Wild: On Womanhood, Nation and Nature in Ann-Marie Macdonald's Fall on Your Knees and The Way the Crow Flies. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Montana Tech; 2010. [cited 2020 Feb 16]. Available from: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/944.

Council of Science Editors:

Hammond YM. Taming the Wild: On Womanhood, Nation and Nature in Ann-Marie Macdonald's Fall on Your Knees and The Way the Crow Flies. [Masters Thesis]. Montana Tech; 2010. Available from: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/944

Cornell University

4. Phillips, Alexander. Transfiguring Social Nature: Environmental And Aesthetic Transformations In German Realism .

Degree: 2015, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/41069

► TRANSFIGURING SOCIAL NATURE: ENVIRONMENTAL AND AESTHETIC TRANSFORMATIONS IN GERMAN REALISM Alexander Robert Phillips, Ph.D. This dissertation investigates the relation between post-1848 German realist aesthetics and… (more)

▼ TRANSFIGURING SOCIAL NATURE: ENVIRONMENTAL AND AESTHETIC TRANSFORMATIONS IN GERMAN REALISM Alexander Robert Phillips, Ph.D. This dissertation investigates the relation between post-1848 German realist aesthetics and the representation of nature as physically reconstituted by the human labor process. Environmental transformation in the form of cultivation, pollution, and sprawl would appear to pose a challenge to a realist poetics invested in achieving artistic status through "transfiguration" (Verklärung), or the synthesis between material reality and poesy, inasmuch as the mimetic representation of ecological depredation carries with it a reassertion of both prosaic capitalist relations and the base material reality capitalism produces. This study asks how Adalbert Stifter, Wilhelm Raabe, and Theodor Fontane negotiate the mimetic and poetic imperatives of realism where their texts encounter environmental depredation. I argue that the environment's increasingly social character feeds into each author's poetic project, such that environmental transformation grounds a dynamic realism that binds political critique with a broader theoretical reflection on the conditions of possibility for poesy in modernity. The encounter between the social production of nature and poetic realism is crucial for Stifter, for whom the cultivation of the environment mirrors the task he assigns to realist narrative of making perceptible the general moral order that sustains the universe. These cultivated utopias are impossible for Wilhelm Raabe, for whom environmental depredation becomes an agent of generative destabilization that stymies the transfiguration gesture and catalyzes a critical reevaluation of the status of art in a degraded world. Finally I turn to Fontane's Stechlin to consider how the poetic character of Brandenburg is determined by an emerging Anthropocene reality. By looking at the relation between environmental depredation and art, "Transfiguring Social Nature" develops a line of ecocritical inquiry that moves beyond the focus of much earlier ecocritical scholarship on nature and place to account for the poetically constitutive aspects of environmental transformation while also considering its deleterious effects. At the same time considering environmental issues as integral to the texts' otherwise social framework allows us to see realism both as a dynamic literary and theoretical discourse that also figures within the genealogy of contemporary environmentalism. Advisors/Committee Members: McBride,Patrizia C. (committeeMember), Fleming,Paul A. (committeeMember).

Subjects/Keywords: realism; environment; ecocriticism

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Phillips, A. (2015). Transfiguring Social Nature: Environmental And Aesthetic Transformations In German Realism . (Thesis). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/41069

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Phillips, Alexander. “Transfiguring Social Nature: Environmental And Aesthetic Transformations In German Realism .” 2015. Thesis, Cornell University. Accessed February 16, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/41069.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Phillips, Alexander. “Transfiguring Social Nature: Environmental And Aesthetic Transformations In German Realism .” 2015. Web. 16 Feb 2020.

Vancouver:

Phillips A. Transfiguring Social Nature: Environmental And Aesthetic Transformations In German Realism . [Internet] [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2015. [cited 2020 Feb 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/41069.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

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Phillips A. Transfiguring Social Nature: Environmental And Aesthetic Transformations In German Realism . [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/41069

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Queens University

5. Sattelmayer, Eva. Ökologische Weltbilder in den Werken Adalbert Stifters - Einheitserfahrung und Herrschaftswille .

Degree: German, 2015, Queens University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/13473

► It is an undeniable fact that Adalbert Stifter paid detailed attention to his natural surroundings. Yet in the 1980s and 90s Stifter research focused on… (more)

▼ It is an undeniable fact that Adalbert Stifter paid detailed attention to his natural surroundings. Yet in the 1980s and 90s Stifter research focused on the author’s use of language: scholars endeavoured to emancipate the text from the intention of the author and to argue that a hermeneutic understanding of the text as a unity of meaning was impossible. More recently, scholars have pointed out the importance of Stifter’s ethical world-view, which insists on an equal treatment of all things. Following on from those arguments, this thesis conducts a reading of Stifter’s works from an ecological point of view and their implication for a good life in accordance with nature. Albert Schweitzer’s "Reverence for Life" and Arne Næss’ Deep Ecology are used as the ethical and philosophical framework. The four discussed works, "Der Hochwald" (1841/ 44), "Bergkristall" (1845/ 53), "Kalkstein" (1848/ 53) and "Der Nachsommer" (1857) show affinities and inconsistencies both between the different texts and within the individual texts themselves. Especially "Der Nachsommer" contradicts itself with its insistence that humans are only an "insertion" in the history of the earth on the one hand and its sympathy for the human desire for domination of the land on the other. Firstly, the thesis shows how the complexity of the ecological imagery in Stifter’s texts reflects the intricacy of a nineteenth-century perception of the world. The enthusiastic conquest of nature and the desire to reorder nature exists simultaneously with the scientific questioning of the subjective world-view. This questioning of a subjective perception of the world is secondly linked to the ecological imagery in Stifter’s work. His idiosyncratic language gives life to all things. This language, which I call an ecocentric narrative style, can be retraced in all his works, even in "Nachsommer". Consequently, the experience of the sublime is shifted into an ecological sublime. The perception of the immensity of nature and one’s own insignificance is not to be overcome by reason, but is instead a comforting realisation of one’s own relationship to and oneness with the entirety of the natural world.

Subjects/Keywords: Ecocriticism; Adalbert Stifter

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Sattelmayer, E. (2015). Ökologische Weltbilder in den Werken Adalbert Stifters - Einheitserfahrung und Herrschaftswille . (Thesis). Queens University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1974/13473

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Sattelmayer, Eva. “Ökologische Weltbilder in den Werken Adalbert Stifters - Einheitserfahrung und Herrschaftswille .” 2015. Thesis, Queens University. Accessed February 16, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/13473.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Sattelmayer, Eva. “Ökologische Weltbilder in den Werken Adalbert Stifters - Einheitserfahrung und Herrschaftswille .” 2015. Web. 16 Feb 2020.

Vancouver:

Sattelmayer E. Ökologische Weltbilder in den Werken Adalbert Stifters - Einheitserfahrung und Herrschaftswille . [Internet] [Thesis]. Queens University; 2015. [cited 2020 Feb 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/13473.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Sattelmayer E. Ökologische Weltbilder in den Werken Adalbert Stifters - Einheitserfahrung und Herrschaftswille . [Thesis]. Queens University; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/13473

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Exeter

6. Darlington, Miriam. Ecoseismology : writing the wild in crisis.

Degree: PhD, 2014, University of Exeter

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10871/15017

► This thesis represents live and on-going research into the recent literary movement that has been termed ‘the new nature writing’. A focus within this movement… (more)

▼ This thesis represents live and on-going research into the recent literary movement that has been termed ‘the new nature writing’. A focus within this movement has arisen which employs particular alertness to aural soundscapes in wild nature. This focus, which for the purposes of the thesis I am limiting to the British Isles, appears to be an increasing attempt to harness the human ear and employ it as a tool for ‘seismic’ effect. The method used, which I have termed ecoseismology, works at the intersection of the sensory and the literary; by using deep listening to external soundscapes it aims to achieve an integrative, internal effect through rendering of experience. Ecoseismology is a response to an intense period of ecological and environmental uncertainty. It is guided by immersive observation, often forensic in its closely-heard detail, where ecological particularities and sonorous dimensions of the natural world are sensed and rendered. Ecoseismology sensitises the listener and the reader in order to achieve shifts in scale where awareness moves from the particular, close-up, ‘heard’ and ‘felt’ experience towards thinking about more ecosensitive ways of living on the planet. To locate the spectrum of experience and output encompassed by ecoseismology the thesis exposes its three stages. By applying these stages to nature writings of the last ten years, texts that use or fit the ecoseismic method are identified. At the heart of these stages is the ecoseismic moment: a re-imagining of crisis provoking thought about the wider ecosystem which is intended to be a catalyst for change. The two ‘classic’ otter books which inspired the creative part of the submission, Otter Country, In Search of the Wild Otter, (shortened to Otter Country from here), are measured against ecoseismology. Then Otter Country’s own ecoseismic structure, which entails a quest for increased understanding of an elusive wild mammal, is measured. Alongside the sensory aspects of close encounter in this new otter narrative, issues of wider ecology are triggered, but didactic solutions are not directly sought. Thoughts provoked by this last aspect of Otter Country provide directions for further research: is it more effective to make readers feel, or to urge them to act? How is this movement within the new nature writing spreading to other genres and media, and what forms will it take, what effects will it have?

Subjects/Keywords: 809; Ecocriticism; New Nature Writing

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Darlington, M. (2014). Ecoseismology : writing the wild in crisis. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Exeter. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10871/15017

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Darlington, Miriam. “Ecoseismology : writing the wild in crisis.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Exeter. Accessed February 16, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/15017.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Darlington, Miriam. “Ecoseismology : writing the wild in crisis.” 2014. Web. 16 Feb 2020.

Vancouver:

Darlington M. Ecoseismology : writing the wild in crisis. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Exeter; 2014. [cited 2020 Feb 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10871/15017.

Council of Science Editors:

Darlington M. Ecoseismology : writing the wild in crisis. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Exeter; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10871/15017

Dalhousie University

7. Abeysekera, Vasana. An Astonishing Symphony of Voices: Birdsong in the Poetry of Don McKay.

Degree: MA, Department of English, 2011, Dalhousie University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10222/14170

► Numerous scholars have observed that Don McKay’s poetry is profoundly musical and particularly attentive to the sounds of birds. However, it has not been examined… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Poetry; Music; Ecocriticism; Birdsong

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Abeysekera, V. (2011). An Astonishing Symphony of Voices: Birdsong in the Poetry of Don McKay. (Masters Thesis). Dalhousie University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10222/14170

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Abeysekera, Vasana. “An Astonishing Symphony of Voices: Birdsong in the Poetry of Don McKay.” 2011. Masters Thesis, Dalhousie University. Accessed February 16, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10222/14170.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Abeysekera, Vasana. “An Astonishing Symphony of Voices: Birdsong in the Poetry of Don McKay.” 2011. Web. 16 Feb 2020.

Vancouver:

Abeysekera V. An Astonishing Symphony of Voices: Birdsong in the Poetry of Don McKay. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Dalhousie University; 2011. [cited 2020 Feb 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10222/14170.

Council of Science Editors:

Abeysekera V. An Astonishing Symphony of Voices: Birdsong in the Poetry of Don McKay. [Masters Thesis]. Dalhousie University; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10222/14170

University of Oxford

8. Stewart, Kirsty. Nature and narratives : landscapes, plants and animals in Palaiologan vernacular literature.

Degree: PhD, 2015, University of Oxford

URL: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2c1ad3f2-6ca1-4a5b-b682-fbb0bfc58fd2 ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.730513

► This thesis identifies the role of nature within Palaiologan entertainment literature. The texts on which this thesis focuses include a selection of the Palaiologan novels,… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Ecocriticism; Byzantine literature; Byzantine

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Stewart, K. (2015). Nature and narratives : landscapes, plants and animals in Palaiologan vernacular literature. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Oxford. Retrieved from https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2c1ad3f2-6ca1-4a5b-b682-fbb0bfc58fd2 ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.730513

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Stewart, Kirsty. “Nature and narratives : landscapes, plants and animals in Palaiologan vernacular literature.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Oxford. Accessed February 16, 2020. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2c1ad3f2-6ca1-4a5b-b682-fbb0bfc58fd2 ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.730513.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Stewart, Kirsty. “Nature and narratives : landscapes, plants and animals in Palaiologan vernacular literature.” 2015. Web. 16 Feb 2020.

Vancouver:

Stewart K. Nature and narratives : landscapes, plants and animals in Palaiologan vernacular literature. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2015. [cited 2020 Feb 16]. Available from: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2c1ad3f2-6ca1-4a5b-b682-fbb0bfc58fd2 ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.730513.

Council of Science Editors:

Stewart K. Nature and narratives : landscapes, plants and animals in Palaiologan vernacular literature. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2015. Available from: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2c1ad3f2-6ca1-4a5b-b682-fbb0bfc58fd2 ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.730513

University of Hong Kong

9. Wan, Yee-yan. Beyond anthropocentrism : environmentalist concerns in contemporary literature.

Degree: MA, 2015, University of Hong Kong

URL: Wan, Y. [溫怡欣]. (2015). Beyond anthropocentrism : environmentalist concerns in contemporary literature. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.5353/th_b5611512 ; http://hdl.handle.net/10722/221300

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Environmental issues have been the major concern in various facets of the modern life of most global citizens as it is detrimental to human life.… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Environmental protection in literature; Ecocriticism

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Wan, Y. (2015). Beyond anthropocentrism : environmentalist concerns in contemporary literature. (Masters Thesis). University of Hong Kong. Retrieved from Wan, Y. [溫怡欣]. (2015). Beyond anthropocentrism : environmentalist concerns in contemporary literature. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.5353/th_b5611512 ; http://hdl.handle.net/10722/221300

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Wan, Yee-yan. “Beyond anthropocentrism : environmentalist concerns in contemporary literature.” 2015. Masters Thesis, University of Hong Kong. Accessed February 16, 2020. Wan, Y. [溫怡欣]. (2015). Beyond anthropocentrism : environmentalist concerns in contemporary literature. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.5353/th_b5611512 ; http://hdl.handle.net/10722/221300.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Wan, Yee-yan. “Beyond anthropocentrism : environmentalist concerns in contemporary literature.” 2015. Web. 16 Feb 2020.

Vancouver:

Wan Y. Beyond anthropocentrism : environmentalist concerns in contemporary literature. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Hong Kong; 2015. [cited 2020 Feb 16]. Available from: Wan, Y. [溫怡欣]. (2015). Beyond anthropocentrism : environmentalist concerns in contemporary literature. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.5353/th_b5611512 ; http://hdl.handle.net/10722/221300.

Council of Science Editors:

Wan Y. Beyond anthropocentrism : environmentalist concerns in contemporary literature. [Masters Thesis]. University of Hong Kong; 2015. Available from: Wan, Y. [溫怡欣]. (2015). Beyond anthropocentrism : environmentalist concerns in contemporary literature. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.5353/th_b5611512 ; http://hdl.handle.net/10722/221300

Duquesne University

10. McTier, Rosemary S. "An Insect View of its Plain": Nature and Insects in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Muir.

Degree: PhD, English, 2009, Duquesne University

URL: https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/916

► The simultaneous emergence of ecocriticism and cultural entomology has created a critical need for a discussion of the appearance and function of insects as they… (more)

▼ The simultaneous emergence of ecocriticism and cultural entomology has created a critical need for a discussion of the appearance and function of insects as they appear in literature. While nineteenth-century nature writing is frequently examined by ecocritics, very few have chosen to explore how critical writers such as Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, and John Muir incorporate insects into their work. This study explores three interrelated issues connected to encounters with and explorations of the microscopic and unacknowledged position of insects in nature: first, how insects factor into their growing knowledge about nature and ecology; second, how nature serves as a conduit to or inspiration for spirituality, revealing in its intricate processes the messages of the divine; and third, how insects are important not only for their critical ecological function but also for their symbolic value in suggesting the possibility of a renewed connection and relationship with the natural world and God, either through an awareness of ecological integration, an acknowledgement that all life participates in a joyous celebration of creation and has a right to exist, or a metamorphic process that unites the physical and spiritual in an attempt to transcend earthly experience. The introduction of this dissertation discusses how the evolution of ecocriticism establishes the legitimacy and importance of an insect's "point of view." Chapter one provides a partial "cultural portrait" of insects in the nineteenth century, examining insects in science, agriculture, folklore, fashion, religion, and literature. Chapter two focuses on Thoreau's interpretation of the song of the crickets as a universal choir which nature continually invites humanity to join, on his interest in the reflective eyes of the water-skaters of Walden and their ability to exist between the margins of heaven and earth, and on his fascination with the process of metamorphosis in relation to both insects and human potential. Chapter three explores Dickinson's vision of nature as an interdependent society of insects, animals, and plants, each having an important and unique purpose to fulfill, and her complex attitude toward cocoons and metamorphosis, especially in relation to her fear of death and uncertainly about salvation. Chapter four establishes Muir as a true "lover of nature" who views insects and all other "citizens" of creation as his "brothers," equal members in a creation designed and lovingly maintained by God. Muir is especially interested in bees, attempting to adopt their point of view when he describes the flowers of California and idealizing apiculture as a form of agriculture in harmony with the needs of both nature and humanity. Advisors/Committee Members: Frederick Newberry, Elaine Frantz Parsons, John Dolis, Linda Kinnahan.

Subjects/Keywords: insects; ecocriticism; Thoreau; Dickinson; Muir

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McTier, R. S. (2009). "An Insect View of its Plain": Nature and Insects in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Muir. (Doctoral Dissertation). Duquesne University. Retrieved from https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/916

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

McTier, Rosemary S. “"An Insect View of its Plain": Nature and Insects in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Muir.” 2009. Doctoral Dissertation, Duquesne University. Accessed February 16, 2020. https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/916.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

McTier, Rosemary S. “"An Insect View of its Plain": Nature and Insects in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Muir.” 2009. Web. 16 Feb 2020.

Vancouver:

McTier RS. "An Insect View of its Plain": Nature and Insects in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Muir. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Duquesne University; 2009. [cited 2020 Feb 16]. Available from: https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/916.

Council of Science Editors:

McTier RS. "An Insect View of its Plain": Nature and Insects in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Muir. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Duquesne University; 2009. Available from: https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/916

Montana Tech

11. Ely, Adrianna C. The Ecology of Empowerment: Gardens and Machines in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes and Almanac of the Dead.

Degree: MA, 2012, Montana Tech

URL: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/983

► This thesis explores the tropes of the garden and technology in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Gardens in the Dunes and Almanac of the Dead, and identifies… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: ecocriticism; gardens; postcolonial; Silko; technology

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Ely, A. C. (2012). The Ecology of Empowerment: Gardens and Machines in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes and Almanac of the Dead. (Masters Thesis). Montana Tech. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/983

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Ely, Adrianna C. “The Ecology of Empowerment: Gardens and Machines in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes and Almanac of the Dead.” 2012. Masters Thesis, Montana Tech. Accessed February 16, 2020. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/983.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ely, Adrianna C. “The Ecology of Empowerment: Gardens and Machines in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes and Almanac of the Dead.” 2012. Web. 16 Feb 2020.

Vancouver:

Ely AC. The Ecology of Empowerment: Gardens and Machines in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes and Almanac of the Dead. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Montana Tech; 2012. [cited 2020 Feb 16]. Available from: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/983.

Council of Science Editors:

Ely AC. The Ecology of Empowerment: Gardens and Machines in Leslie Marmon Silko's Gardens in the Dunes and Almanac of the Dead. [Masters Thesis]. Montana Tech; 2012. Available from: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/983

University of Arizona

12. Lyons, Emily Renee. Beyond the Tangled Bank: Posthuman Ecosystems in Nineteenth-Century British Literature .

Degree: 2018, University of Arizona

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/627738

► The first generation of humans to live in a world indelibly marked by industrialism came of age in the nineteenth century. Industrialism set a pace… (more)

▼ The first generation of humans to live in a world indelibly marked by industrialism came of age in the nineteenth century. Industrialism set a pace of rapid social, economic, and environmental change that would come to define the Victorian era, and that would reverberate from England throughout the entire world. The advances of the period that afforded insights into the connections between the macro and the micro in physics, biology, geology, and other branches of the natural sciences, as well as the networks of trade and communication being laid down across the globe as part of the project of imperialist expansion and exploitation, all called new attention to the entangled relations of humans, human-created institutions and technologies, and nonhuman nature. The nineteenth-century British texts that are the subject of this study engage with these entangled relations in ways that call into question what it means to be human. Since the poststructuralist turn, scholarly work on the Victorian era touching questions of human subjectivity has often emphasized how the dominant power structures of the nineteenth century—white heteropatriarchy, industrial capitalism, and imperialism—upheld a model of human subjective measured against the standard of the white able-bodied man of property, and heavily invested in enforcing rigid hierarchies of race, class, and gender. I argue that the works of literature in this study demonstrate that the category of the human has not been so narrowly defined and fixed in the Victorian imagination as has previously been supposed, but is instead profoundly unstable and porous. Human subjectivity in these texts emerges from non-linear, non-hierarchical networked relations among human and nonhuman agents, forming what I term “posthuman ecosystems.” These Victorian examples prefigure posthumanist and ecocritical discourse of the anthropocene. Advisors/Committee Members: Raval, Suresh S (advisor), Selisker, Scott (committeemember), Hurh, John P. (committeemember), Dushane, Allison (committeemember).

Subjects/Keywords: Anthropocene; British; Ecocriticism; Posthuman; Victorian

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Lyons, E. R. (2018). Beyond the Tangled Bank: Posthuman Ecosystems in Nineteenth-Century British Literature . (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Arizona. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10150/627738

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Lyons, Emily Renee. “Beyond the Tangled Bank: Posthuman Ecosystems in Nineteenth-Century British Literature .” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Arizona. Accessed February 16, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/627738.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Lyons, Emily Renee. “Beyond the Tangled Bank: Posthuman Ecosystems in Nineteenth-Century British Literature .” 2018. Web. 16 Feb 2020.

Vancouver:

Lyons ER. Beyond the Tangled Bank: Posthuman Ecosystems in Nineteenth-Century British Literature . [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona; 2018. [cited 2020 Feb 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/627738.

Council of Science Editors:

Lyons ER. Beyond the Tangled Bank: Posthuman Ecosystems in Nineteenth-Century British Literature . [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Arizona; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/627738

Cornell University

13. Ensor, Sarah. Spinster Ecology: Rethinking Relation In The American Literary Environment .

Degree: 2012, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/31148

► Spinster Ecology develops a practice of queer ecocriticism by articulating intersections between nineteenth-century American literature and twentieth-century environmental thought. Focusing on texts by Sarah Orne… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: American literature; ecocriticism; queer theory

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Ensor, S. (2012). Spinster Ecology: Rethinking Relation In The American Literary Environment . (Thesis). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/31148

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Ensor, Sarah. “Spinster Ecology: Rethinking Relation In The American Literary Environment .” 2012. Thesis, Cornell University. Accessed February 16, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/31148.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ensor, Sarah. “Spinster Ecology: Rethinking Relation In The American Literary Environment .” 2012. Web. 16 Feb 2020.

Vancouver:

Ensor S. Spinster Ecology: Rethinking Relation In The American Literary Environment . [Internet] [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2012. [cited 2020 Feb 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/31148.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Ensor S. Spinster Ecology: Rethinking Relation In The American Literary Environment . [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/31148

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Cornell University

14. Tang, Ruoji. Nature's Persistence: Romanticism and the Rhetoric of Implication .

Degree: 2019, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/67273

► Nature’s Persistence draws upon the rhetorical strategies of Romantic writing to reimagine ecocriticism as also a more historiographically vulnerable epistemic practice. Responding to the tendency… (more)

▼ Nature’s Persistence draws upon the rhetorical strategies of Romantic writing to reimagine ecocriticism as also a more historiographically vulnerable epistemic practice. Responding to the tendency to see cast ecocriticism and ecological thinking more broadly as systemic, structural, or network-based approaches, my project argues for an ecocritical sensibility that proceeds through the reconstitution of minute histories. Rereading the works of writers in the British Romantic tradition including William Wordsworth, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, James Hutton, and Percy Shelley, I retrace a process of becoming “contingent” by where “ecological” relations come to be at stake through their entanglement in scenes of “un-learning,” of encountering a “forgetting” that insinuates into what is self-evidently “environmental” in modernity’s history. I argue that Romantic forms of the lyric, autobiography, and didactic poetry and prose consistently reassert perception and its discursive constitution as an issue in quotidian environmental engagement. While much of contemporary eco-theory focuses on questions of internal organization and the reconceptualization agency, often appropriating the “literary” as a vehicle for addressing questions of praxis, my project rearticulates ecocriticism as a provisionally “liberating” process of becoming implicated in the literary, in the lyric, autobiography, and pedagogies and the minute histories they begin to construct. Tracing experiences of the familiar and the didactic, renders seemingly immovable “material conditions” more malleable, more susceptible to reconfiguration. Similarly, while ecocritical engagements with “vulnerability” have been understandably preoccupied with bodies and affect under the neoliberal regime, the authors in this project recast “environmental vulnerability” as itself an epistemic vulnerability to forgetting and its resurfacing. Advisors/Committee Members: Chase, Cynthia (committeeMember), Gilgen, Peter (committeeMember), Goldstein, Amanda Jo (committeeMember).

Subjects/Keywords: Romanticism; English literature; Ecocriticism; Theory

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Tang, R. (2019). Nature's Persistence: Romanticism and the Rhetoric of Implication . (Thesis). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/67273

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Tang, Ruoji. “Nature's Persistence: Romanticism and the Rhetoric of Implication .” 2019. Thesis, Cornell University. Accessed February 16, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/67273.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Tang, Ruoji. “Nature's Persistence: Romanticism and the Rhetoric of Implication .” 2019. Web. 16 Feb 2020.

Vancouver:

Tang R. Nature's Persistence: Romanticism and the Rhetoric of Implication . [Internet] [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2019. [cited 2020 Feb 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/67273.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Tang R. Nature's Persistence: Romanticism and the Rhetoric of Implication . [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/67273

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Cornell University

15. Weiger, Sarah. The Bird Is The Feeling: Romantic Natural History And Its Subjects .

Degree: 2011, Cornell University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/30726

► "The Bird is the Feeling: Romantic Natural History and its Subjects" argues that Romantic natural history writers and the nonhuman objects of their work are… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: natural history; romanticism; ecocriticism

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Weiger, S. (2011). The Bird Is The Feeling: Romantic Natural History And Its Subjects . (Thesis). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/30726

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Weiger, Sarah. “The Bird Is The Feeling: Romantic Natural History And Its Subjects .” 2011. Thesis, Cornell University. Accessed February 16, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/30726.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Weiger, Sarah. “The Bird Is The Feeling: Romantic Natural History And Its Subjects .” 2011. Web. 16 Feb 2020.

Vancouver:

Weiger S. The Bird Is The Feeling: Romantic Natural History And Its Subjects . [Internet] [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2011. [cited 2020 Feb 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/30726.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Weiger S. The Bird Is The Feeling: Romantic Natural History And Its Subjects . [Thesis]. Cornell University; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/30726

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Melbourne

16. Ahmadi, Mohebat. Towards an ecocritical theatre: staging the Anthropo(s)cene.

Degree: 2017, University of Melbourne

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11343/190775

► The current epoch of a human-induced interval in geological history has been called the Anthropocene Age. This has been a focus of concern that has… (more)

▼ The current epoch of a human-induced interval in geological history has been called the Anthropocene Age. This has been a focus of concern that has expanded from a scientific to a broadly cultural inquiry. This period of profound human impact on the Earth’s ecosystems poses a paradigm shift in thinking about ideas of nature, ecology, and Homo sapiens itself, calling for new modes of address and representation. This thesis aims to make a timely intervention into the humanist bias of theatre by devising conceptual and aesthetic principles that relate to the Anthropocene. In the theatre, this geological, temporal, and spatial frame is shifting the focus from the human to the planetary scope, and my thesis examines how theatre is responding to this new reality by turning abstract ideas into “material expressions.” This project theorises the theatre’s role as a transformative force in dislocating dominant forms of anthropocentrism and recalibrating the problems of scale and agency born of current ecological challenges. Looking at the work of Caryl Churchill, Stephen Sewell, Andrew Bovell, EM Lewis, and Chantal Bilodeau through the lens of Anthropocene-oriented ecocriticism, this thesis argues that ecocriticism and environmental perspectives are needed in theatre studies to sharpen the focus on the revolutions the Anthropocene causes in humanity’s condition. In a detailed analysis of key works by these playwrights in relation to global and material trends of ecocriticism, the thesis demonstrates a collection of innovative responses to representational shifts towards human and nonhuman intra-relationships, communicating the discomforting truth of hyperobjects such as the change of climate, the presence of toxic pollution, the effects of extinction, and the anxiety of sustainability. Ecological thinking applied to theatre foregrounds the “agential force” of nonhuman animals and objects, calling for a rethinking of the human subject as a “geological actor.” Sketching a trajectory from plays that raise awareness of environmental issues to plays that directly undertake posthumanist ecological perspectives, this thesis shows how theatre and performance anticipates and stages the Anthropocene. This study demonstrates not just that the Anthropocene provides a challenge to the theatrical world but that theatre provides significant modes of inquiring into and locating it.

Subjects/Keywords: contemporary theatre; ecocriticism; Anthropocene

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Ahmadi, M. (2017). Towards an ecocritical theatre: staging the Anthropo(s)cene. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Melbourne. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11343/190775

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Ahmadi, Mohebat. “Towards an ecocritical theatre: staging the Anthropo(s)cene.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Melbourne. Accessed February 16, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11343/190775.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ahmadi, Mohebat. “Towards an ecocritical theatre: staging the Anthropo(s)cene.” 2017. Web. 16 Feb 2020.

Vancouver:

Ahmadi M. Towards an ecocritical theatre: staging the Anthropo(s)cene. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Melbourne; 2017. [cited 2020 Feb 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11343/190775.

Council of Science Editors:

Ahmadi M. Towards an ecocritical theatre: staging the Anthropo(s)cene. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Melbourne; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11343/190775

University of Toronto

17. Duncan, Claire McEwen. Horticultural Hybrids: Plants, Women, and Rhetoric in Early Modern England.

Degree: PhD, 2017, University of Toronto

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/97096

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This dissertation examines the rhetorical transformation of female bodies into plants and the gendering of plants in early modern English literature and science. Bringing gardening… (more)

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This dissertation examines the rhetorical transformation of female bodies into plants and the gendering of plants in early modern English literature and science. Bringing gardening manuals and obstetrical treatises into conversation with a wide range of literary texts, such as Isabella Whitney’s A Sweet Nosgay, Mary Wroth’s The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania, John Milton’s Paradise Lost, and William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale and Titus Andronicus, I argue that these horticultural metamorphoses occur when the generative potential of the female body threatens to elude patriarchal containment. Yet, I contend that the plant-women resist objectification by defying the conflation entirely, by wielding authority to metamorphose themselves into female-horticultural hybridity, or by discovering the surprising opportunity to embody new forms of discourse. Early modern ecocriticism and history of science typically detail the relationship between humans and nature, but my research reconceives that link by examining what happens when these two categories are rhetorically conflated. The resulting breakdown of boundaries reveals how early modern women and nature might evade patriarchal restrictions by becoming newly hybrid vegetal bodies capable of speaking from a dual subject position. The intermingling of horticulture and language in early modern England – where books could be gardens, forests, and posies, flowers could be powerful rhetoric, and grafting could be a graphic act of writing – creates room for this evasion to occur. I structure the project thematically, with an opening chapter on books as gardens, and subsequent chapters focusing on the female body as an enclosed garden, a flower, a fruit tree, and a forest tree. Metaphorical language creates these hybrid vegetal-female bodies, but this dissertation argues that the blurring of horticultural generation and literary or linguistic generation allows these feminized plant objects to regain authority over language and to remake themselves as subjects.

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Advisors/Committee Members: Harvey, Elizabeth D, English.

Subjects/Keywords: ecocriticism; gender; horticulture; literature; 0593

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Duncan, C. M. (2017). Horticultural Hybrids: Plants, Women, and Rhetoric in Early Modern England. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Toronto. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1807/97096

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Duncan, Claire McEwen. “Horticultural Hybrids: Plants, Women, and Rhetoric in Early Modern England.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Toronto. Accessed February 16, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/97096.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Duncan, Claire McEwen. “Horticultural Hybrids: Plants, Women, and Rhetoric in Early Modern England.” 2017. Web. 16 Feb 2020.

Vancouver:

Duncan CM. Horticultural Hybrids: Plants, Women, and Rhetoric in Early Modern England. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Toronto; 2017. [cited 2020 Feb 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/97096.

Council of Science Editors:

Duncan CM. Horticultural Hybrids: Plants, Women, and Rhetoric in Early Modern England. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Toronto; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/97096

University of California – Riverside

18. Lee, Diana Dodson. Natural Antagonisms: Violence and the Environment in Contemporary Latin American Narrative.

Degree: Spanish, 2015, University of California – Riverside

URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7bv0p3xz

► ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATIONNatural Antagonisms: Violence and the Environment inContemporary Latin American NarrativebyDiana Lynn Dodson LeeDoctor of Philosophy, Graduate Program in SpanishUniversity of California, Riverside,… (more)

▼ ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATIONNatural Antagonisms: Violence and the Environment inContemporary Latin American NarrativebyDiana Lynn Dodson LeeDoctor of Philosophy, Graduate Program in SpanishUniversity of California, Riverside, August 2015 Dr. Raymond Leslie Williams, ChairpersonThis project explores intersections between representations of violence and the environment in contemporary Latin American narrative. I analyze the way in which specific novels represent the wider interconnectedness of a world in which humans commit violence against other humans as well as against non-human actors, and how these complex dimensions of interactions intersect within environments that comprise both the foreground and the background to these violent narratives. In Chapter One I review the literature regarding violence and literature. I also discuss the field of ecocriticism, which studies representations of the environment in literature. In Chapter Two I explore the way in which the urban environment is related to violence in three Mexican novels: Morirás lejos (1967) by José Emilio Pacheco, 2666 (2004) by Roberto Bolaño, and La muerte me da (2007) by Cristina Rivera Garza. I assert that all three works correlate depictions of the urban environment with aggression against humans in order to engage with the topic of violence. I also consider issues of gender and violence in 2666 and La muerte me da. In Chapter Three I analyze two Colombian novels: El ruido de las cosas al caer (2011) by Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Cien años de soledad (1967) by Gabriel García Márquez. In the first section I utilize trauma theory to contend that in Vásquez’s novel, the urban space is diminished in the mind of the narrator due to a violent traumatic event he suffers. I then develop a reading of the novel looking at animal studies, connecting it to Agamben’s theory of biopolitics. I postulate that both animals and humans are vulnerable in the biopolitical state presented in the novel. Finally I connect the same definition of biopolitics to Cien años de soledad and propose that both the characters and the natural environment suffer under the state of exception. In my final analysis chapter I consider Imposible equilibrio (1995) by Mempo Giardinelli, an Argentine novel which consciously explores ecological issues. I incorporate the discipline of posthumanism by positing that the novel challenges traditional subjectivities of animals and denounces the environmental impact of anthropocentric systems of governance.

Subjects/Keywords: Latin American literature; Latin American studies; Biopolitics; Ecocriticism; Human/Animal Studies; Latin American Ecocriticism; Urban Ecocriticism; Violence

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Lee, D. D. (2015). Natural Antagonisms: Violence and the Environment in Contemporary Latin American Narrative. (Thesis). University of California – Riverside. Retrieved from http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7bv0p3xz

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Lee, Diana Dodson. “Natural Antagonisms: Violence and the Environment in Contemporary Latin American Narrative.” 2015. Thesis, University of California – Riverside. Accessed February 16, 2020. http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7bv0p3xz.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Lee, Diana Dodson. “Natural Antagonisms: Violence and the Environment in Contemporary Latin American Narrative.” 2015. Web. 16 Feb 2020.

Vancouver:

Lee DD. Natural Antagonisms: Violence and the Environment in Contemporary Latin American Narrative. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – Riverside; 2015. [cited 2020 Feb 16]. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7bv0p3xz.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Lee DD. Natural Antagonisms: Violence and the Environment in Contemporary Latin American Narrative. [Thesis]. University of California – Riverside; 2015. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7bv0p3xz

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Alberta

19. Bowman-Broz, Norah. The Mountain Pine Beetle Chronicles: A Bioregional Literary Study of the Anomalous Mountain Pine Beetle and the Lodgepole Pine Forests in the Northern Interior of British Columbia.

Degree: PhD, Department of English and Film Studies, 2014, University of Alberta

URL: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/f4752h56f

► This study examines settler culture representations of the mixed-pine forests and the anomalous mountain pine beetle in the northern interior forests of British Columbia, Canada.… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: pine beetle; ecocriticism; bioregionalism; British Columbia

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Bowman-Broz, N. (2014). The Mountain Pine Beetle Chronicles: A Bioregional Literary Study of the Anomalous Mountain Pine Beetle and the Lodgepole Pine Forests in the Northern Interior of British Columbia. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Alberta. Retrieved from https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/f4752h56f

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Bowman-Broz, Norah. “The Mountain Pine Beetle Chronicles: A Bioregional Literary Study of the Anomalous Mountain Pine Beetle and the Lodgepole Pine Forests in the Northern Interior of British Columbia.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Alberta. Accessed February 16, 2020. https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/f4752h56f.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Bowman-Broz, Norah. “The Mountain Pine Beetle Chronicles: A Bioregional Literary Study of the Anomalous Mountain Pine Beetle and the Lodgepole Pine Forests in the Northern Interior of British Columbia.” 2014. Web. 16 Feb 2020.

Vancouver:

Bowman-Broz N. The Mountain Pine Beetle Chronicles: A Bioregional Literary Study of the Anomalous Mountain Pine Beetle and the Lodgepole Pine Forests in the Northern Interior of British Columbia. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Alberta; 2014. [cited 2020 Feb 16]. Available from: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/f4752h56f.

Council of Science Editors:

Bowman-Broz N. The Mountain Pine Beetle Chronicles: A Bioregional Literary Study of the Anomalous Mountain Pine Beetle and the Lodgepole Pine Forests in the Northern Interior of British Columbia. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Alberta; 2014. Available from: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/f4752h56f

University of Minnesota

20. Wellman, Sara. Post-pastoral possibilities: nature and the literary imaginary in Early Modern France.

Degree: PhD, French, 2011, University of Minnesota

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/120062

► My dissertation argues for a new approach to early modern pastoral literature, reading representations of bucolic life not as escapist fantasies or political allegories, but… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Early Modern; Ecocriticism; Ecofeminism; Pastoral; French

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Wellman, S. (2011). Post-pastoral possibilities: nature and the literary imaginary in Early Modern France. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Minnesota. Retrieved from http://purl.umn.edu/120062

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Wellman, Sara. “Post-pastoral possibilities: nature and the literary imaginary in Early Modern France.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Minnesota. Accessed February 16, 2020. http://purl.umn.edu/120062.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Wellman, Sara. “Post-pastoral possibilities: nature and the literary imaginary in Early Modern France.” 2011. Web. 16 Feb 2020.

Vancouver:

Wellman S. Post-pastoral possibilities: nature and the literary imaginary in Early Modern France. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Minnesota; 2011. [cited 2020 Feb 16]. Available from: http://purl.umn.edu/120062.

Council of Science Editors:

Wellman S. Post-pastoral possibilities: nature and the literary imaginary in Early Modern France. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Minnesota; 2011. Available from: http://purl.umn.edu/120062

University of Minnesota

21. Trevathan, John. Beyond the Niche: Ecological Cultural Production in the Iberian Peninsula.

Degree: PhD, Hispanic and Luso Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics, 2013, University of Minnesota

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11299/175496

► Discussion of ecology and Iberian cultures in the US Academy is in its nascent stage. While many works have analyzed the representation of nature in… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: contemporary Spanish literature; ecocriticism; Iberian Studies

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Trevathan, J. (2013). Beyond the Niche: Ecological Cultural Production in the Iberian Peninsula. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Minnesota. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11299/175496

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Trevathan, John. “Beyond the Niche: Ecological Cultural Production in the Iberian Peninsula.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Minnesota. Accessed February 16, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11299/175496.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Trevathan, John. “Beyond the Niche: Ecological Cultural Production in the Iberian Peninsula.” 2013. Web. 16 Feb 2020.

Vancouver:

Trevathan J. Beyond the Niche: Ecological Cultural Production in the Iberian Peninsula. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Minnesota; 2013. [cited 2020 Feb 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11299/175496.

Council of Science Editors:

Trevathan J. Beyond the Niche: Ecological Cultural Production in the Iberian Peninsula. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Minnesota; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11299/175496

University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign

22. McQuiston, Erin. Toxic gardens: narratives of toxicity in twentieth-century American and British fiction.

Degree: PhD, 0311, 2015, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/72966

► This dissertation studies the roots and development of toxic discourse in Anglo-American science fiction. I analyze a range of literary works, including Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini’s… (more)

▼ This dissertation studies the roots and development of toxic discourse in Anglo-American science fiction. I analyze a range of literary works, including Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini’s Daughter” (1844), H.G. Wells’s The Food of the Gods (1903), Ward Moore’s Greener Than You Think (1947), Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962), Richard Powers’s Gain (1998), and Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl (2009). My consideration of this literary tradition marks a departure from early models of ecocriticism which focused predominantly on U.S. nonfiction and realist “mainstream” fiction. I trace the continuities and innovations in narratives of toxicity across four broad periods in the history of science fiction: early “proto-science fiction,” which draws heavily on allegorical and mythic structures (particularly of the Edenic garden); the early 1900s, when the conventions of the toxic narrative begin to solidify in science fiction pulp magazines, and then shade into Cold War-era fiction preoccupied with nuclear fallout; a subsequent “Silent Spring era” that imagines landscapes and bodies haunted by pollution and pesticides as well as radiation; and post-modern/contemporary science fiction marked by complexity, ambivalence, and genetic determinism. This study also delineates connections between the science and practice of toxicology and the literary artifacts that depict toxins, including memoirs, popular science writing, and comic books as well as science fiction novels and short stories. An SF-inflected toxic discourse also appears in late twentieth and early twenty-first century “mainstream” fiction. Across this wide body of literature, three themes appear consistently: a fascination with the permeability of bodies, the dramatization of mundane and/or invisible threats (especially through gender and reproductive failure), and a deeply ambivalent attitude toward technology and the scientists who wield it. In many cases, these texts display competing – and even contradictory – responses to these issues. While SF is best known for responding to cultural and techno-scientific developments, this study reveals that the genre is constitutive, in addition to being reflexive or interpretive; as such, the study of SF is crucial for understanding the development of an increasingly complex and culturally pervasive toxic narrative. This literature suggests a culturally practicable alternative to the ideal of a pristine, un-touched nature; the toxic narrative represents a serious effort to reconcile the global with the microscopic, the natural with the unnatural, and the body with its environment. Advisors/Committee Members: Markley, Robert (advisor), Markley, Robert (Committee Chair), Schaffner, Spencer W. (committee member), Littlefield, Melissa M. (committee member), Alaimo, Stacy (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: science fiction (SF); toxicity; toxic narrative; ecocriticism

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McQuiston, E. (2015). Toxic gardens: narratives of toxicity in twentieth-century American and British fiction. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2142/72966

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

McQuiston, Erin. “Toxic gardens: narratives of toxicity in twentieth-century American and British fiction.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. Accessed February 16, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/72966.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

McQuiston, Erin. “Toxic gardens: narratives of toxicity in twentieth-century American and British fiction.” 2015. Web. 16 Feb 2020.

Vancouver:

McQuiston E. Toxic gardens: narratives of toxicity in twentieth-century American and British fiction. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign; 2015. [cited 2020 Feb 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/72966.

Council of Science Editors:

McQuiston E. Toxic gardens: narratives of toxicity in twentieth-century American and British fiction. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/72966

University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign

23. Brant, Daniel. Geographies of suffering: the literature of catastrophe in the Francophone Caribbean.

Degree: PhD, French, 2015, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/78619

► In the context of climate change and increasing vulnerability to catastrophe across the globe, this dissertation investigates the political, historical, and cultural stakes of disasters… (more)

▼ In the context of climate change and increasing vulnerability to catastrophe across the globe, this dissertation investigates the political, historical, and cultural stakes of disasters in Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Haiti from the nineteenth century to the present. In so doing, it examines how Caribbean writers respond to the political and social challenges that disasters pose using methodologies from literary criticism, cultural studies, and historical analysis. Attending closely to representation, textuality, and shifting historical contexts, this study analyzes major works by French, Martinican, Guadeloupean, and Haitian writers including Voltaire, Victor Schœlcher, Aimé Césaire, Maryse Condé, and Yanick Lahens alongside other primary sources like travelogues and administrative reports. Developed across four chapters, it makes three significant contributions to Caribbean studies while illuminating theoretical discussions in postcolonial studies, ecocriticism, and disaster studies. First, it underscores the role that the continual risk of natural catastrophe has played in Caribbean history and thought. Second, this project demonstrates how Francophone writing since the Haitian Revolution (1791- 1804) has refashioned catastrophe into a valuable critical framework for reconsidering the Caribbean from within and without. Third, it reveals how this “literature of catastrophe” rethinks domination in the region and articulates new discourses on culture, memory, and identity. Starting in the introduction, which outlines the theoretical and critical contexts for studying Caribbean discourses of catastrophe, this dissertation expands on the concern in trauma studies for the subject’s loss of and return to the ordering logic of narrative to argue that representations of suffering also constitute “geographies of suffering” that re-situate the subject in space and geography with respect to world-systems like European colonialism and postmodern globalization. The ensuing four chapters and conclusion examine the contours of this notion in Caribbean discourses on catastrophe at the global, regional, and insular levels. Chapters one and four engage with the cosmopolitan layers of writing about Caribbean catastrophe in which authors including the Guadeloupean novelist Daniel Maximin and the Haitian writer Dany Laferrière among others use worldwide experiences of catastrophe to create new forms of global solidarities. Conversely, chapters two and three focus on the regional and local ripples of catastrophe across the Caribbean as well as in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Martinican literature. In this way, chapter two interrogates cross-island reflections on nineteenth-century earthquakes and ruins in Haiti and Guadeloupe while chapter three explores the place of the 1902 volcanic disaster with regards to shifting discourses on ethnic identity in the work of Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Suzanne Dracius. The conclusion, which highlights a burgeoning corpus of West Indian science fiction… Advisors/Committee Members: Murdoch, H. Adlai (advisor), Mathy, Jean-Philippe (Committee Chair), Flinn, Margaret C. (committee member), Bray, Patrick M (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Disaster; Ecocriticism; Haiti; Martinique; Guadeloupe; Postcolonialism

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Brant, D. (2015). Geographies of suffering: the literature of catastrophe in the Francophone Caribbean. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2142/78619

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Brant, Daniel. “Geographies of suffering: the literature of catastrophe in the Francophone Caribbean.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. Accessed February 16, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/78619.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Brant, Daniel. “Geographies of suffering: the literature of catastrophe in the Francophone Caribbean.” 2015. Web. 16 Feb 2020.

Vancouver:

Brant D. Geographies of suffering: the literature of catastrophe in the Francophone Caribbean. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign; 2015. [cited 2020 Feb 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/78619.

Council of Science Editors:

Brant D. Geographies of suffering: the literature of catastrophe in the Francophone Caribbean. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/78619

Universiteit Utrecht

24. Lattanzio, G. Earthquake in Italy: How Natural Disaster Are Interpreted and Remembered.

Degree: 2013, Universiteit Utrecht

URL: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/285238

► This thesis examines the ways in which earthquakes have been culturally remembered in Italy since the massive Messina earthquake of 1908. It starts from the… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Natural disaster; earthquake; cultural memory; trauma; ecocriticism

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Lattanzio, G. (2013). Earthquake in Italy: How Natural Disaster Are Interpreted and Remembered. (Masters Thesis). Universiteit Utrecht. Retrieved from http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/285238

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Lattanzio, G. “Earthquake in Italy: How Natural Disaster Are Interpreted and Remembered.” 2013. Masters Thesis, Universiteit Utrecht. Accessed February 16, 2020. http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/285238.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Lattanzio, G. “Earthquake in Italy: How Natural Disaster Are Interpreted and Remembered.” 2013. Web. 16 Feb 2020.

Vancouver:

Lattanzio G. Earthquake in Italy: How Natural Disaster Are Interpreted and Remembered. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Universiteit Utrecht; 2013. [cited 2020 Feb 16]. Available from: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/285238.

Council of Science Editors:

Lattanzio G. Earthquake in Italy: How Natural Disaster Are Interpreted and Remembered. [Masters Thesis]. Universiteit Utrecht; 2013. Available from: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/285238

Louisiana State University

25. Krassenstein, Stephanie Jean Osburn. Toward a Northern Irish Pastoral: Reading the Rural in Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon.

Degree: PhD, English Language and Literature, 2014, Louisiana State University

URL: etd-04032014-120538 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/3988

► The goal of this dissertation is three-fold: to mount a comparison of Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon, arguing that the two poets actually share much… (more)

▼ The goal of this dissertation is three-fold: to mount a comparison of Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon, arguing that the two poets actually share much in common, particularly in their use of the pastoral mode; to argue that the pastoral mode offers a provocative, even radical platform for postcolonial writing and thinking; and to argue that reading Heaney and Muldoon, and Ireland in general, as postcolonial offers much for critics and scholars. This project looks particularly at Heaney’s use of gender in landscape to argue that Heaney relies on an abject pastoral mode, one which is dominated by excess fertility and dangerous maternity, to portray an Irish landscape that is both colonially scarred and potentially radically anti-colonial. These readings stretch from Heaney’s early pastoral poems to his famous sequence of bog poems and through to his much more recent eclogues, and in each instance this project seeks to bring a discussion of gender to the fore—thus making an intervention into the existing scholarship, which often overlooks or elides these concerns. The latter chapters focus on Paul Muldoon’s poems, arguing that Muldoon’s pastoral poems use the pastoral as a platform for writing about Irish cultural tropes and stereotypes. This project divides Muldoon’s pastoral poems into two groups: the first, his pastoral performances, are marked by his use of the pastoral as a setting from which to play with stock characters and commodified Irish culture in a way that both mocks and celebrates such tropes; the second, his “water poems,” use bodies of water as a form of landscape writing that enables Muldoon both to ground his identity to Northern Ireland and to take flight, embarking on transatlantic crossings from Northern Ireland to America to the Amazon and back again. In these readings of Muldoon, this project seeks to establish a reading of Muldoon that explores and celebrates his roots in the rural and the natural—a perspective that is often lost in Muldoon scholarship, which traditionally has been much more concerned with global, urban, and cosmopolitan concerns.

Subjects/Keywords: postcolonial literature; postcolonial poetry; ecocriticism; abjection

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Krassenstein, S. J. O. (2014). Toward a Northern Irish Pastoral: Reading the Rural in Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon. (Doctoral Dissertation). Louisiana State University. Retrieved from etd-04032014-120538 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/3988

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Krassenstein, Stephanie Jean Osburn. “Toward a Northern Irish Pastoral: Reading the Rural in Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Louisiana State University. Accessed February 16, 2020. etd-04032014-120538 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/3988.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Krassenstein, Stephanie Jean Osburn. “Toward a Northern Irish Pastoral: Reading the Rural in Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon.” 2014. Web. 16 Feb 2020.

Vancouver:

Krassenstein SJO. Toward a Northern Irish Pastoral: Reading the Rural in Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Louisiana State University; 2014. [cited 2020 Feb 16]. Available from: etd-04032014-120538 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/3988.

Council of Science Editors:

Krassenstein SJO. Toward a Northern Irish Pastoral: Reading the Rural in Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Louisiana State University; 2014. Available from: etd-04032014-120538 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/3988

Montana Tech

26. Schneeberger, Aaron Francis. Aesthetics of the Brink: Environmental Crisis and the Sublime in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.

Degree: MA, 2011, Montana Tech

URL: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/105

► Mary Shelleyï¿½s Frankenstein is today remembered as the progenitor of the science fiction genre, the first major literary work to link a long history… (more)

▼ Mary Shelleyï¿½s Frankenstein is today remembered as the progenitor of the science fiction genre, the first major literary work to link a long history of fictional narratives concerning the origins of life ï¿½ notably drawing itself from the stories of Prometheus and Miltonï¿½s Paradise Lost ï¿½ to the scientific rationalism of the enlightenment. Of the science fiction stories that would follow, Philip K. Dickï¿½s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? perhaps remains one of the closest to Shelleyï¿½s novel in terms of its concerns and themes. Dickï¿½s text is concerned with the thematic of the creation of human simulacra, but its interests are more involved with the ethical implications of technological advancement on society than the fantastic technologies he writes of. Given these similarities, notions of nature and the environment might seem ancillary to an analysis of these texts. These issues, however, are precisely what my thesis claims to be central to a proper understanding of Dickï¿½s and Shelleyï¿½s novels. The aesthetic categories of the beautiful, and most importantly the sublime, are essential to this research. Both classic works of aesthetic theory ï¿½ namely Burke and Kant ï¿½ as well as mobilizations of the sublime that account for contemporary cultural trends ï¿½ such as those of Fredric Jameson and Jean-Francois Lyotard ï¿½ are utilized so as to track an epistemological shift in both conceptions of the sublime, as well as the relationship between humanity and its environment. This shift, from viewing the natural world as a space wherein humans immanently dwell, to a positivist notion of nature as resources for human manipulation ï¿½ documented in Caroline Merchantï¿½s The Death of Nature ï¿½ can be linked to what Leo Marx describes as the movement from a natural to a technological sublime, and is both chronicled and critiqued in Frankenstein. Dickï¿½s Androids picks up where Shelleyï¿½s novel leaves off, carrying an absolute ideological positivism to one possible conclusion, environmental and social crisis, inaugurating, interestingly, a return to a bizarre, and textually ironic spiritualism in the form of the religion Mercerism.

Subjects/Keywords: Ecocriticism; Entropy; Postmodernism; Romanticism; Technological Sublime

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Schneeberger, A. F. (2011). Aesthetics of the Brink: Environmental Crisis and the Sublime in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. (Masters Thesis). Montana Tech. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/105

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Schneeberger, Aaron Francis. “Aesthetics of the Brink: Environmental Crisis and the Sublime in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.” 2011. Masters Thesis, Montana Tech. Accessed February 16, 2020. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/105.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Schneeberger, Aaron Francis. “Aesthetics of the Brink: Environmental Crisis and the Sublime in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.” 2011. Web. 16 Feb 2020.

Vancouver:

Schneeberger AF. Aesthetics of the Brink: Environmental Crisis and the Sublime in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Montana Tech; 2011. [cited 2020 Feb 16]. Available from: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/105.

Council of Science Editors:

Schneeberger AF. Aesthetics of the Brink: Environmental Crisis and the Sublime in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. [Masters Thesis]. Montana Tech; 2011. Available from: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/105

Montana Tech

27. Knapp, Robert Nolan. ORPHIC ECOLOGY: MELANCHOLY AND THE POETICS OF ROBERT DUNCAN.

Degree: MA, 2014, Montana Tech

URL: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/4211

► This paper explores the poetry of Robert Duncan and the political potential of melancholy. Relying on Judith Butler’s examination of the difference between “mourning” and… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Ovid; Robert Duncan; ecocriticism; queer theory; anarchism

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Knapp, R. N. (2014). ORPHIC ECOLOGY: MELANCHOLY AND THE POETICS OF ROBERT DUNCAN. (Masters Thesis). Montana Tech. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/4211

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Knapp, Robert Nolan. “ORPHIC ECOLOGY: MELANCHOLY AND THE POETICS OF ROBERT DUNCAN.” 2014. Masters Thesis, Montana Tech. Accessed February 16, 2020. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/4211.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Knapp, Robert Nolan. “ORPHIC ECOLOGY: MELANCHOLY AND THE POETICS OF ROBERT DUNCAN.” 2014. Web. 16 Feb 2020.

Vancouver:

Knapp RN. ORPHIC ECOLOGY: MELANCHOLY AND THE POETICS OF ROBERT DUNCAN. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Montana Tech; 2014. [cited 2020 Feb 16]. Available from: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/4211.

Council of Science Editors:

Knapp RN. ORPHIC ECOLOGY: MELANCHOLY AND THE POETICS OF ROBERT DUNCAN. [Masters Thesis]. Montana Tech; 2014. Available from: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/4211

McMaster University

28. Reszitnyk, Andrew. Uncovering the Anthropocenic Imaginary: The Metabolization of Disaster in Contemporary American Culture.

Degree: PhD, 2015, McMaster University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/18660

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This dissertation examines the emergence of a discursive regime, which I call “the Anthropocenic Imaginary,” that invokes, instrumentalizes, and distorts the language of the earth… (more)

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This dissertation examines the emergence of a discursive regime, which I call “the Anthropocenic Imaginary,” that invokes, instrumentalizes, and distorts the language of the earth sciences to bolster a neoliberal project of depoliticization. In recent years, the Anthropocene, a proposed geologic epoch, in which humanity figures as a planetary force and the planet exists as a human artifact, has become a frequent subject matter within American art and scholarship. It is now common for texts to refer, implicitly or explicitly, to the Earth’s transformation by humanity. This dissertation wagers that the Anthropocene should be understood not only as a geo-scientific descriptor, but also as a troping device, discursive regime, and cultural imaginary, which frames cultural and scholarly productions in a manner that legitimates the political and economic status quo. I argue that, despite appearing to be the product of studies that address the Earth’s anthropogenic modification, this discursive regime is a symptom of neoliberalism, a political, economic, and cultural ideology that schools subjects into privatized modes of being in order to induce acquiescence to the dominance of economic elites. I demonstrate that the discursive regime of the Anthropocenic Imaginary causes recent works of American scholarship, literature, and photography, which seem as though they should incite activism, to become depoliticized. I suggest that the Anthropocenic Imaginary is characterized by the metabolization of disaster, the transmutation of shocking material into something stultifying. I argue that it is possible to interpret the texts that the Anthropocenic Imaginary instrumentalizes otherwise than as legitimations of the status quo, and to bring to light the intractable disaster these works embody. Within this state of disaster, I suggest that it is possible to uncover a politically generative condition of non-normativity, which suggests that the way things are now cannot be made permanent.

Dissertation

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

This dissertation responds to the advent within American culture of a range of discourses that posit humanity as a world-altering force and the planet as a human artifact. It seeks to answer the following questions: What is it about the present moment that makes the thought that humans are a terrestrial force appealing? Who benefits from the idea that humans are defined by the capacity to act as world-shapers? Against the scholarly consensus, I propose that this idea is not the product of scientific studies that announce the dawn of the Anthropocene, a geologic epoch characterized by anthropogenic modification of the earth system. Rather, I suggest that it is the effect of a discursive regime that I call “the Anthropocenic Imaginary,” which instrumentalizes the vocabulary of the earth sciences to legitimate the dominance of neoliberalism, a political, economic, and cultural ideology, which exerts a depoliticizing influence upon culture and scholarship.

Advisors/Committee Members: Clark, David L., English and Cultural Studies.

Subjects/Keywords: Anthropocene; American Literature; Ecocriticism; Cultural Studies

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Reszitnyk, A. (2015). Uncovering the Anthropocenic Imaginary: The Metabolization of Disaster in Contemporary American Culture. (Doctoral Dissertation). McMaster University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11375/18660

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Reszitnyk, Andrew. “Uncovering the Anthropocenic Imaginary: The Metabolization of Disaster in Contemporary American Culture.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, McMaster University. Accessed February 16, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11375/18660.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Reszitnyk, Andrew. “Uncovering the Anthropocenic Imaginary: The Metabolization of Disaster in Contemporary American Culture.” 2015. Web. 16 Feb 2020.

Vancouver:

Reszitnyk A. Uncovering the Anthropocenic Imaginary: The Metabolization of Disaster in Contemporary American Culture. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. McMaster University; 2015. [cited 2020 Feb 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/18660.

Council of Science Editors:

Reszitnyk A. Uncovering the Anthropocenic Imaginary: The Metabolization of Disaster in Contemporary American Culture. [Doctoral Dissertation]. McMaster University; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/18660

Leiden University

29. Duncan, Sarah. Visual, lyrical and sonic explorations of nature, humanity and technology in Björk’s songs and music videos.

Degree: 2019, Leiden University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/69245

This paper explores the relationship between nature and humanity in an increasingly digitalising society as portrayed in Björk’s discography. Advisors/Committee Members: Horsman, Yasco (advisor).

Subjects/Keywords: iceland; Björk; visual; lyrical; sonic; ecocriticism

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APA (6^th Edition):

Duncan, S. (2019). Visual, lyrical and sonic explorations of nature, humanity and technology in Björk’s songs and music videos. (Masters Thesis). Leiden University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1887/69245

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Duncan, Sarah. “Visual, lyrical and sonic explorations of nature, humanity and technology in Björk’s songs and music videos.” 2019. Masters Thesis, Leiden University. Accessed February 16, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1887/69245.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Duncan, Sarah. “Visual, lyrical and sonic explorations of nature, humanity and technology in Björk’s songs and music videos.” 2019. Web. 16 Feb 2020.

Vancouver:

Duncan S. Visual, lyrical and sonic explorations of nature, humanity and technology in Björk’s songs and music videos. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Leiden University; 2019. [cited 2020 Feb 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/69245.

Council of Science Editors:

Duncan S. Visual, lyrical and sonic explorations of nature, humanity and technology in Björk’s songs and music videos. [Masters Thesis]. Leiden University; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1887/69245

Boston University

30. Neilsen, Kate. Toxic ecologies: contamination and transgression in Victorian fiction, 1851-1900.

Degree: PhD, English, 2018, Boston University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/31690

► In mid-to-late Victorian fiction, pollution and waste drip, ooze, and seep through the built environment, threatening the boundaries between public and private, rich and poor,… (more)

▼ In mid-to-late Victorian fiction, pollution and waste drip, ooze, and seep through the built environment, threatening the boundaries between public and private, rich and poor, healthy and ill. Refuse and dirt held a paradoxical place in nineteenth-century society, as matter that was economically valuable, yet had the capacity to contaminate. My dissertation moves from this tension to ask three questions: What roles did dirt and waste play in critiques of capitalism? How did industrial and organic pollution shape the way that the Victorians imagined the natural world in the latter half of the nineteenth century? And how did changing views of the environment transform what constituted a “natural” social order? The project focuses on four Victorian authors fascinated by pollution and waste – Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Charles Dickens, Robert Browning, and Richard Jefferies – and contextualizes their work in a broader discourse on waste by such figures as John Ruskin, John Stuart Mill, Henry Mayhew, and Charles Darwin. For the Victorians, questions of nature and pollution were not only environmental or scientific. They also had serious implications for the way that society was structured. I argue that for some nineteenth-century writers, visions of strange, contaminated environments offered novel versions of the “natural” order, which in turn allowed them to depict alternative social orders that emphasized stewardship and care while challenging the logic of industrial capitalism. Scholars of the Victorian period have largely discussed depictions of filth in the context of England’s public health movement of the 1840s, identifying links between the containment of dirt and social boundaries. My dissertation builds on this work by arguing that pollution undermined Victorian efforts to distinguish the natural from the unnatural, enabling writers to portray different “natural” models of social, political, and economic organization. Taken together, the works of Mayhew, Braddon, Dickens, Browning, and Jefferies reflect a strain of Victorian thought that saw dirt and waste as central to the development of a just and compassionate social order. Rather than expressing an unmitigated disgust for contaminated spaces, these writers move beyond the nineteenth-century desire for the containment of filth to inscribe otherwise monstrous spaces with possibility. Advisors/Committee Members: Brown, Julia (advisor), Henchman, Anna (advisor).

Subjects/Keywords: English literature; Ecocriticism; Nature; Pollution; Sanitation; Victorian

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APA (6^th Edition):

Neilsen, K. (2018). Toxic ecologies: contamination and transgression in Victorian fiction, 1851-1900. (Doctoral Dissertation). Boston University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2144/31690

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Neilsen, Kate. “Toxic ecologies: contamination and transgression in Victorian fiction, 1851-1900.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Boston University. Accessed February 16, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2144/31690.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Neilsen, Kate. “Toxic ecologies: contamination and transgression in Victorian fiction, 1851-1900.” 2018. Web. 16 Feb 2020.

Vancouver:

Neilsen K. Toxic ecologies: contamination and transgression in Victorian fiction, 1851-1900. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Boston University; 2018. [cited 2020 Feb 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/31690.

Council of Science Editors:

Neilsen K. Toxic ecologies: contamination and transgression in Victorian fiction, 1851-1900. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Boston University; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/31690

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