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 March 04, 2021. https://scholarworks.uni.edu/etd/414.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Afzal, Alia. “Ecocritical post-colonial studies on humans, land, and animals.” 2017. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Afzal A. Ecocritical post-colonial studies on humans, land, and animals. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Northern Iowa; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. 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

Cornell University

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

Degree: PhD, Germanic Studies, 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: Schwarz,Anette (chair), McBride,Patrizia C. (committee member), Fleming,Paul A. (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: realism; environment; ecocriticism

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

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Phillips, Alexander. “Transfiguring Social Nature: Environmental And Aesthetic Transformations In German Realism.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/41069.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Phillips, Alexander. “Transfiguring Social Nature: Environmental And Aesthetic Transformations In German Realism.” 2015. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Phillips A. Transfiguring Social Nature: Environmental And Aesthetic Transformations In German Realism. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/41069.

Council of Science Editors:

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

Queens University

3. 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 March 04, 2021. 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. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Sattelmayer E. Ökologische Weltbilder in den Werken Adalbert Stifters - Einheitserfahrung und Herrschaftswille . [Internet] [Thesis]. Queens University; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/13473.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

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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

4. Johnson II, Phillip D. "The Nonchalant Flick of the Carp's Tail": A Material Ecocritical Analysis of US Literature of Carp Introduction and Invasion.

Degree: 2014, University of Nevada – Reno

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11714/2982

► This dissertation separates American writing about carp into three extended chapters that organize the texts about carp (Cyprinus carpio) according to tropological themes that have… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Carp; Material Ecocriticism

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Johnson II, P. D. (2014). "The Nonchalant Flick of the Carp's Tail": A Material Ecocritical Analysis of US Literature of Carp Introduction and Invasion. (Thesis). University of Nevada – Reno. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11714/2982

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Johnson II, Phillip D. “"The Nonchalant Flick of the Carp's Tail": A Material Ecocritical Analysis of US Literature of Carp Introduction and Invasion.” 2014. Thesis, University of Nevada – Reno. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11714/2982.

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

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Johnson II, Phillip D. “"The Nonchalant Flick of the Carp's Tail": A Material Ecocritical Analysis of US Literature of Carp Introduction and Invasion.” 2014. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Johnson II PD. "The Nonchalant Flick of the Carp's Tail": A Material Ecocritical Analysis of US Literature of Carp Introduction and Invasion. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Nevada – Reno; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11714/2982.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
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Johnson II PD. "The Nonchalant Flick of the Carp's Tail": A Material Ecocritical Analysis of US Literature of Carp Introduction and Invasion. [Thesis]. University of Nevada – Reno; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11714/2982

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Dalhousie University

5. 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 March 04, 2021. 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. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Abeysekera V. An Astonishing Symphony of Voices: Birdsong in the Poetry of Don McKay. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Dalhousie University; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. 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

Cornell University

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

Degree: PhD, English Language and Literature, 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. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/30726

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Weiger, Sarah. “The Bird Is The Feeling: Romantic Natural History And Its Subjects.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/30726.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Weiger, Sarah. “The Bird Is The Feeling: Romantic Natural History And Its Subjects.” 2011. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Weiger S. The Bird Is The Feeling: Romantic Natural History And Its Subjects. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/30726.

Council of Science Editors:

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

Cornell University

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

Degree: PhD, English Language and Literature, 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)

▼ 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 Jewett, Henry David Thoreau, and Rachel Carson in which attention to the natural world is interwoven with a particularly reticent form of social interaction, the dissertation argues for the relational capacity of interpersonal and environmental forces typically understood to preclude connection: distance and remoteness, absence and silence, backwardness and death. Rethinking these categories as relational helps both to identify and to remedy a theoretical impasse that currently divides queer theory from ecocriticism: namely, the fields' conflicting stances toward (reproductive) futurity and toward the status of desire, pleasure, and limitation. Early attempts at queering ecocriticism have tended to emphasize nonnormative uses of natural spaces or to trouble the conceptions of nature and "the natural" that undergird mainstream environmentalism. My project, by contrast, locates queer theory's contribution to ecocriticism in questions of temporality, sociality, and tone. More specifically, I identify the spinster as a model for paradigms of relation, transmission, and inheritance that are indirect or askance. Taking heed of spinsterliness not only as a characterological or biographical phenomenon but also in its formal and stylistic instantiations, I argue, can help queer ecocriticism better engage literature. Whereas ecocritics tend to apologize for the way in which their attention to texts distances them from political engagement and the physical environment alike, this project makes a case for literariness in part by making a case for the relational and ethical capacities of distance itself. Advisors/Committee Members: Samuels, Shirley R (chair), Sachs, Aaron (committee member), Bogel, Fredric Victor (committee member), Francois, Anne-Lise (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: American literature; ecocriticism; queer theory

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

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Ensor, Sarah. “Spinster Ecology: Rethinking Relation In The American Literary Environment.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/31148.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ensor, Sarah. “Spinster Ecology: Rethinking Relation In The American Literary Environment.” 2012. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Ensor S. Spinster Ecology: Rethinking Relation In The American Literary Environment. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/31148.

Council of Science Editors:

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

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 ; https://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: 883; 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 ; https://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 March 04, 2021. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2c1ad3f2-6ca1-4a5b-b682-fbb0bfc58fd2 ; https://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. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Stewart K. Nature and narratives : landscapes, plants and animals in Palaiologan vernacular literature. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2c1ad3f2-6ca1-4a5b-b682-fbb0bfc58fd2 ; https://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 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.730513

University of Exeter

9. 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 March 04, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/15017.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Darlington, Miriam. “Ecoseismology : writing the wild in crisis.” 2014. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Darlington M. Ecoseismology : writing the wild in crisis. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Exeter; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. 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

University of Toronto

10. 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 March 04, 2021. 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. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Duncan CM. Horticultural Hybrids: Plants, Women, and Rhetoric in Early Modern England. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Toronto; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. 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 Melbourne

11. 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 March 04, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11343/190775.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ahmadi, Mohebat. “Towards an ecocritical theatre: staging the Anthropo(s)cene.” 2017. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Ahmadi M. Towards an ecocritical theatre: staging the Anthropo(s)cene. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Melbourne; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. 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 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 March 04, 2021. 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. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Lyons ER. Beyond the Tangled Bank: Posthuman Ecosystems in Nineteenth-Century British Literature . [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. 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

Montana Tech

13. 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 March 04, 2021. 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. 04 Mar 2021.

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 2021 Mar 04]. 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

14. Nolan, Sarah. Unnatural Ecopoetics: Unlikely Spaces in Contemporary Poetry.

Degree: 2015, University of Nevada – Reno

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11714/2505

► The shift toward and identification of what I am calling unnatural ecopoetics represents an important development for ecopoetics and more broadly for ecocriticism – first, through… (more)

▼ The shift toward and identification of what I am calling unnatural ecopoetics represents an important development for ecopoetics and more broadly for ecocriticism – first, through broader applicability of ecopoetic theory and second, through increased clarity surrounding the term ecopoetics. The identification and detailed breakdown of the central tenets of both early ecopoetics and the unnatural ecopoetics I am espousing here helps stabilize a field that has long been afflicted with conflicting definitions and understandings. Since its inception, the lack of clarity inherent within the term ecopoetics has been surprisingly detrimental to the field's expansion. I propose defining ecopoetics as a theoretical lens that studies the methods by which poets attempt to express the material and nonmaterial elements of real-world environmental experience, including subjective elements of that encounter, through poetic form and language. Put another way, ecopoetics investigates how poets attempt to use unique forms to capture the multiple elements that constitute lived experience while simultaneously foregrounding the textual space in which such expression occurs. Rather than separating the material world from nonmaterial aspects of experience, this understanding of the term ecopoetics focuses on the ways in which individual memory, personal experience, ideology, and the limitations of the senses shape experience and, just as importantly, on how new forms and experimentation with language can work to expose the agential power of the material and nonmaterial worlds alike. Unnatural ecopoetics employs experimental forms and self-reflexive commentary to express the disjointed and nonlinear aspects of experience while simultaneously moving the inherent limitations of the text to the fore. By continuing to move the definition of ecopoetics forward in this way, I not only expand the applicability of ecopoetic theory across literary studies and gain a more diverse understanding of the ways in which people from a variety of economic situations, cultures, locations, and ethnic backgrounds understand and interact with their environments, but also acknowledge the ways in which nature and culture are irreversibly intertwined. Advisors/Committee Members: Slovic, Scott (advisor), Keniston, Ann (committee member), Glotfelty, Cheryll (committee member), Sagebiel, John (committee member), Starrs, Paul (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: ecocriticism; ecopoetics; ecopoetry; poetics; poetry

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Nolan, S. (2015). Unnatural Ecopoetics: Unlikely Spaces in Contemporary Poetry. (Thesis). University of Nevada – Reno. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11714/2505

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Nolan, Sarah. “Unnatural Ecopoetics: Unlikely Spaces in Contemporary Poetry.” 2015. Thesis, University of Nevada – Reno. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11714/2505.

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

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Nolan, Sarah. “Unnatural Ecopoetics: Unlikely Spaces in Contemporary Poetry.” 2015. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Nolan S. Unnatural Ecopoetics: Unlikely Spaces in Contemporary Poetry. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Nevada – Reno; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11714/2505.

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

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Nolan S. Unnatural Ecopoetics: Unlikely Spaces in Contemporary Poetry. [Thesis]. University of Nevada – Reno; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11714/2505

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Florida Atlantic University

15. Cleaver, Nathan. A Materialist Critique of the Settler Occupation of Maine in Stephen King’s Pet Sematary.

Degree: MA, 2020, Florida Atlantic University

URL: http://fau.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fau:64675

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This project seeks to give Stephen King and Pet Sematary full consideration through applying a multi-faceted ecocritical approach to a novel so clearly founded on… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: King, Stephen, 1947-; Materialism; Ecocriticism

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Cleaver, N. (2020). A Materialist Critique of the Settler Occupation of Maine in Stephen King’s Pet Sematary. (Masters Thesis). Florida Atlantic University. Retrieved from http://fau.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fau:64675

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Cleaver, Nathan. “A Materialist Critique of the Settler Occupation of Maine in Stephen King’s Pet Sematary.” 2020. Masters Thesis, Florida Atlantic University. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://fau.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fau:64675.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Cleaver, Nathan. “A Materialist Critique of the Settler Occupation of Maine in Stephen King’s Pet Sematary.” 2020. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Cleaver N. A Materialist Critique of the Settler Occupation of Maine in Stephen King’s Pet Sematary. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Florida Atlantic University; 2020. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://fau.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fau:64675.

Council of Science Editors:

Cleaver N. A Materialist Critique of the Settler Occupation of Maine in Stephen King’s Pet Sematary. [Masters Thesis]. Florida Atlantic University; 2020. Available from: http://fau.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fau:64675

16. Anderson, Jill Elizabeth. The Gay of the Land: Queer Ecology and the Literature of the 1960s.

Degree: PhD, English, 2011, University of Mississippi

URL: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/36

► In this dissertation I argue not only that queer ecology is a legitimate and important next step for ecocritics and queer theorists but also that… (more)

▼ In this dissertation I argue not only that queer ecology is a legitimate and important next step for ecocritics and queer theorists but also that its literary application does a great amount of good in exploring and dismantling the natural/unnatural binary and exposing the ecological impact of the choices humans make everyday. I take as my method a combination of queer and environmental theory and literary criticism, as well as the foundational queer ecocritical works and include important historical and political perspectives influencing the emergence of the environmental and gay and lesbian movements. Through this dissertation, I legitimize more recent American literature, namely that of the 1960s. My reinvented canon includes works traditionally read as either environmental texts or queer texts so my task will be to claim each work for both the queer and environmental side, as well as a combination of both. Also, I argue that the importance of contemporary literature to queer ecology lies in its historical, social, and political situations. My first chapter, on Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion, the author’s second novel, explores the deep and abiding homosociality present in the story of the Stamper family, a logging clan in Oregon. I frame my argument about the homosocial (and homosexual) activities of communities of male loggers in the Northwest by addressing the primary homosocial relationships in the novel—those between Joe Ben and Hank Stamper (despite the fact they are both married) and Hank and his brother Leland. Kesey uses these relationships to dismantle and discount the presence of heterosexuality reproduction in the novel. While the physicality displayed by the men of the logging community is often read by critics as Kesey’s way of reinscribing a macho, pioneer mentality into an American literature populated by flaccid men, I read these moments erotically, underscoring their occurrence in the space of the forest as a necessary to the enactment of homosociality. In the second chapter, on Isherwood’s A Single Man, I show how George, the novel’s main character, acts a barometer for the ecological destruction enacted by the “breeders”—the families and their children—who surround him. While mourning the sudden death of his longtime partner, George critiques the functioning of heterosexual couples, their offspring, rampant growth and construction, and the general environmental destruction occurring in California at the time. While the novel is traditionally read as a text that empowers and normalizes a gay man in a long-term relationship, I argue that these critics are ignoring the environmental signs spread throughout the novel. Isherwood reverses the paradigm of queerness as unnatural by making reproduction unnatural, but instead of imposing new binaries in the narrative, Isherwood introduces touching and play as a way of dissolving boundaries. Jane Rule’s Desert of the Heart, which comprises my third chapter, centers on Evelyn, a woman who travels to Reno to seek a divorce from her husband. While… Advisors/Committee Members: Jaime Harker, Catriona Sandilands, Karen Raber.

Subjects/Keywords: 1960s; American Literature; Ecocriticism; Queer Ecocriticism; Queer Theory; American Literature

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Anderson, J. E. (2011). The Gay of the Land: Queer Ecology and the Literature of the 1960s. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Mississippi. Retrieved from https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/36

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Anderson, Jill Elizabeth. “The Gay of the Land: Queer Ecology and the Literature of the 1960s.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Mississippi. Accessed March 04, 2021. https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/36.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Anderson, Jill Elizabeth. “The Gay of the Land: Queer Ecology and the Literature of the 1960s.” 2011. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Anderson JE. The Gay of the Land: Queer Ecology and the Literature of the 1960s. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Mississippi; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/36.

Council of Science Editors:

Anderson JE. The Gay of the Land: Queer Ecology and the Literature of the 1960s. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Mississippi; 2011. Available from: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/36

17. Bladow, Kyle. Organizing Fictions: Material Ecocriticism, Environmental Justice, and American Indian Literature.

Degree: 2015, University of Nevada – Reno

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11714/2451

► This dissertation considers how environmental humanities, in dialogue with Native studies, can enhance scholarship concerned with environmental justice. Maintaining a critical interest in how materiality –… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: ecocriticism; environmentalism; environmental justice; material ecocriticism; Native studies; new materialism

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Bladow, K. (2015). Organizing Fictions: Material Ecocriticism, Environmental Justice, and American Indian Literature. (Thesis). University of Nevada – Reno. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11714/2451

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Bladow, Kyle. “Organizing Fictions: Material Ecocriticism, Environmental Justice, and American Indian Literature.” 2015. Thesis, University of Nevada – Reno. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11714/2451.

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

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Bladow, Kyle. “Organizing Fictions: Material Ecocriticism, Environmental Justice, and American Indian Literature.” 2015. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Bladow K. Organizing Fictions: Material Ecocriticism, Environmental Justice, and American Indian Literature. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Nevada – Reno; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11714/2451.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Bladow K. Organizing Fictions: Material Ecocriticism, Environmental Justice, and American Indian Literature. [Thesis]. University of Nevada – Reno; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11714/2451

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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

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
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 March 04, 2021. 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. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Lee DD. Natural Antagonisms: Violence and the Environment in Contemporary Latin American Narrative. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – Riverside; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. 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

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

Universiteit Utrecht

19. 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 March 04, 2021. 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. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Lattanzio G. Earthquake in Italy: How Natural Disaster Are Interpreted and Remembered. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Universiteit Utrecht; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. 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

University of Alberta

20. 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 March 04, 2021. 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. 04 Mar 2021.

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 2021 Mar 04]. 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

Vanderbilt University

21. Clark, Cameron Chase. The Environmental Politics of Grief in the Queer Anti-Pastoral.

Degree: MA, English, 2018, Vanderbilt University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/14111

► This thesis analyses the queer anti-pastoral as a cinematic sub-genre that disrupts pastoral conventions of nature as a site for harmonious patterns and generative transformations… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: pastoral; ecocriticism; negativity; affect; queer studies

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Clark, C. C. (2018). The Environmental Politics of Grief in the Queer Anti-Pastoral. (Thesis). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/14111

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Clark, Cameron Chase. “The Environmental Politics of Grief in the Queer Anti-Pastoral.” 2018. Thesis, Vanderbilt University. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1803/14111.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Clark, Cameron Chase. “The Environmental Politics of Grief in the Queer Anti-Pastoral.” 2018. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Clark CC. The Environmental Politics of Grief in the Queer Anti-Pastoral. [Internet] [Thesis]. Vanderbilt University; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/14111.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Clark CC. The Environmental Politics of Grief in the Queer Anti-Pastoral. [Thesis]. Vanderbilt University; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/14111

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

McMaster University

22. 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 March 04, 2021. 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. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Reszitnyk A. Uncovering the Anthropocenic Imaginary: The Metabolization of Disaster in Contemporary American Culture. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. McMaster University; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. 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

Penn State University

23. Sturges, Mark C. Dwelling on the Land: The Literature of Agriculture in the Early American Republic.

Degree: 2013, Penn State University

URL: https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/18704

► This project explores the relationship between literature, agriculture, and political discourse in the early American Republic. Focusing on four locations—Virginia, Connecticut, the Susquehanna Valley, and… (more)

▼ This project explores the relationship between literature, agriculture, and political discourse in the early American Republic. Focusing on four locations—Virginia, Connecticut, the Susquehanna Valley, and Cherokee Territory in Southern Appalachia—I survey a range of regional writing from the 1770s to the 1830s, and in the process I argue that a sense of place has the potential to shape an environmental ethic. Each chapter demonstrates (1) how farmers from these four regions responded to environmental problems like soil exhaustion and deforestation; (2) how writers from each region expressed a new ecological anxiety about the waste of natural resources; and (3) how these writers employed different modes of literary persuasion to promote a more permanent sense of place and a more sustainable system of land management. In other words, my study tells the story of an early American environmental movement. Typically, historians trace the roots of American conservation to a later date, often to the work of George Perkins Marsh or Gifford Pinchot, while literary critics privilege the writings of Henry David Thoreau or John Muir, but I find a similar environmental conscience in the early national era. Through new readings of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Timothy Dwight, David Humphreys, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, James Fenimore Cooper, William Bartram, and the Cherokee writer Elias Boudinot, my project recovers a lost ethic of agrarian land stewardship and thus proves that the canon of American nature writing has roots much deeper than the mid-nineteenth century. These “founding farmers” cultivated a vision of sustainable agriculture that later inspired the Populist Party of the late-nineteenth century; in the twentieth century, their ideas resurfaced among neo-agrarian writers who began to challenge industrial agriculture; and today, the same core values have shaped the contemporary local-foods movement. Their work provides not just an insight into the past, then, but a model for a more durable future. Advisors/Committee Members: Carla Mulford, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor, Robert Edwin Burkholder, Committee Member, Ian Stuart Marshall, Committee Member, Stephen Howard Browne, Committee Member.

Subjects/Keywords: American Literature; Agriculture; Environmental History; Ecocriticism

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Sturges, M. C. (2013). Dwelling on the Land: The Literature of Agriculture in the Early American Republic. (Thesis). Penn State University. Retrieved from https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/18704

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Sturges, Mark C. “Dwelling on the Land: The Literature of Agriculture in the Early American Republic.” 2013. Thesis, Penn State University. Accessed March 04, 2021. https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/18704.

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

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Sturges, Mark C. “Dwelling on the Land: The Literature of Agriculture in the Early American Republic.” 2013. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Sturges MC. Dwelling on the Land: The Literature of Agriculture in the Early American Republic. [Internet] [Thesis]. Penn State University; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/18704.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Sturges MC. Dwelling on the Land: The Literature of Agriculture in the Early American Republic. [Thesis]. Penn State University; 2013. Available from: https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/18704

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Leiden University

24. 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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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 March 04, 2021. 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. 04 Mar 2021.

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 2021 Mar 04]. 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

University of Tasmania

25. Condren, VM. Writing in “the midst of an unfolding disaster” : ecocritical perspectives on contemporary imaginative representations of Tasmanian wilderness.

Degree: 2017, University of Tasmania

URL: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/23779/1/Condren_whole_thesis.pdf

► This thesis argues that in the midst of an unfolding ecological disaster contemporary Australian authors and filmmakers are eschewing stereotypical Gothic and Romantic depictions of… (more)

▼ This thesis argues that in the midst of an unfolding ecological disaster contemporary Australian authors and filmmakers are eschewing stereotypical Gothic and Romantic depictions of Tasmania’s wilderness, and instead, are repositioning the nonhuman—the environment and wildlife—as more threatened than threatening. Emerging from colonial discourse Tasmania’s particular aesthetic heritage developed around a series of double visions involving the representation (or absence) of Aborigines in the landscape. Ian McLean captures this tension in the concept of the “fractured aesthetic,” which provides a point of departure for my analysis. I adapt and apply the fractured aesthetic through my ecocritical readings of eight contemporary fictional texts, all set in the Tasmanian wilderness. In contrast to McLean I focus on the representation (or absence) of anthropogenic degradation, resulting from exploitation of the island’s natural resources. Ultimately, representations of human/nonhuman kinship, rather than intra-human relationships of power direct my textual analysis. To this end, and drawing on the work of Lawrence Buell, Kate Rigby, Serenella Iovino, Greg Garrard, Richard Kerridge, Emily Potter, and other leading scholars of ecocriticism, I synthesise posthumanist ideas of shared materiality that engage recent theories of kinship, entanglement, nonhuman agency, affective narration and ideas of hope through environmental prophecy. Tasmania’s rich literary and environmental history is apparent in the body of work analysed. The selected texts are: The Tale of Ruby Rose (1987), a film directed by Roger Scholes; Death of a River Guide (1994) and The Sound of One Hand Clapping (1997), both written by Richard Flanagan; The Hunter (1999) novel by Julia Leigh and the film adaptation, The Hunter (2011), directed by Daniel Nettheim; The World Beneath (2009), by Cate Kennedy; The River Wife (2009), by Heather Rose and The Blue Cathedral (2011) by Cameron Hindrum. Ecocriticism of these novels and films remains scarce and I address this gap by exploring ways in which these texts represent nonhuman agency while also acknowledging the sense of shared materiality at the core of human/nonhuman kinship. After a contextual discussion of wilderness ideology generally, and Tasmanian wilderness representation particularly, I explore the lingering “Tasmanian Gothic” aesthetic which depicts the environment as threatening, as enemy and/or “monster.” The textual analysis demonstrates a shift in consciousness apparent in residual Romantic aesthetics, reworked to include ecocritical perspectives on the sublime and nonhuman agency. Genre is examined, through the power of fairy tale and magic realism, to represent unfolding environmental disasters, and also through satire, to represent the ethical ambiguities of “showcasing” wilderness. In addition, I explore how co-presence between human and nonhuman communities can become toxic co-dependence. The ethical implications of dystopian and/or more optimistic representations of extinction, loss of…

Subjects/Keywords: ecocriticism; wilderness representation; Tasmania; eco-gothic

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Condren, V. (2017). Writing in “the midst of an unfolding disaster” : ecocritical perspectives on contemporary imaginative representations of Tasmanian wilderness. (Thesis). University of Tasmania. Retrieved from https://eprints.utas.edu.au/23779/1/Condren_whole_thesis.pdf

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Condren, VM. “Writing in “the midst of an unfolding disaster” : ecocritical perspectives on contemporary imaginative representations of Tasmanian wilderness.” 2017. Thesis, University of Tasmania. Accessed March 04, 2021. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/23779/1/Condren_whole_thesis.pdf.

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

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Condren, VM. “Writing in “the midst of an unfolding disaster” : ecocritical perspectives on contemporary imaginative representations of Tasmanian wilderness.” 2017. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Condren V. Writing in “the midst of an unfolding disaster” : ecocritical perspectives on contemporary imaginative representations of Tasmanian wilderness. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Tasmania; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/23779/1/Condren_whole_thesis.pdf.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Condren V. Writing in “the midst of an unfolding disaster” : ecocritical perspectives on contemporary imaginative representations of Tasmanian wilderness. [Thesis]. University of Tasmania; 2017. Available from: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/23779/1/Condren_whole_thesis.pdf

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Vermont

26. Gray, Kelly. "Saved? What is saved?": The Potentiality of Bakhtinian Ecology in DeLillo's White Noise.

Degree: MA, English, 2020, University of Vermont

URL: https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/1226

► Within Cartesian dualism’s traditional nature/culture divide, nature today proves uncanny: both in the uncanny return of human impact through anthropogenic climate change and in… (more)

▼ Within Cartesian dualism’s traditional nature/culture divide, nature today proves uncanny: both in the uncanny return of human impact through anthropogenic climate change and in the uncanny recognition that that which was other was never really other at all. Contemporary ecocriticism, in theorizing the breakdown of this nature/culture divide, is thereby “post-naturalist.” Ecocritic Timothy Morton speaks toward this denaturalization in his work Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World. Drawing upon object-oriented ontology, Morton proposes hyperobjects, or objects massively distributed in time and space, as a means of reconceptualizing climate change as distinct from its manifestations in ecological crises. The imaginative challenge, Morton explains, is then in thinking connectivity, or, more specifically, in thinking ecology beyond nature and climate beyond weather. Similarly, environmentalist Amitav Ghosh argues in The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable that societal faith in the “regularity of bourgeois life” informs our uniformitarian expectations within the Anthropocene, or the geological era defined by the predominance of human impact upon our natural systems. The modern novel, Ghosh argues, relies on a scaffolding of probability and thereby conceals the improbable reality of anthropogenic climate change today. Following Don DeLillo’s White Noise (1985) as an exemplary case of ecological crisis and its concealment within the modern novel, my thesis project explores the relationship between the post-naturalist environmental imagination and the anthropocentric, or “human-centered,” belief in the ordinary’s bourgeois regularity. Tracing the anthropocentric subject’s interface with anthropogenic climate change as hyperobject within the novel, I then propose Bakhtinian ecology as a means of understanding ecological crisis within the ordinary as already ordinary. As a subversive thinker of both societal disruption and structural denaturalization, Mikhail Bakhtin’s importance to ecocriticism within the Anthropocene is self-evident. Further contextualized within White Noise, the Bakhtinian potentiality is multifold: in ecological dialogics’ epistemological renegotiation; in the carnivalesque denaturalization of societal structure in crisis; and, in grotesque realism’s uncanny connectivity. Respectively, these three Bakhtinian threads map onto the three sections of DeLillo’s novel: “Section I: Waves and Radiation”; “Section II: The Airborne Toxic Event”; and, “Section III: Dylarama.” Through this reading, I track how privileged protagonist Jack Gladney is forced to confront the uncanny connectivity of post-naturalist ecology; and, in his later attempt to distance himself from the crisis through racial othering, I argue that the ordinary’s reliance upon othering crises enables a concealment of environmental racism already present within the global ecological crisis. Advisors/Committee Members: Adrian J. Ivakhiv, Eric Lindstrom.

Subjects/Keywords: Bakhtin; DeLillo; ecocriticism; environmental humanities; postmodernism

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Gray, K. (2020). "Saved? What is saved?": The Potentiality of Bakhtinian Ecology in DeLillo's White Noise. (Thesis). University of Vermont. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/1226

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Gray, Kelly. “"Saved? What is saved?": The Potentiality of Bakhtinian Ecology in DeLillo's White Noise.” 2020. Thesis, University of Vermont. Accessed March 04, 2021. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/1226.

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

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Gray, Kelly. “"Saved? What is saved?": The Potentiality of Bakhtinian Ecology in DeLillo's White Noise.” 2020. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Gray K. "Saved? What is saved?": The Potentiality of Bakhtinian Ecology in DeLillo's White Noise. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Vermont; 2020. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/1226.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Gray K. "Saved? What is saved?": The Potentiality of Bakhtinian Ecology in DeLillo's White Noise. [Thesis]. University of Vermont; 2020. Available from: https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/1226

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Southern Mississippi

27. Philippoff, Ivan Anderson. Refocusing Ecocriticism: Going Deep with Walker Percy's The Moviegoer.

Degree: MA, English, 2014, University of Southern Mississippi

URL: https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/26

► The field of scholarship known as ecocriticism is growing rapidly. Members of the field must endeavor to define ecocritism’s goals and parameters to prevent… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Walker Percy; The Moviegoer; Ecocriticism; Deep Ecology

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Philippoff, I. A. (2014). Refocusing Ecocriticism: Going Deep with Walker Percy's The Moviegoer. (Masters Thesis). University of Southern Mississippi. Retrieved from https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/26

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Philippoff, Ivan Anderson. “Refocusing Ecocriticism: Going Deep with Walker Percy's The Moviegoer.” 2014. Masters Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi. Accessed March 04, 2021. https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/26.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Philippoff, Ivan Anderson. “Refocusing Ecocriticism: Going Deep with Walker Percy's The Moviegoer.” 2014. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Philippoff IA. Refocusing Ecocriticism: Going Deep with Walker Percy's The Moviegoer. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Southern Mississippi; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/26.

Council of Science Editors:

Philippoff IA. Refocusing Ecocriticism: Going Deep with Walker Percy's The Moviegoer. [Masters Thesis]. University of Southern Mississippi; 2014. Available from: https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/26

University of Ottawa

28. Tania, Aguila-Way. Fraught Epistemologies: Bioscience, Community, and Environment in Diasporic Canadian Literature .

Degree: 2015, University of Ottawa

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31901

► This dissertation examines the intersection between diasporic subjectivities and scientific knowledge production in the works of Shani Mootoo, Madeleine Thien, Larissa Lai, and Rita Wong.… (more)

▼ This dissertation examines the intersection between diasporic subjectivities and scientific knowledge production in the works of Shani Mootoo, Madeleine Thien, Larissa Lai, and Rita Wong. I read these authors as participating in a burgeoning scene of diasporic Canadian writing that draws on concepts and tropes derived from the life sciences to think through a broad constellation of issues relating to contemporary diasporic experience, from the role of biogenetic discourses in the diasporic search for ancestry, to the embodied dimensions of diasporic memory and trauma, to the role of diaspora communities in the decolonial struggle against the emergent forms of “biopower” that contemporary bioscience has enabled. As the first study to address this burgeoning topic in diasporic Canadian literature, this dissertation asks: Why are diasporic Canadian authors taking up bioscience as a key topos for the exploration of contemporary diasporic experiences? How is this engagement with the life sciences re-shaping current conversations about diasporic kinship, memory, and embodiment, and about the role of diasporic communities in contemporary struggles for environmental justice? Complicating frameworks that understand bioscience only as an instrument of what Foucault calls “biopower,” I argue that the works of Mootoo, Thien, Lai and Wong prompt us to rethink the ways in which queer, feminist, anti-racist, and environmental struggles might constructively interface with the life sciences to challenge emergent forms of biological essentialism and biopolitical control. I demonstrate that, by using bioscientific tropes to highlight the complex and open-ended life processes that shape the human body and the wider environment, these authors construct epistemologies that attend to the global networks of biopower through which neoimperialism operates while also acknowledging the interconnected ways in which living organisms and material substances destabilize these global flows. I argue that, in so doing, these authors position diasporic knowledge production as a crucial locus for the rethinking of relations between politics and ecology, and between humanist and scientific ways of knowing, that science studies scholars like Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour and decolonial critics like Boaventura de Sousa Santos have identified as a central to contemporary struggles for environmental justice. Each chapter explores the work of one diasporic Canadian author in relation to a single, historically specific site of scientific knowledge production. Chapter one examines how Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night combines notions of gothic excess with a materialist emphasis on the material agencies that inhere through bodies and environments in order to disrupt the gendered and racial discourses propagated by imperial botany. Chapter two explores how Thien’s novels Certainty and Dogs at the Perimeter draw on current debates around the neurobiology of memory and emotion to grapple, on one hand, with the fragmentation induced through diasporic trauma and, on…

Subjects/Keywords: Diasporic Canadian Literature; Ecocriticism; Science Studies

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Tania, A. (2015). Fraught Epistemologies: Bioscience, Community, and Environment in Diasporic Canadian Literature . (Thesis). University of Ottawa. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31901

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Tania, Aguila-Way. “Fraught Epistemologies: Bioscience, Community, and Environment in Diasporic Canadian Literature .” 2015. Thesis, University of Ottawa. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31901.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Tania, Aguila-Way. “Fraught Epistemologies: Bioscience, Community, and Environment in Diasporic Canadian Literature .” 2015. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Tania A. Fraught Epistemologies: Bioscience, Community, and Environment in Diasporic Canadian Literature . [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Ottawa; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31901.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Tania A. Fraught Epistemologies: Bioscience, Community, and Environment in Diasporic Canadian Literature . [Thesis]. University of Ottawa; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31901

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Boston University

29. 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 March 04, 2021. 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. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

Neilsen K. Toxic ecologies: contamination and transgression in Victorian fiction, 1851-1900. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Boston University; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. 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

University of Manitoba

30. McIntyre, Caitlin Ailish. Queer animals and agriculture in James Joyce's A portrait of the artist as a young man.

Degree: English, Film, and Theatre, 2014, University of Manitoba

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/24011

► This thesis will read James Joyce's novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man as a text that is fundamentally concerned with ecological… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Modernism; Agriculture; James Joyce; Ecocriticism; Ireland; Postcolonialism

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APA (6^th Edition):

McIntyre, C. A. (2014). Queer animals and agriculture in James Joyce's A portrait of the artist as a young man. (Masters Thesis). University of Manitoba. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1993/24011

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

McIntyre, Caitlin Ailish. “Queer animals and agriculture in James Joyce's A portrait of the artist as a young man.” 2014. Masters Thesis, University of Manitoba. Accessed March 04, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/24011.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

McIntyre, Caitlin Ailish. “Queer animals and agriculture in James Joyce's A portrait of the artist as a young man.” 2014. Web. 04 Mar 2021.

Vancouver:

McIntyre CA. Queer animals and agriculture in James Joyce's A portrait of the artist as a young man. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Manitoba; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 04]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/24011.

Council of Science Editors:

McIntyre CA. Queer animals and agriculture in James Joyce's A portrait of the artist as a young man. [Masters Thesis]. University of Manitoba; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/24011

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