Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology

Contents
0. Introduction
Part I. Ecocritical Theories of Culture and Literature
	1. The Lightest Burden: The Aesthetic Abductions of Biosemiotics
	2. Earth’s Poesy: Romantic Poetics, Natural Philosophy, and Biosemiotics
	3. Merleau-Ponty and the Eco-Literary Imaginary
	4. Ecology and Immanence
	5. Paradox as Bedrock: Social Systems Theory and the Ungrounding of Literary Environmentalism in Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire
	6. Aesthetics of Nature – A Philosophical Perspective
	7. Cultural Ecology of Literature – Literature as Cultural Ecology
Part II. Issues and Directions of Contemporary Ecocriticism
	8. Neither the ‘Simple Backward Look’ nor the ‘Simple Progressive Thrust’: Ecocriticism and the Politics of Prosperity
	9. Political Ecology: Nature, Democracy, and American Literary Culture
	10. Ecocriticism and Postcolonial Studies
	11. Ecofeminisms, the Toxic Body, and Linda Hogan’s Power
	12. Ecocriticism, Place Studies, and Colm Tóibín’s “A Long Winter”: A Biocultural Perspective
	13. Animal Studies: Kafka’s Animal Stories
	14. From Material to Posthuman Ecocriticism: Hybridity, Stories, Natures
	15. Conciliation and Consilience: Climate Change in Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behaviour
Part III. Between the Local and the Global: Cultural Diversity vs. Eco-Cosmopolitanism
	16. Narrative Scholarship as an American Contribution to Global Ecocriticism
	17. Ecology and Life Writing in Transnational and Transcultural Perspective
	18. From Thomas Mann to Porto Marghera: Material Ecocriticism, Literary Interpretation, and Death in Venice
	19. Mediterranean Ecocriticism: The Sea in the Middle
	20. Eco- and Geo- Approaches in French and Francophone Literary Studies
	21. Latin American Environmental Discourses, Indigenous Ecological Consciousness and the Problem of ‘Authentic’ Native Identities
	22. Women Writing Nature in the Global South: New Forest Texts from Fractured Indian Forests
	23. Ecocultures and the African Literary Tradition
	24. Ecosophy and Ecoaesthetics: A Chinese Perspective
	25. World Risk Society and Ecoglobalism: Risk, Literature, and the Anthropocene
Part IV. Ecologies of Literary Communication Sieglinde Grimm and Berbeli Wanning
	26. Cultural Ecology and the Teaching of Literature
	27. Environmental Narrative, Embodiment, and Emotion
	28. Beyond the Wasteland: An Ecocritical Reading of Modernist Trauma Literature
	29. Literary Place and Cultural Memory
	30. The Ecology of Literary Chronotopes
	31. Cultural Ecology and Literary Translation
Part V. Genre and Media Ecologies
	32. PANORAMA: Three Ecocinematic Territories
	33. Ecomusicology from Poetic to Practical
	34. Within and Beyond the Art World: Environmentalist Criticism of Visual Art
Index of Subjects
Index of Names
List of Contributors