Contemporary Ecocritical Methods - (Ecocritical Theory and Practice) by Camilla Brudin Borg & Douglas A Vakoch & Rikard Wingård & Jørgen Bruhn

About the Book

Ecocriticism has grown into one of the most innovative and urgent fields of the humanities, and many useful ecocritical methodological approaches for addressing our environmental crisis have been developed, discussed, and reconsidered. Contemporary Methods in Ecocriticism exem...

Book Synopsis

Ecocriticism has grown into one of the most innovative and urgent fields of the humanities, and many useful ecocritical approaches for addressing our environmental crisis have been developed, discussed, and reconsidered during the last decade.

From various perspectives, ecocriticism both adopts and criticizes traditional analytical and theoretical models, resulting in an impressive methodological diversity, pushing the boundaries of the humanities. This open access book, Contemporary Ecocritical Methods, exemplifies this methodological variety and serves as a practical entry into the field. Fourteen chapters, written by scholars from various ecocritical sub-fields of environmental humanities, introduce a rich set of perspectives and their analytical tools.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.

Review Quotes

"Owing to its breadth and internal coherence, the volume operates as an emerging ecosystem within the field, showcasing its high-quality methods ... Its strength lies in the fact that the chapters are conceived as a 'toolbox' for conducting ecocritical analysis, rather than merely arguing for the relevance of such analyses or for the importance of the field itself." --KULT_online

About the Author

Camilla Brudin Borg is senior lecturer of comparative literature at the University of Gothenburg.

Rikard Wingård is senior lecturer of comparative literature at the University of Gothenburg.

Jørgen Bruhn is professor of comparative literature at Linnaeus University, Sweden and director of Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies.