Teaching Ecocriticism and Green Cultural Studies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Greg Garrard

      Pages 1-10

3. Ecocriticism and the Mission of ‘English’

   1. Ecocriticism and the Mission of ‘English’

      • Richard Kerridge

      Pages 11-23

4. Scoping Scales

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Walking in the Weathered World

      • Adrienne Cassel

      Pages 27-36

   3. Encountering Social-Constructivist Rhetoric: Teaching an Environmental Writing and Literature Course

      • Elizabeth Giddens

      Pages 37-48

   4. Teaching Romantic Ecology in Northern Canada

      • Kevin Hutchings

      Pages 49-59

   5. Teaching the Postcolonial/Ecocritical Dialogue

      • Erin James

      Pages 60-71

5. Interdisciplinary Encounters

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73

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   2. Literature and Ecology

      • Louise Westling

      Pages 75-89

   3. Developing a Sense of Planet: Ecocriticism and Globalisation

      • Ursula K. Heise

      Pages 90-103

   4. The Return of the Animal: Presenting and Representing Non-Human Beings Response-ably in the (Post-)Humanities Classroom

      • Bart H. Welling, Scottie Kapel

      Pages 104-116

   5. Reading and Writing Climate Change

      • Hayden Gabriel, Greg Garrard

      Pages 117-129

6. Green Cultural Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131

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   2. Teaching Green Cultural Studies and New Media

      • Anthony Lioi

      Pages 133-143

   3. Teaching Ecocriticism and Cinema

      • Adrian Ivakhiv

      Pages 144-155

   4. Practising Deconstruction in the Age of Ecological Emergency

      • Timothy Morton

      Pages 156-166

7. Back Matter

   Pages 167-174

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Ecocriticism is one of the most vibrant fields of cultural study today, and environmental issues are controversial and topical. This volume captures the excitement of green reading, reflects on its relationship to the modern academy, and provides practical guidance for dealing with global scale, interdisciplinarity, apathy and scepticism.

• Cultural Studies
• culture
• Ecocriticism
• interdisciplinarity
• new media
• rhetoric
• Romanticism

• Bath Spa University, UK

  Greg Garrard

ADRIENNE CASSEL Associate Professor of English, Sinclair Community College, USA HAYDEN GABRIEL Programme Leader for Creative Writing, University College Plymouth, UK ELIZABETH GIDDENS Associate Professor of English, Kennesaw State University in Georgia, USA URSULA K. HEISE Professor of English, Director of the Program in Modern Thought & Literature, Stanford University, USA KEVIN HUTCHINGS Canada Research Chair in Literature, Culture, and Environmental Studies, University of Northern British Columbia, USA ADRIAN IVAKHIV Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Vermont, USA ERIN JAMES Assistant Professor of English, University of Nevada, Reno, USA RICHARD KERRIDGE Research Coordinator for the Humanities Faculty, Bath Spa University, UK ANTHONY LIOI Assistant Professor of Liberal Arts and English, Juilliard School, New York City, USA TIMOTHY MORTON Professor of English (Literature and the Environment), University of California, Davis, USA BART H. WELLING Associate Professor of English and Environmental Center Fellow, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, USA LOUISE WESTLING Professor of English and Environmental Studies, University of Oregon, USA

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