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Issue 7.3 - Special Issue "The Global Contemporary and the Ecological" Previous Issues

Sham(an) Songbird

Rhys Trimble July 1, 2019 No Comments birdsong ecocriticism ecology ecopoetics grammar nature poem poet shaman songbird spoken word text art word art

Shamanic nature-oriented poetry from poet Rhys Trimble.

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Issue 6.2 Previous Issues

With Love from Iceland

Andy Hageman May 31, 2017 No Comments Andri Snær Magnason banking crash 2008 capitalism capitalist realism crisis crunch lit ecology financial crash Iceland Land of Love and Ruins LoveStar mythology nature Oddný Eir Reykjavik tourism

Iceland is, to put it weirdly, so hot right now. Iceland is circulating through the social imaginary in a number of big-budget cinematic vehicles: Dr. Mann’s uninhabitable planet in Interstellar…

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Issue 3.1 - Special Issue "Critical Environments" Previous Issues

Editorial: Critical Environments

Deborah Lilley September 24, 2014 1 Comment Barbara Kingsolver climate change ecocatastrophe ecocriticism ecology environmental change Flight Behaviour Jeanette Winterson landscape Liz Jensen Maggie Gee nature planet Timothy Clark tourism Ursula Heise

In Barbara Kingsolver’s 2012 novel Flight Behaviour, environmental crisis arrives in a remote Tennessee town in the form of the migrating Monarch butterfly…

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Issue 3.1 - Special Issue "Critical Environments" Previous Issues

Re-Approaching Urban Nature

Astrid Bracke September 24, 2014 6 Comments city landscape ecocriticism Edgelands humanized nature Kathleen Jamie nature New Nature Writing Robert Macfarlane Romanticism Tim Dee urban environment urban nature urban studies

‘What exactly was new about the new nature writing in Granta’s 2008 collection titled The New Nature Writing? One answer would be “not much”’ (Stenning and Gifford, 1)…

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