ecocriticism

plural ecocriticisms

1. uncountableusuallyThe interdisciplinary study of literature and ecology.

   A chapter on North Woods writers is an ideal project in which to engage the fundamental issues of ecocriticism.

   1998, Patrick D Murphy, Terry Gifford, Katsunori Yamazato, Literature of nature: an international sourcebook

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   The emergence of ecocriticism as a distinct field of inquiry parallels the reemergence of literary critic as cultural activist […]

   2003, Roger Thompson, J Scott Bryson, Twentieth-century American nature writers: prose

   In this light, the current volume is a work of ecocriticism, although not all the contributors would wish to define themselves first and foremost as ecocritics.

   2007, Fiona Becket, Terry Gifford, Culture, creativity and environment: new environmentalist criticism

   Serpil Opperman writes that ecocriticism proposes “that we can read the world as matter endowed with stories.”

   2020, Bridgitte Barclay, “My Heart Slowly Cracks”, in Jonathan Elmore, editor, Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN