Teaching Ecocriticism and Green Cultural Studies

by Garrard, Greg

• ISBN13: 9780230235038
• ISBN10: 0230235034
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Greg Garrard is National Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Bath Spa University, UK, where he teaches poetry, contemporary literature, ecocriticism and animal studies. He is Chair of ASLE-UKI and the author of Ecocriticism (2004), as well as numerous essays on literature and the environment and ecocritical pedagogy.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. viii
Chronology	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Ecocriticism and the Mission of 'English'	p. 11
Scoping Scales
Walking in the Weathered World	p. 27
Encountering Social-Constructivist Rhetoric: Teaching an Environmental Writing and Literature Course	p. 37
Teaching Romantic Ecology in Northern Canada	p. 49
Teaching the Postcolonial/Ecocritical Dialogue	p. 60
Interdisciplinary Encounters
Literature and Ecology	p. 75
Developing a Sense of Planet: Ecocriticism and Globalisation	p. 90
The Return of the Animal: Presenting and Representing Non-Human Beings Response-ably in the (Post-) Humanities Classroom	p. 104
Reading and Writing Climate Change	p. 117
Green Cultural Studies
Teaching Green Cultural Studies and New Media	p. 133
Teaching Ecocriticism and Cinema	p. 144
Practising Deconstruction in the Age of Ecological Emergency	p. 156
Further Reading	p. 167
Index	p. 171
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