Work Cited:
Sven Birkerts. "Only God Can Make a Tree: The Joys and Sorrows of Ecocriticism."
From The Boston Book Review Nov./Dec. 1996
James Hopkin. “In the green team: James Hopkin looks at how eco-critics are sending ripples through literature” Guardian Saturday May 12, 2001 http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4185023,00.html
Simon C. Estok. "Letter." Forum on Literatures of the Environment.
PMLA 114.5 (Oct. 1999): 1095-1096.
Steve Grant . “Birds and Bees 101: Finding Nature in Literature” (http://www.asle.umn.edu/archive/intro/courant.html). From The Hartford Courant 16 Dec. 1998.
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Bibliography:
A. Introductory Essays:
A Report Card on Ecocriticism
From AUMLA 96 (Nov. 2001)
In the Green Team: James Hopkin Looks at How Eco-critics are Sending Ripples through Literature
From The Guardian 12 May 2001
Nature 101: Gazing at crows, pondering Thoreau, counting the needles of pines--it's all part of an academic adventure known as environmental studies
From Sierra Nov./Dec. 2000
Forum on Literatures of the Environment
From PMLA 114.5 (Oct. 1999)
Birds and Bees 101: Finding Nature in Literature
From The Hartford Courant 16 Dec. 1998
Wild Things: Forget deconstruction--today's hippest literary critics have gone green
From Utne Reader Nov.-Dec. 1997
Science and Ecocriticism
From The American Book Review July-August 1997
Swampy's Smart Set
From The Times Higher Education Supplement 4 July 1997
Only God Can Make a Tree: The Joys and Sorrows of Ecocriticism
From The Boston Book Review Nov./Dec. 1996
Scholars Embark on Study of Literature About the Environment
From The Chronicle of Higher Education 9 August 1996
The Greening of the Humanities (excerpt)
From The New York Times Magazine 29 October 1995
Narrative Scholarship: Storytelling in Ecocriticism
Nineteen Position Papers from the 1995 Western Literature Association Meeting
Defining Ecocritical Theory and Practice http://www.asle.umn.edu/conf/other_conf/wla/1994/1994.html
Sixteen Position Papers from the 1994 Western Literature Association Meeting
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B. Books & Special Issues:
Jonathan Bate. Romantic Ecology. Wordsworth and the environmental tradition.
London ; New York: Routledge, 1991. (FJ-- 821.8Ro W891Ba)
Bate draws upon Wordsworth as an exemplar of ecocritical thinking, for Wordsworth did not view nature in Enlightenment terms - as that which must be tamed, ordered, and utilised - but as an area to be inhabited and reflected upon. By so doing, he hoped human beings might "see into the life of things", and reveal their place in a system of delicate relations between the human and the non-human worlds.
---. The Song of the Earth ( Picador, £6.99).
for "an imaginative reunification of mind and nature". He argues that if ecology is the "language about our earthly dwelling place"(an idea he has taken from Heidegger), a place from which we have become divorced, then literature can return us to it. "There is a need to recover a more visceral response to what literature can do," he explains.
Bate begins with Wordsworth on the alienation of city-dwelling and the loss of place due to industrial progress, and looks at Ruskin's call for an organic way of living, before moving on to the Marxist intellectuals, Raymond Williams and EP Thompson.
---, ed. Green Romanticism, special issue of Studies in romanticism 35. 3 (Fall, 1996).
· Jonathan Bate, Living with the Weather
· Greg Garrard, Radical Pastoral?
· Mark Lussier, Blake's Deep Ecology
· James C. McKusick, Coleridge and the Economy of Nature
· Timothy Morton, Shelley's Green Desert
· Ralph Pite, How Green Were the Romantics?
Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm, eds. Ecocriticism Reader.
Susan Griffin. The Eros of Everyday Life (Doubleday, 1995).
-- "the alienation of human society from nature has led to many different kinds of destruction, not the least of which has been the fragmentation of consciousness."
Stephen Kellert. The Value of Life. (Island Press, 1997)
-- nature's aesthetic and symbolic values
Bonnie Marranca. Ecologies of Theater (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).
Michael McDowell. "The Bakhtinian Road to Ecological Insight."
Lynn White's landmark 1962 essay, "The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis."
Frank Stewart. A Natural History of Nature Writing (Island Press, 1995).
Jack Turner. The Abstract Wild (University of Arizona Press, 1996)
-- dissects the abstractions that divorce us from the natural world.
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