Garrard Greg - Ecocriticism

Ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine and portray the relationship between humans and the environment in all areas of cultural production, from Wordsworth and Thoreau through to Google Earth, J.M. Coetzee and Werner Herzogs Grizzly Man.

Greg Garrards animated and accessible volume traces the development of the movement and explores its key concepts, including:

• pollution
• wilderness
• apocalypse
• dwelling
• animals
• earth.

Featuring a newly rewritten chapter on animal studies, and considering queer and postcolonial ecocriticism and the impact of globalisation, this fully updated second edition also presents a glossary of terms and suggestions for further reading in print and online. Concise, clear, and authoritative, Ecocriticism offers the ideal introduction to this crucial subject for students of literary and cultural studies.

Greg Garrard is a senior lecturer in English Literature at Bath Spa University, UK.

Series Editor: John Drakakis, University of Stirling

The New Critical Idiom is an invaluable series of introductory guides to today's critical terminology. Each book:

• provides a handy, explanatory guide to the use (and abuse) of the term;
• offers an original and distinctive overview by a leading literary and cultural critic;
• relates the term to the larger field of cultural representation.

With a strong emphasis on clarity, lively debate and the widest possible breadth of examples, The New Critical Idiom is an indispensable approach to key topics in literary studies.

Also available in this series:

The Author by Andrew Bennett

Autobiography by Linda Anderson

Adaptation and Appropriation by Julie Sanders

Allegory by Jeremy Tambling

Class by Gary Day

Colonialism/Postcolonialism - second

edition by Ania Loomba

Comedy by Andrew Stott

Crime Fiction by John Scaggs

Culture/Metaculture by Francis Mulhern

Difference by Mark Currie

Discourse by Sara Mills

Drama/Theatre/Performance by Simon

Shepherd and Mick Wallis

Dramatic Monologue by Glennis Byron

Elegy by David Kennedy

Genders by David Glover and Cora

Kaplan

Genre by John Frow

Gothic by Fred Botting

The Historical Novel by Jerome de Groot

Historicism by Paul Hamilton

Humanism by Tony Davies

Ideology by David Hawkes

Interdisciplinarity by Joe Moran

Intertextuality by Graham Allen

Irony by Claire Colebrook

Literature by Peter Widdowson

Lyric by Scott Brewster

Magic(al) Realism by Maggie Ann Bowers

Memory by Anne Whitehead

Metaphor by David Punter

Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form by Philip Hobsbaum

Mimesis by Matthew Potolsky

Modernism by Peter Childs

Myth by Laurence Coupe

Narrative by Paul Cobley

Parody by Simon Dentith

Pastoral by Terry Gifford

Performativity by James Loxley

The Postmodern by Simon Malpas

Realism by Pam Morris

Rhetoric by Jennifer Richards

Romance by Barbara Fuchs

Romanticism by Aidan Day

Science Fiction by Adam Roberts

Sexuality by Joseph Bristow

Stylistics by Richard Bradford

Subjectivity by Donald E. Hall

The Sublime by Philip Shaw

The Unconscious by Antony Easthope

Greg Garrard

Second edition

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The New Critical Idiom is a series of introductory books which seeks to extend the lexicon of literary terms, in order to address the radical changes which have taken place in the study of literature during the last decades of the twentieth century. The aim is to provide clear, well-illustrated accounts of the full range of terminology currently in use, and to evolve histories of its changing usage.

The current state of the discipline of literary studies is one where there is considerable debate concerning basic questions of terminology. This involves, among other things, the boundaries which distinguish the literary from the non-literary; the position of literature within the larger sphere of culture; the relationship between literatures of different cultures; and questions concerning the relation of literary to other cultural forms within the context of interdisciplinary studies.

It is clear that the field of literary criticism and theory is a dynamic and heterogeneous one. The present need is for individual volumes on terms which combine clarity of exposition with an adventurousness of perspective and a breadth of application. Each volume will contain as part of its apparatus some indication of the direction in which the definition of particular terms is likely to move, as well as expanding the disciplinary boundaries within which some of these terms have been traditionally contained. This will involve some re-situation of terms within the larger field of cultural representation, and will introduce examples from the area of film and the modern media in addition to examples from a variety of literary texts.

While it is usual in academic writing to refer to Native Americans rather than American Indians, I have used both terms interchangeably in this book. Neither is wholly satisfactory, and my understanding is that many Native Americans prefer the traditional term.

In the first edition I drew a contrast between the early twentieth-century pastoral ecology of ideal climax ecosystems and the supposed balance of undisturbed nature and more recent postmodern ecology that stresses complexity and continual change. Since, as David Ingram pointed out, both ecologies were quantitative sciences and neither had much in common with postmodernism, I have substituted the more precise term postequilibrium for postmodern throughout.