Paradigm Shifts: "The Ecological Turn in Literary Studies": Prof. Kate Rigby

FRIAS Lunch Lecture "Paradigm Shifts in Science", December 3, 2015
Since the early 1990s, a major paradigm shift has been underway in literary studies, which commonly goes by the name of “ecocriticism”. In addition to the new questions it has brought to the field of literary studies, ecocriticism has also significantly reshaped its methodology. Whereas it has been common for literary scholars to draw upon other humanities or social science disciplines to inform their research, ecocritics turn also to the biological sciences, geology, physics, meteorology, science studies, and biosemiotics, repositioning literary history and hermeneutics within a more-than-human frame of reference. In this way, ecocriticism has contributed to the emergence of the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of the “environmental humanities”. Embracing also such game-changing sub-disciplines as ecophilosophy, ecolinguistics, environmental history, multi-species ethnography, and eco-religious studies, the environmental humanities brings fundamental questions of value and meaning, responsibility and rights, care and cruelty, compassion and justice to the major socio-ecological challenges facing the world today.

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This was informative, well-structured and comprehensive at the same time. Thank you very much for this wonderful talk on Ecocriticism. ^_^

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Glad you enjoyed it!

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Very helpful tips. I loved the references.

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Amazing and helpful. Thanks a lot.

[@ayushikeshari8817]

Can I get ecological vision of Raymond Williams

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What amazing references. It is trully beyond what literature study genres have been discussing until the global warming starts emerging. Cli-Fi.. Haha, a new genre. Green romanticsm, wow.. she even put the pizzle by 0resenting the hiatorical of literary works that concern with ecocriticism. Dear learners, don't expect the way how to brought ecocriticsm in literature analysis/criticam. This video gives you brief-to-the-point reference of Green Study/Ecocriticsm and of course, wider perspective.