Pub Date : 2022-10-22DOI: 10.1080/14688417.2022.2138966
Teresa Fitzpatrick
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14688417.2023.2214154
Giulia Pacini
ABSTRACT This essay examines the bucolic poetry of the French agronomist Jean-Baptiste Rougier de la Bergerie (1762–1836). It presents his views on the value of scientific poetry; situates his writing within the contemporary French discourse on deforestation and climate instability; and shows how his Églogues bucoliques clamoured for action to protect the nation’s woods and thereby regulate meteorological conditions across the land. In this regard Rougier criticised the ignorance and excessive influence of the French Academies in Paris and granted an important voice to rural experiences and perspectives. He therefore decentred traditional sites of authority and defended the value of a horizontal information network offering more empirical and local forms of knowledge.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14688417.2023.2213700
Isabel Galleymore
ABSTRACT Cuteness is primarily associated with a trivial superficiality, so it is perhaps no surprise to find it a relatively ignored aesthetic within environmental thought, which tends to favour seriousness and complexity. The emerging field of cute studies has, however, begun to trouble such associations. This article offers an environmental lens on cute studies by taking, as its case study, the cutified, feminised animal and developing Sianne Ngai’s discourse on the power dynamics inherent to cuteness. Examining vivid examples from Hello Kitty to D. H. Lawrence’s poems, I argue that cuteness objectifies and ‘others’ female and animal identities, often to violent effect. Given the cutified, feminised animal’s supposed passivity, what resistance can be expected? Analysing Aase Berg’s bloodthirsty guinea-pig poems, I argue that horror tropes undertaken in a camp, comedic style serve to expose the violence within cuteness, generating an important opportunity for an environmental reframing of the cute.
可爱主要与琐碎的肤浅联系在一起，所以在环境思想中，它是一种相对被忽视的美学，往往倾向于严肃和复杂，这也许并不奇怪。然而，新兴的可爱研究领域已经开始给这种联系带来麻烦。这篇文章提供了一个关于可爱研究的环境视角，作为它的案例研究，被驯化的，雌性化的动物，并发展了Sianne Ngai关于可爱固有的权力动力学的论述。从凯蒂猫(Hello Kitty)到d·h·劳伦斯(D. H. Lawrence)的诗歌，我研究了生动的例子，认为可爱将女性和动物的身份和“他人”物化，往往会产生暴力效果。考虑到雌性化的动物被认为是被动的，还能有什么阻力呢?通过分析Aase Berg的那些嗜血的豚鼠诗，我认为在一个营地中进行的恐怖比喻，喜剧风格有助于揭露可爱中的暴力，为可爱的环境重构创造了一个重要的机会。
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14688417.2023.2214142
Erin M. Fehskens
ABSTRACT Theorisations of climate change literature rethink realism, the status of human/nonhuman relations and the agency of the landscape. This paper uses Sarah Nuttall’s concept of the pluvial mode to examine how these theoretical prescriptions function in contemporary novels to create conditions of refuge in spaces that have become largely uninhabitable for the majority of a population through climate change. In Jane Rawson’s A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists (2013) and Chang-Rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea (2014) rainstorms instigate conditions hospitable to refuge and immerse the text in a drawn-out connection between that concept and watery images, beings and spaces. The novels locate refuge in the realm of affect or condition, and in so doing, create a disruptive element of possibility in otherwise apocalyptic narratives in which there seems to be no escape from precarity and uncertainty.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14688417.2023.2199017
Keith Moser
ABSTRACT Delving into biosemiotic and endosemiotic theory, this transdisciplinary analysis of Le Clézio’s fiction illustrates how the Franco-Mauritian author undermines the dichotomous thinking that pits the human semiotic agent against soulless automata whose sounds and gestures are nothing but the insignificant product of an internal machinery. Le Clézio takes aim at much of Western philosophy and traditional linguistic theory, which tend to undermine the importance of other-than-human semiosis entirely, in his call for a re-evaluation of the complexity of the signs that are endlessly being conceived, transmitted and interpreted by and between various species. Similar to the founding father of Biosemiotics Jakob von Uexküll, Le Clézio implores us to reinvigorate our dulled senses in the postmodern world in order to (re-) establish a sensorial connection to the ‘score of nature’, thereby enabling us to catch a glimpse of the billions of other biosemiosic threads in the web of life.
通过对生物符号学和内符号学理论的深入研究，本文对这位法国-毛里求斯裔作家的小说进行了跨学科的分析，阐释了他是如何打破人类符号学主体与没有灵魂的自动机之间的二分法思维的，后者的声音和手势只不过是内部机器的微不足道的产物。Le clacimzio将矛头指向了西方哲学和传统语言学理论，这些理论倾向于完全破坏非人类符号学的重要性，他呼吁重新评估符号的复杂性，这些符号不断地被不同物种所构思、传播和解释。与生物符号学之父Jakob von uexk ll类似，Le clsamzio恳求我们在后现代世界中重新激活我们迟钝的感官，以便(重新)建立与“自然分数”的感官联系，从而使我们能够瞥见生命之网中数十亿其他生物符号学线索。
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14688417.2023.2202190
M. Pérez-Gil
ABSTRACT At first sight, Mills & Boon romances may seem to bear little or no relation to environmentalism; however, critical comments about the negative impact of sun, sea and sand tourism are not uncommon in the pages of these novels. The tourism boom of the 1960s and 1970s led to increasing concern about its effects on the environment. Using a historical approach, I focus on several romance novels set in southern Europe, the area attracting the highest rate of visitors at that time and visibly suffering the consequences of unbridled construction. Some of the tools of econarratology and cognitive ecocriticism serve to provide further insights into the novels.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14688417.2023.2217195
A. Burton
ABSTRACT This ascending line of enquiry will pay close attention to how, through their nineteenth-century Lakeland writings, William Wordsworth and Harriet Martineau attached meaning to the continued presence and perceived role of trees in the landscapes of the English Lake District. The authors wrote about the region when increased numbers of landowners were planting trees for aesthetic, agricultural, and financial purposes on their land, ranging from the villa garden to the fell-side plantation. In this context, this analysis will consider the authors’ perceptions of historical upland tree cover, their aesthetic evaluation of particular planted and self-seeded spaces, and how individual specimens are sites of natural and cultural convergence shaped by the ‘wildness’ of the fells. Focusing on literary Lakeland trees – as discussed by Wordsworth, Martineau, and their circle – this article illustrates an ecological and arbori-cultural understanding of the environment that shifts, in accordance with elevation, from the valley floor up to the mountain top.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/14688417.2023.2202193
Catherine Lord
ABSTRACT How does one do ‘ecocritical Walter Benjamin’ in the city of London? As a professional flâneur between April 2019 and April 2020, I enlisted the support of Benjamin’s 1940 writings ‘Some Motifs in Baudelaire’ and ‘On the Concept of History’, and four poems from Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal. These lyrics explore entangled spaces between the human and nonhuman world. Benjamin developed two concepts – ‘shock’ and ‘shock experience’ (Chockerlebnis), the latter through his engagement with Baudelaire’s work. Therefore, ecopoetic analyses of Baudelaire’s ‘Correspondances’, ‘Obsession’ (1857), ‘Le Soleil’ and ‘Le Squelette Laboureur’ (1861) aided my analysis of four London sites: Lewisham’s train tracks, Sky Garden, Oxford Circus, and the Charterhouse Museum. Reading the four sites with the aid of Baudelaire’s lyrics allowed an unearthing and creation of dialectical images as they relate to the climate emergency.
一个人如何在伦敦做“生态批评家沃尔特·本雅明”?在2019年4月至2020年4月期间，作为一名专业fl作家，我得到了本雅明1940年的作品《波德莱尔的一些主题》和《历史概念》的支持，以及查尔斯·波德莱尔的《Mal Fleurs du Mal》中的四首诗。这些歌词探索了人类和非人类世界之间纠缠的空间。本雅明发展了两个概念——“冲击”和“冲击体验”(乔克莱布尼斯)，后者是通过他与波德莱尔的作品的接触而产生的。因此，对波德莱尔的《通信》、《痴迷》(1857)、《太阳》和《小苦工》(1861)的生态诗学分析有助于我分析伦敦的四个地点:刘易舍姆的火车轨道、空中花园、牛津广场和查特库斯博物馆。借助波德莱尔的歌词阅读这四个地点，可以挖掘和创造与气候紧急情况有关的辩证图像。
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