Eco is short of ecology, which is concerned with the relationships between living organisms in their natural environment as well as their relationships with that environment. The Journal of Ecocriticism is an open-access, peer-reviewed electronic review of ecocriticism and ecoliterature. Register a free Taylor & Francis Online account today to boost your research and gain these benefits: Register to receive personalised research and resources by email, Floods in contemporary biocentric graphic novels, Inundations, boundaries and intersections: flood as narration in Nigerian literature, Flooded cities in Low Countries fiction: Referentiality and indeterminate allegory in Renate Dorrestein’s, When the levees break: global heating, watery rhetoric and complexity in Paolo Bacigalupi’s, The global deluge: floods, diluvian imagery, and aquatic language in Amitav Ghosh’s, Coastal works: cultures of the Atlantic edge, edited by Nicholas Allen, Nick Groom and Jos Smith, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017, xvi + 292 pp., £55.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-1987-9515-5, Colonialism, Culture, Whales: The Cetacean Quartet, by Graham Huggan, London and New York, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, xviii + 130 pp., £67.50 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-3500-1089-5, Transatlantic landscapes: environmental awareness, literature, and the arts, edited by José Manuel Marrero Henríquez, Madrid, Instituto Franklin de Estudios Norteamericanos, 2016, 239 pp., €15.00, ISBN 978-84-16978-05-2, Veer ecology: a companion for environmental thinking, edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert, Minneapolis, MN, University of Minnesota Press, 2017 x +518 pp., £18.82 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-5179-0077-9, Plants in contemporary poetry: ecocriticism and the botanical imagination, edited by John Charles Ryan, London, Routledge, 2018, 246 pp., £110 (hardback), £20 (ebook), ISBN: 9781138186286, Evergreen ash: ecology and catastrophe in old Norse myth and literature, by Christopher Abram, Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 2019, xx10+240 pp., £39.95 (hardback), ISBN: 9780813942278, Creating a Transformational Community: The Fundamentals of Stewardship Activities, edited by August John Hoffman, London, Lexington Books, 2017, xiii + 146 pp., $85.00 (hardback) ISBN: 978-1-4985-4008-7, by Samantha Walton, Norwich, Boiler House Press, 2018, 88 + viii pp., £10 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-911343-46-2, Become a member of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE -UKI), Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing & Allied Health. 1 Adding to this growth, the essays … The word ecocriticism is a semineologism. In their introduction to that collection of essays, Bracke and Corporaal argue that ecocriticism, or the “study of human–nature relations in literature, film and other cultural expressions”, has grown beyond its initial parameters within American and British nature writing to occupy a spot “at the forefront of current trends in the study of literatures in English”. From novel to narrative and poetry, from children’s literature to ecothrillers, literature remains a crucial domain of ecocriticism. Aims and scope; Instructions for authors; Association information; Journal information; Editorial board; Editorial policies ; Latest articles. their journal ISLE (Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment). In short, ecocriticism is an interdisciplinary approach that is enriched by all other fields of science to deal with the global environmental crisis. Co-Editors: 2008-2015 About this journal. Major aspects of nowadays discussion focus on the evolution of ecocriticism since its appearance in the 1990's, i.e. This organization holds biennial meetings for ecocritics. 5 Howick Place | London | SW1P 1WG. Nor is it a word that yields its meaning easily. It invites manuscripts that address any issue of interest to its readership. To submit a manuscript to the Journal of Ecocriticism click here. Robin Chen-Hsing Tsai’s issue of the comparative literature and critical theory journal Neohelicon foregrounds ecocriticism’s drive towards speculative materialism. The official journal of the ASLE, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE), represents the latest in scholarship on ecocritism. To view the current issue, click on "current"in the top menu line. Registered in England & Wales No. See all volumes and issues. For this special issue of Humanities articles will "return" to the essential meaning of ecocriticism: literature embracing nature. 3099067 Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism is an academic journal published by ASLE-UKI that explores the relationship between literary, artistic and popular culture and the various conceptions of the environment articulated by scientific ecology, philosophy, sociology and literary and cultural theory. As an ecocritic or theorist reads particular texts, he or she will think about specific … To learn about our use of cookies and how you can manage your cookie settings, please see our Cookie Policy. By closing this message, you are consenting to our use of cookies. It is a bristly mouthful, a dozen letters that take too long to say. We use cookies to improve your website experience. Ecocriticism, let’s admit, is not a word that sings. Ecocriticism is represented in the United States by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE).