Louise Squire defines environmental crisis fiction as concerned with a range of environmental issues and with the human subject as a catalyst for these issues. She argues that this fiction is characterised by a thematic use of "death," through which it explores a "crisis" of both environment and self.
Louise Squire defines environmental crisis fiction as concerned with a range of environmental issues and with the human subject as a catalyst for these issues. She argues that this fiction is characterised by a thematic use of "death," through which it explores a "crisis" of both environment and self.
Louise Squire researches in contemporary literature and ecocriticism. She works at University of Portsmouth and is Assistant Editor for Ecozon@. Publications include (co-editor) Literature and Sustainability: Concept, Text and Culture, a chapter in Extending Ecocritcism, ed. by Peter Barry and William Welstead, and an article in The Oxford Literary Review.
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Introduction: Thoughts Towards an Ecology of Death-Facing 1. A Crisis of Environment, A crisis in Thought 2. Death Denial, Death facing 3. Impasse, Paradox 4. Discursive Death, Material Death Conclusion: Imageries of the Future
Introduction: Thoughts Towards an Ecology of Death-Facing 1. A Crisis of Environment, A crisis in Thought 2. Death Denial, Death facing 3. Impasse, Paradox 4. Discursive Death, Material Death Conclusion: Imageries of the Future
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