Extending Ecocriticism

• Other Authors: Barry, Peter, Welstead, William
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Manchester University Press 2017
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctica; Iceland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781784994396.001.0001

This volume of essays explores the scope for a further extension of ecocriticism across the environmental humanities. Contributors, who include both established academics and early-career researchers in the humanities, were given free rein to interpret the brief. This collection of essays is unusual in that it considers collaborations between individuals both within a single discipline and between various creative disciplines. Subjects include exploring familiar environments close to home, and those such as Iceland and Antarctica, where narratives of climate, geology and ecology provide a stark backdrop to creative and observational output. A further innovation is the inclusion of essays on public art, natural heritage interpretation and the visualisation and aesthetic impact of wind farms. The book will be of interest to writers, artists, students and researchers in the environmental humanities and beyond, as well as those with general interests in innovative cultural responses to the environment.