Our third session will take place on Thursday 11th March in room GSB2, 2 Gower Street, between 1 and 3pm. The texts that we will be discussing are as follows:
- Chapter 1 of Ursula K. Heise's Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).
- Hubert Zapf's chapter, "The State of Ecocriticism and the Function of Nature as Cultural Ecology", in Catrin Gerstof and Sylvia Mayer (eds), Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies: Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006).
The questions for this week's discussion are as follows:
What is ecocriticism?
Is there an over-emphasis on the concept of 'interconnectedness' in ecocriticism?
Is Heise right to suggest 'eco-cosmopolitanism' as a way of re-envisioning globalisation from an ecological perspective?
Is Heise's idea of 'deterritorialisation' the solution to the problem of the global versus the local in ecocriticism? What does this mean for literature?
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