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1. 1. Voice, Agency, and Urgency : Three Ecocritical Readings of Nature and the Protagonist in Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

   Author : Annika Salisbury; [2023]
   Keywords : Delia Owens; Where the Crawdads Sing; ecocriticism; postcolonial ecocriticism; ecofeminism; climate change criticism; voice; agency; urgency.; Delia Owens; Where the Crawdads Sing; ekokritik; postkolonial ekokritik; ekofeminism; klimatkritik; röst; agens; brådska.;

   Abstract : The female protagonist Catherine Danielle Clark (Kya) in Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing is abandoned by her family at a young age and grows up alone in a marshland environment in 1950s North Carolina. Shunned by the local community, Kya relies on nature to help her survive and to teach her about life and love—until one day she finds herself accused of murder. READ MORE

3. 2. Towards the second draft : An eco-theological and ecocritical analysis of Sheila Heti’s Pure Color and its potential in the EFL classroom

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Luis Boaventura Fernandes; [2023]
   Keywords : Eco-theology; ecocriticism; EFL Classroom; Pure Color; upper secondary school; literature; teaching literature;

   Abstract : Education on sustainable development and environmental awareness is becoming increasingly important with the current climate emergency. This type of education extends across all school subjects and texts of various kinds are shown to be able to help students gain new insights about the world and themselves. READ MORE

4. 3. Birdpoetic Worlds : Sensing the more-than-human worlds through Nina Södergren's bird poems

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Estetik

   Author : Jessica Sunnebo; [2023]
   Keywords : Nina Södergren; Animism; Ecocriticism; Human-animal studies; Ecopoetics; Zoopoetics; Poetry; Birdpoetry; Birds; More-than-human world; Attentiveness; Nils Aslak Valkeapää; Nina Södergren; Animism; Ekokritik; Litterära djurstudier; Ekopoetik; Zoopoetik; Poesi; Fågelpoesi; Fåglar; Mer-än-mänsklig värld; Uppmärksamhet; Nils Aslak Valkeapää;

   Abstract : This thesis, Birdpoetic Worlds: Sensing the more-than-human worlds through Nina Södergren’s bird poems, analyses a selection of poems by Swedish poet Nina Södergren (1924–2015) from the collection Högt ärade trana: Nya dikter och urval av tidigare poesi* (2012),  through the lens of ecocriticism and animism. The aim is to identify and explore how her bird poetics can function as an invitation to sense a relational experience and interconnectedness with the more-than-human world, especially through attentiveness. READ MORE

5. 4. Nature as an uncontrolled space in George Orwell’s 'Nineteen Eighty-four' and Aldous Huxley’s 'Brave New World'

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Jonna Hugsén; [2023]
   Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This paper suggests that dystopian fiction should receive more attention within the environmental advocacy space. Despite the genre’s ability to provoke the reader, it is rarely interpreted in an environmental context. READ MORE

6. 5. The Overstory: A Blueprint for Cultural Change in the Anthropocene

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelska

   Author : Isak Sköld; [2023]
   Keywords : the Anthropocene; Cultural Change; Richard Powers; The Overstory; Trees; Literature; Climate Change Literature; Ecocriticism; Activism; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : Within the field of ecocriticism, there is an ongoing discussion about climate change fiction and the capacity for literature to inspire cultural change in relation to the climate crisis of the Anthropocene. Relatively new novels explore the inherent conflict between consumerist features of contemporary human culture and scientific facts regarding human impact on life on Earth. READ MORE