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Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies is a collection of essays written by European and North American scholars who argue that nature and culture can no longer be thought of in oppositional, mutually exclusive terms. They are united in an effort to push the theoretical limits of ecocriticism towards a more rigorous investigation of nature's critical potential as a concept that challenges modern culture's philosophical assumptions, epistemological convictions, aesthetic principles, and ethical imperatives. This volume offers scholars and students of literature, culture, history, philosophy, and linguistics new insights into the ongoing transformation of ecocriticism into an innovative force in international and interdisciplinary literary and cultural studies. Intro -- Contents -- Nature in literary and cultural studies: defining the subject of ecocriticism - an introduction -- THEORIZING THE NATURE OF ECOCRITICISM -- Literature, the environment, and the question of the posthuman -- The state of ecocriticism and the function of literature as cultural ecology -- Nature "out there" and as "a social player": some basic consequences for a literary ecocritical analysis -- Feminist and postcolonial perspectives on ecocriticism in a Canadian context: toward a 'situated' literary theory and practice of ecofeminism and environmental justice -- Literary studies, ecofeminism and environmentalist knowledge production in the humanities -- LOCATING NATURE IN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND EVERDAY CULTURE -- (Historical) ecolinguistics and literary analysis -- Trees are what everyone needs:" The Lorax, anthropocentrism, and the problem of mimesis -- Afterglow: Chernobyl and the everyday -- Syllabled to us for names": Native American echoes in Walt Whitman's green poetics -- We are dirt: we are earth": Ursula Le Guin and the problem of extraterrestrialism -- Virtual tourism: the consumption of natural and digital environments -- Gertrud Leutenegger's metanoic narrative Kontinent -- NATURE, LITERATURE AND THE SPACE OF THE NATIONAL -- Nature/place, memory, and identity in the poetry of Lithuanian émigré Danutė Paškevičiūtė -- German literature, nature and modernity before 1914 -- Nature and nationalism in the writings of Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769-1860) -- It was shown in the way they stepped in the woods: nature in Hermann Löns and Edward Thomas -- The aesthetic appreciation of nature as a reaction to dictatorship: disjunction and dissidence in the Inner Emigration -- From egocentrism to ecocentrism: nature and morality in German writing in the 1980s -- ETHICS OF NATURE.
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