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Ecocriticism has emerged as one of the most fascinating and rapidly growing fields of recent literary and cultural studies, which involves a decidedly transdisciplinary and international paradigm of research and teaching. The volume maps some of the most important developments within contemporary Ecocriticism from a variety of different angles, approaches, areas, and perspectives. It introduces relevant theoretical concepts and issues, and demonstrates their relevance for the analysis of texts and other cultural phenomena. Contents -- 0. Introduction -- Part I. Ecocritical Theories of Culture and Literature -- 1. The Lightest Burden: The Aesthetic Abductions of Biosemiotics -- 2. Earth's Poesy: Romantic Poetics, Natural Philosophy, and Biosemiotics -- 3. Merleau-Ponty and the Eco-Literary Imaginary -- 4. Ecology and Immanence -- 5. Paradox as Bedrock: Social Systems Theory and the Ungrounding of Literary Environmentalism in Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire -- 6. Aesthetics of Nature - A Philosophical Perspective 7. Cultural Ecology of Literature - Literature as Cultural Ecology -- Part II. Issues and Directions of Contemporary Ecocriticism -- 8. Neither the 'Simple Backward Look' nor the 'Simple Progressive Thrust': Ecocriticism and the Politics of Prosperity -- 9. Political Ecology: Nature, Democracy, and American Literary Culture -- 10. Ecocriticism and Postcolonial Studies -- 11. Ecofeminisms, the Toxic Body, and Linda Hogan's Power 12. Ecocriticism, Place Studies, and Colm Tóibín's "A Long Winter": A Biocultural Perspective -- 13. Animal Studies: Kafka's Animal Stories -- 14. From Material to Posthuman Ecocriticism: Hybridity, Stories, Natures -- 15. Conciliation and Consilience: Climate Change in Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behaviour -- Part III. Between the Local and the Global: Cultural Diversity vs. Eco-Cosmopolitanism -- 16. Narrative Scholarship as an American Contribution to Global Ecocriticism 17. Ecology and Life Writing in Transnational and Transcultural Perspective -- 18. From Thomas Mann to Porto Marghera: Material Ecocriticism, Literary Interpretation, and Death in Venice -- 19. Mediterranean Ecocriticism: The Sea in the Middle -- 20. Eco- and Geo- Approaches in French and Francophone Literary Studies -- 21. Latin American Environmental Discourses, Indigenous Ecological Consciousness and the Problem of 'Authentic' Native Identities 22. Women Writing Nature in the Global South: New Forest Texts from Fractured Indian Forests -- 23. Ecocultures and the African Literary Tradition -- 24. Ecosophy and Ecoaesthetics: A Chinese Perspective -- 25. World Risk Society and Ecoglobalism: Risk, Literature, and the Anthropocene -- Part IV. Ecologies of Literary Communication Sieglinde Grimm and Berbeli Wanning -- 26. Cultural Ecology and the Teaching of Literature -- 27. Environmental Narrative, Embodiment, and Emotion 28. Beyond the Wasteland: An Ecocritical Reading of Modernist Trauma Literature
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