Systems Theory for Ecocriticism
Critical Writing
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2006
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Abstract (in English):
Reviewing Andrew McMurry’s Environmental Renaissance, Stephen Dougherty questions the systems approach to ecocriticism.
(source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/connected)
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“Despite the broad scope of inquiry and disparate levels of sophistication,” Cheryl Glotfelty proclaimed a decade ago in her essay “Literary Studies in an Age of Environmental Crisis,” “all ecological criticism shares the fundamental premise that human culture is connected to the physical world, affecting it and affected by it.
