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This article reframes Zola's character networks in the Rougon-Macquart as ecologies. By comparing episodes of transgression in La curée and La faute de l'abbé Mouret , I demonstrate how characters become fused with plants and gardens in each novel, forming a singular, merged entity. Consequently, I argue that narrative setting not merely serves as a location in which a story unfolds, but rather is endowed with a human-like agency. The alliance between character and environment therefore urges a reexamination of the writer's conception of milieu , which expands to include an ecological dimension, alongside the social and hereditary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an interview with author Stephanie LeMenager. Topics discussed include rise of climate-fiction as a popular genre to the sociological phenomenon; tension between the market-driven necessity of climate change fiction entertainment value; and overlap of digital humanities and the environmental humanities.

The article discusses the fiction of writer William Gay, focusing on matters of ecology and environmentalism in his literary works. Topics discussed include his novels "The Long Home", "Provinces of Night" and "Twilight", Gay's fiction emerging out of the southern Gothic tradition, and a clear engagement of his novels with environmental issues.

A literary criticism of the novel "Finnegans Wake" by James Joyce is presented. It explores the literary symbolic representations of animals which are still grounded in the ecology of natural world. It also argues that animal conflict for food, habitat and other necessities shows struggle for survival as a living creature.

The article is about the attempts of contemporary literature to help readers realize the procession of identity and ecology. The author points out the factors that should be engaged in order to immerse the reader in a reality and reality filled with potential. He explores the concepts, practices and behaviors to emphasize how contemporary environmental writings question human preconception, misconception and perception about nature.

The article discusses ecology, industries and African Americans in literature. It focuses on William Attaway's novel "Blood on the Forge." It examines the industrialization of the highly polluted Pittsburgh of 1919 in Pennsylvania in the context of ecological degradation, racial conflict and labor exploits. It also examines the novel's presentation of ecological ethic.

The article discusses ecology in literature. It focuses on the writings of Marilynne Robinson, particularly one of her books that criticized Greenpeace's ineffectiveness in banning an environmental problem in Europe. He argues that environmentalists believe that the deterioration or degradation of the environment is a result of the false separation of the human being and the natural being. He adds that the advancement of civilization has suggested that human beings are not part of the environment.

Presents an ecocritical approach to writer Patrick Chamoiseau's novel 'Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows.' Examination of the use of land and space metaphors to demonstrate a line of resistance to the endangerment of Creole culture in the face of French colonialism; Analysis of cultural symbolisms in the struggle between Creole and French cultural forces; Opposition to the ecological devastation in the novel.

Discusses the importance of ecocriticism in literature-and-environment studies. Essays on normative disposition; Observations on the link between environmentally-valenced text and physical landscape; Distinction on ecocritical emphases.

Discusses the paradoxical relation between liberal subject and market economy and American individualism to wilderness. Virtual ecologies and the illusion of liberal subject; Role of media and politics in the loop; Strategy in giving information through mediating pathways; Presentation of counter-measures as technologies of the self.

Discusses the origins of literary ecocriticism and its contribution to the interpretation of twentieth-century poems. Role of natural history in achieving novelty in imagery and language; Function of ornithologist in transforming superstition into a natural condition; Importance of ornithological knowledge in understanding bird as an individual in poetry; Limitations in nature writing.

Comments on the relationship between ecology and literature in the essay by William Cronon. Fundamental problem of sublime wilderness; Literary criticism on asymmetrical power relationships; Observation of historically-oriented critics regarding the ideology of the sublime; Role of nature in the literary representations of the sublime.

Discusses the relationship between ecocriticism, literary theory and the truth of ecology. Impatience of ecocritics on literary theory; Traits of ecocritical rhetoric in ecology and environmentalism; Arguments on the analytical premises of literature; Essence of environmental writing on representation.

Discusses the challenge and opportunity of ecocriticism into interdisciplinarity and science. Interconnection between science and art; Relevance of biology to human experience; Arguments on the inseparability of literature from nature and ecology; Influence of environment on the history of human societies; Problem of ecocriticism; Implication of biological thinking and research to humankind.

Evaluates the significance of ecological thought on the intellectual development of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Relevance to the understanding of Coleridge's poetry and prose; Importance of the natural world to William Wordsworth and Coleridge; Organicism in the nature of language.

Discusses the writings of Percy and Mary Shelley on ecology. Contrast of style between Percy and Mary; Material and moral pollution in miasma; Celebration of the progress of liberty.

Discusses the relation between romanticism and ecology. Difficulties in the definition of ecology; Possibility of different kinds of ecological literature; Environmental ethics.