ABSTRACT
Ecocriticism and environmental communication studies have for many years co-existed as parallel disciplines, occasionally crossing paths but typically operating in separate academic spheres. These fields are now rapidly converging, and this handbook aims to reinforce the common concerns and methodologies of the sibling disciplines.
The Routledge Handbook of Ecocriticism and Environmental Communication charts the history of the relationship between ecocriticism and environmental communication studies, while also highlighting key new paradigms in information studies, diverse examples of practical applications of environmental communication and textual analysis, and the patterns and challenges of environmental communication in non-Western societies. Contributors to this book include literary, film and religious studies scholars, communication studies specialists, environmental historians, practicing journalists, art critics, linguists, ethnographers, sociologists, literary theorists, and others, but all focus their discussions on key issues in textual representations of human–nature relationships and on the challenges and possibilities of environmental communication. The handbook is designed to map existing trends in both ecocriticism and environmental communication and to predict future directions.
This handbook will be an essential reference for teachers, students, and practitioners of environmental literature, film, journalism, communication, and rhetoric, and well as the broader meta-discipline of environmental humanities.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
New frameworks
chapter 2|10 pages
The climate of change
chapter 3|18 pages
Eco churches, eco synagogues, eco Hollywood
chapter 4|9 pages
Communicating resistance in/through an aquatic ecology
chapter 6|13 pages
Discovering the Weatherworld
chapter 7|14 pages
Narrative communication in environmental fiction
chapter 11|14 pages
The literal and literary conflicts of climate change
part II|2 pages
Pragmatic communication
chapter 13|12 pages
Directionality in Thomas Cole’s The Oxbow
chapter 15|12 pages
The “Chernobyl Syndrome” in U.S. nuclear fiction
chapter 20|13 pages
When thirst had undone so many
chapter 21|10 pages
Cows, corn, and communication
part III|2 pages
Non-Western environmental communication