W6 lecture notes – Eco Criticism
Slides Notes
1
Eco
2 "If you want to explain Jane Austen you can't just talk about Britain,
you've got to talk about the salve trade, and if you talk about the slave
trade you have to talk about the about the damage to the planet you
need to talk about species migrations and human migration"
Claire Cloebrook
Adkins P. & Parkins W. & Colebrook C., (2018) “Victorian
Studies in the Anthropocene: An Interview with Claire
Colebrook”, 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth
Century 0(26). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/ntn.819
4 How should we read literature (and other texts) from
Questions to the past, and the present, in the light of eco-
keep in mind catastrophe?
What concepts would we need to draw on to think
about literature in relation to ecological questions? And
how might ecological concepts relate to the grammar of
literary criticism?
Conversely, then might certain literary critical concepts
(e.g. To do with p.o.v or narrative temporality/closure )
actually be useful for reading the more general situation
of eco-catastrophe?
Given that human culture (that is to say the whole set of
ways in which we have shaped and cultivated and
worked over the world) is responsible for climate
change and extinction events in the first place, aren't we
just repeating the problem, by looking to cultural forms
for solutions?
7 'The term, already rather free from the constraints of geological
The term terminology, may remain useful so long as its various but related uses
'anthropocene' retain a self-critical, even self-deconstructive force, even marking the
terms own equivocality as symptomatic of the kinds of blurring of
would-be sharp conceptual, rhetorical, material and disciplinary
borders in a newly recognised planetary context', p. 3
8
How climate
We might see it as a ‘whole’ (but this is probably a
crisis affects our
view of the delusion, since we are always inside it!)
world
Slides Notes
1
Eco
2 "If you want to explain Jane Austen you can't just talk about Britain,
you've got to talk about the salve trade, and if you talk about the slave
trade you have to talk about the about the damage to the planet you
need to talk about species migrations and human migration"
Claire Cloebrook
Adkins P. & Parkins W. & Colebrook C., (2018) “Victorian
Studies in the Anthropocene: An Interview with Claire
Colebrook”, 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth
Century 0(26). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/ntn.819
4 How should we read literature (and other texts) from
Questions to the past, and the present, in the light of eco-
keep in mind catastrophe?
What concepts would we need to draw on to think
about literature in relation to ecological questions? And
how might ecological concepts relate to the grammar of
literary criticism?
Conversely, then might certain literary critical concepts
(e.g. To do with p.o.v or narrative temporality/closure )
actually be useful for reading the more general situation
of eco-catastrophe?
Given that human culture (that is to say the whole set of
ways in which we have shaped and cultivated and
worked over the world) is responsible for climate
change and extinction events in the first place, aren't we
just repeating the problem, by looking to cultural forms
for solutions?
7 'The term, already rather free from the constraints of geological
The term terminology, may remain useful so long as its various but related uses
'anthropocene' retain a self-critical, even self-deconstructive force, even marking the
terms own equivocality as symptomatic of the kinds of blurring of
would-be sharp conceptual, rhetorical, material and disciplinary
borders in a newly recognised planetary context', p. 3
8
How climate
We might see it as a ‘whole’ (but this is probably a
crisis affects our
view of the delusion, since we are always inside it!)
world
