Browsing by Subject "ecocriticism"
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Earth’s Last Hour: Climate Crisis Defeatism and Green Anarchism in Jack Vance’s The Dying Earth
(2024-08-19)This thesis argues that the titular “science fantasy” setting in Jack Vance’s collection of interrelated stories, The Dying Earth, helps to illuminate the harms of the ideology of climate defeatism. In the text, “magical” ... -
Just Apocalypse?: From Apocalypse to Justice in Climate Fiction
(2024-04-10)This dissertation argues that contrary to recent criticism of climate fiction, many works of cli-fi engage with climate justice by exploring the connections between the climate crisis, colonialism, environmental racism, ... -
Lowly Wisdom: An Ecological Reading of Book Eight in Paradise Lost
(2014-08-25)This thesis offers an ecocritical and rhetorical analysis of the archangel Raphael's discourse on the limits of human knowledge in Book Eight of Paradise Lost (8.64-178); my argument outlines the connection between a ... -
...of the Dead: The Rhizombie, An Indigenous-Informed Approach to Contagion
(2024-04-11)Contagion increasingly overlays other social concerns infecting our world, such as racial oppression and climate crises, and thus threatens to render all other issues invisible. This project, however, argues that contagion ...