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{"title":"Essential Concepts of Environmental Communication: An A-Z Guide","authors":"Dipayan Dutta","doi":"10.1080/14688417.2022.2146949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2022.2146949","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38019,"journal":{"name":"Green Letters","volume":"211 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77512190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Haunted Nature: Entanglements of the Human and the Nonhuman","authors":"Teresa Fitzpatrick","doi":"10.1080/14688417.2022.2138966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2022.2138966","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38019,"journal":{"name":"Green Letters","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89648401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rougier de la Bergerie’s Bucolic Poetry and the Nineteenth-Century French Discourse on Climate and Deforestation","authors":"Giulia Pacini","doi":"10.1080/14688417.2023.2214154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2023.2214154","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay examines the bucolic poetry of the French agronomist Jean-Baptiste Rougier de la Bergerie (1762–1836). It presents his views on the value of scientific poetry; situates his writing within the contemporary French discourse on deforestation and climate instability; and shows how his Églogues bucoliques clamoured for action to protect the nation’s woods and thereby regulate meteorological conditions across the land. In this regard Rougier criticised the ignorance and excessive influence of the French Academies in Paris and granted an important voice to rural experiences and perspectives. He therefore decentred traditional sites of authority and defended the value of a horizontal information network offering more empirical and local forms of knowledge.","PeriodicalId":38019,"journal":{"name":"Green Letters","volume":"51 1","pages":"397 - 411"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73638587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Just a Dumb Bunny’: The Conventions and Rebellions of the Cutified Feminised Animal","authors":"Isabel Galleymore","doi":"10.1080/14688417.2023.2213700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2023.2213700","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Cuteness is primarily associated with a trivial superficiality, so it is perhaps no surprise to find it a relatively ignored aesthetic within environmental thought, which tends to favour seriousness and complexity. The emerging field of cute studies has, however, begun to trouble such associations. This article offers an environmental lens on cute studies by taking, as its case study, the cutified, feminised animal and developing Sianne Ngai’s discourse on the power dynamics inherent to cuteness. Examining vivid examples from Hello Kitty to D. H. Lawrence’s poems, I argue that cuteness objectifies and ‘others’ female and animal identities, often to violent effect. Given the cutified, feminised animal’s supposed passivity, what resistance can be expected? Analysing Aase Berg’s bloodthirsty guinea-pig poems, I argue that horror tropes undertaken in a camp, comedic style serve to expose the violence within cuteness, generating an important opportunity for an environmental reframing of the cute.","PeriodicalId":38019,"journal":{"name":"Green Letters","volume":"30 1","pages":"335 - 350"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74895500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘The Rain Coming Down in Drenching curtains’: Reading for the Pluvial in the Climate Change Fiction of Chang-Rae Lee and Jane Rawson","authors":"Erin M. Fehskens","doi":"10.1080/14688417.2023.2214142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2023.2214142","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Theorisations of climate change literature rethink realism, the status of human/nonhuman relations and the agency of the landscape. This paper uses Sarah Nuttall’s concept of the pluvial mode to examine how these theoretical prescriptions function in contemporary novels to create conditions of refuge in spaces that have become largely uninhabitable for the majority of a population through climate change. In Jane Rawson’s A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists (2013) and Chang-Rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea (2014) rainstorms instigate conditions hospitable to refuge and immerse the text in a drawn-out connection between that concept and watery images, beings and spaces. The novels locate refuge in the realm of affect or condition, and in so doing, create a disruptive element of possibility in otherwise apocalyptic narratives in which there seems to be no escape from precarity and uncertainty.","PeriodicalId":38019,"journal":{"name":"Green Letters","volume":"121 1","pages":"351 - 366"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85341517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Biosemiotic Reading of J.M.G. Le Clézio’s Fiction: (Re-) Envisioning the Complexity of Other-Than-Human Semiosis and Trans-Specific Communication","authors":"Keith Moser","doi":"10.1080/14688417.2023.2199017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2023.2199017","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Delving into biosemiotic and endosemiotic theory, this transdisciplinary analysis of Le Clézio’s fiction illustrates how the Franco-Mauritian author undermines the dichotomous thinking that pits the human semiotic agent against soulless automata whose sounds and gestures are nothing but the insignificant product of an internal machinery. Le Clézio takes aim at much of Western philosophy and traditional linguistic theory, which tend to undermine the importance of other-than-human semiosis entirely, in his call for a re-evaluation of the complexity of the signs that are endlessly being conceived, transmitted and interpreted by and between various species. Similar to the founding father of Biosemiotics Jakob von Uexküll, Le Clézio implores us to reinvigorate our dulled senses in the postmodern world in order to (re-) establish a sensorial connection to the ‘score of nature’, thereby enabling us to catch a glimpse of the billions of other biosemiosic threads in the web of life.","PeriodicalId":38019,"journal":{"name":"Green Letters","volume":"24 1","pages":"323 - 334"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80343452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"John Parham, Obituary","authors":"T. Gifford","doi":"10.1080/14688417.2023.2241218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2023.2241218","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38019,"journal":{"name":"Green Letters","volume":"11 1","pages":"301 - 302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86348302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mass Tourism, Ecocriticism, and Mills & Boon Romances (1970s-1980s)","authors":"M. Pérez-Gil","doi":"10.1080/14688417.2023.2202190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2023.2202190","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT At first sight, Mills & Boon romances may seem to bear little or no relation to environmentalism; however, critical comments about the negative impact of sun, sea and sand tourism are not uncommon in the pages of these novels. The tourism boom of the 1960s and 1970s led to increasing concern about its effects on the environment. Using a historical approach, I focus on several romance novels set in southern Europe, the area attracting the highest rate of visitors at that time and visibly suffering the consequences of unbridled construction. Some of the tools of econarratology and cognitive ecocriticism serve to provide further insights into the novels.","PeriodicalId":38019,"journal":{"name":"Green Letters","volume":"13 1","pages":"383 - 396"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88463301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Flowers of Extinction: An Ecocritical Flâneur in London, April 2019 to April 2020","authors":"Catherine Lord","doi":"10.1080/14688417.2023.2202193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2023.2202193","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT How does one do ‘ecocritical Walter Benjamin’ in the city of London? As a professional flâneur between April 2019 and April 2020, I enlisted the support of Benjamin’s 1940 writings ‘Some Motifs in Baudelaire’ and ‘On the Concept of History’, and four poems from Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal. These lyrics explore entangled spaces between the human and nonhuman world. Benjamin developed two concepts – ‘shock’ and ‘shock experience’ (Chockerlebnis), the latter through his engagement with Baudelaire’s work. Therefore, ecopoetic analyses of Baudelaire’s ‘Correspondances’, ‘Obsession’ (1857), ‘Le Soleil’ and ‘Le Squelette Laboureur’ (1861) aided my analysis of four London sites: Lewisham’s train tracks, Sky Garden, Oxford Circus, and the Charterhouse Museum. Reading the four sites with the aid of Baudelaire’s lyrics allowed an unearthing and creation of dialectical images as they relate to the climate emergency.","PeriodicalId":38019,"journal":{"name":"Green Letters","volume":"36 1","pages":"367 - 382"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86643434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editorial: On Cuteness, Shock, Romance, and Refuge","authors":"Alexandra Campbell","doi":"10.1080/14688417.2022.2229035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2022.2229035","url":null,"abstract":"From the politics of cuteness and the pluvial conditions of refuge to the ecological potency of shock and Romance, the seven essays gathered in this open edition of Green Letters incorporate a wide spectrum of methodologies and materials that strike new and at times unexpected grounds in ecocritical scholarship. While several essays in this issue build strongly upon established tranches of ecocritical thought in their examination of arboreal landscapes, biosemiotics, and historical relations between poetry and science, other articles ask us to step off the beaten track and to attune to distinctly unconventional and understudied repositories of ecological thought. Alongside the familiar ecological matter of trees, storms and cityscapes, we are invited to contemplate the mute figure of Hello Kitty and to consider the ecocritical potential of the popular Romance imaginaries of Mills & Boon. While these materials might not initially strike us as the usual fodder of environmental thought Green Letters has always been a space that seeks to foster new directions in the field, and in this issue we continue our commitment to support innovative research that shocks us out of disciplinary complacency and destabilises entrenched knowledge hierarchies. Opening this issue, Keith Moser’s article ‘A Biosemiotic Reading of J.M.G. Le Clézio’s Fiction: (Re-) Envisioning the Complexity of Other-Than-Human Semiosis and TransSpecific Communication’ provides a rich reading of the score of nonhuman melodies that mark the Nobel Laureate’s novelistic oeuvre. Where Le Clézio’s work has drawn attention from scholars for its sensuous engagement with the nonhuman world, Moser’s analysis takes us deeper into ‘a world comprised of overlapping semiotic realms’, following the threads of biosemiotic relation as they weave through an expanded web of life. Against dichotomous and hierarchical modes of thought that pit ‘the human semiotic agent against soulless automata’, Moser argues that Le Clézio’s work invites us to tune into the ‘splendor of the semiotic elemental symphony in which we are immersed’. Interrogating Western Humanist traditions that suggest only humans can ‘engage in meaningful semiosis’, Moser’s readings alight upon a dazzling range of ‘active interpreters’, including birds, trees, and bacteria, and draws out their attendant modes of sensorial and chemical communication to contest speciesist perspectives that position the human as the apex communicator. Against readings of nonhuman lives as linguistically impoverished, Moser’s argument invites us to tune into trans-species forms of communication and sense-making, and to consider the role literature plays in connecting us to the sonorous polyphony of the non-human world. The next article takes us from the hierarchies of non-human communication into the politics of cuteness in animal studies. In her piece, ‘Just a Dumb Bunny: The Conventions and Rebellions of the Cutified Feminised Animal’, Isabel Galleymore offers u","PeriodicalId":38019,"journal":{"name":"Green Letters","volume":"40 1","pages":"303 - 306"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79512395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}