Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Subject "ecocriticism"
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The Department of Civic Images: Nature, Technology, and Urbanism
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-31)The modern city is the cradle of human activity, and through it humankind has both the ability to strip the planet of life and the ability to create thriving social and ecological systems. Strategic and interactive urbanisms ... -
How to Communicate Global Warming? Tracking Narrative Streams in Ilija Trojanow’s EisTau
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-14)Global warming is an extremely complex environmental issue with academic research published on the topic in a wide variety of fields. Because the multifaceted aspects of climate change traverse across so many disciplines, ... -
THE MYTH OF DISENCHANTMENT: RELIGION AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE
(University of Waterloo, 2021-03-29)In the following project, I look closely at three living American writers whose work explores the important relations between the religious and ecocritical “turns” in American literature, with particular attention to ways ... -
The Urban Web: Metonymic Representation in the Work of Charles Dickens and George Gissing
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-12)This dissertation deploys the resources of cognitive linguistics and ecocriticism to gain insight into the role of metonymy in the Victorian novel’s representation of an increasingly complex and interconnected urban world. ...