Empirical Ecocriticism : Environmental Narratives for Social Change / Matthew Schneider-Mayerson [and three others], editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecocriticism.

Human ecology.

Global environmental change.

Books and reading.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2023]

Summary:

"Part manifesto, part toolkit, part proof of concept, and part dialogue, Empirical Ecocriticism studies the influence of environmental stories on our affects, attitudes, and actions. The contributors leverage case studies on topics ranging from the impact of climate fiction on readers' willingness to engage in activism to the political empowerment that results from participating in environmental theater, ultimately pointing toward a novel and fruitful synthesis of the environmental humanities and social sciences"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Toward an Integrated Approach to Environmental Narratives and Social Change

Part I: Methods

1. Experimental Methods for the Environmental Humanities: Measuring Affects and Effects

2. Qualitative Approaches to Empirical Ecocriticism: Understanding Multidimensional Concepts, Experiences, and Processes

3. Exploring the Environmental Humanities through Film Production

Part II: Case Studies

4. Does Climate Fiction Work?: An Experimental Test of the Immediate and Delayed Effects of Reading Cli-Fi

5. The Roles of Exemplar Voice, Compassion, and Pity in Shaping Audience Responses to Environmental News Narratives

6. The Reception of Radical Texts: The Complicated Case of Alice Walker's "Am I Blue?"

7. Screening Waste, Feeling Slow Violence: An Empirical Reception Study of the Environmental Documentary Plastic China

8. All the World's a Warming Stage: Applied Theater, Climate Change, and the Art of Community-Based Assessments

9. Tracing the Language of Ecocriticism: Insights from an Automated Text Analysis of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment

Part III: Reflections

10. Empirical Ecocriticism and the Future of (Eco)Narratology

11. Two Cheers for Empirical Ecocriticism

12. Empirical Ecocriticism and Modes of Persuasion

13. Stories about the Environment for Diverse Audiences: Insights from Environmental Communication

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew Empirical Ecocriticism

ISBN:

9781452969459

1452969450

OCLC:

1381732814