S posebnim ozirom na slovenski prostor sem se posvetila vprašanjem, ki jih odpira (ne)trop antropomorfizacije. Pregled osrednjih slovenskih literarnoteoretskih priročnikov ter kratek zgodovinski pregled personifikacije je pokazal, da antropomorfizacija najtesnejše tropološke vezi spleta s personifikacijo. Posledica te vezi je velika nejasnost in ne...
Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries / Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable / Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all / Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all / Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
In preparation for a panel dealing with the intersection of colonial/postcolonial literatures and affect theory, due to take place at the next GAPS conference, CEREP member Delphine Munos will be organizing a workshop on Monday 28 March 2022 (5-7pm) at ULiège in Salle de l’Horloge. The workshop will offer an informal venue for exchanging ideas abou...
Published in Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
The elements and the elemental have emerged as increasingly productive concepts at the intersection of media theory, ecocriticism, and environmental philosophy. The article builds on this scholarship to discuss the potentials of an elemental approach in literary and cultural studies. Against the backdrop of the climate crisis, it outlines the stake...
Published in Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad (2016) offers a meditation on elemental matter and its intersections with slavery, race, and resistance to racialization. Combining Lindgren Johnson’s concept of a fugitive humanism with elemental analysis for a reading of Whitehead’s sixth novel, the article proceeds in three steps. First, I briefly outl...
Introduced as an aesthetic and rhetorical concept by Longinus in ancient thought, the notion of the sublime has a venerable history in arts and culture. From Thomas Burnett and Joseph Addison to Edmund Burke, Immanuel Kant and the romantic poets, theorists of the “natural sublime” have described a fraught relationship between humans and a natural w...
Magistrska naloga se ukvarja z ekokritiškim branjem sodobne slovenske alpinistične literature, ki je izšla med letoma 2015 in 2020. Osrednja obravnava se loteva vprašanj v zvezi z reprezentacijo ekološke povezanosti in okoljske krize, s kritiko človeške dominacije nad nečloveškim in kritiko kolonializma, in sicer pri analizi naslednjih del: Najvišj...
This thesis examines transformations of human characters into trees, stones, and water sources in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The current climate crisis is partly the result of a view of nature as a passive object, or inert matter, that humans without consequences can exploit. Using primarily the ecocritical theory new materialism, this thesis is a study...
Urfolk, ekokritik och kritisk literacy
