Recently added articles from Journal of Literary Studies:

An ecocritical reading of Pieter Fourie's Die Koggelaar.(Critical essay)

Dec 01, 2007; Keuris, Marisa ... Summary Pieter Fourie's Die Koggelaar (1988) is an important play in his oeuvre and one which has been commented on and discussed by various theorists. Most of these discussions focused on Boet Cronje as the protagonist of the play and foregrounded the themes of racism, ...

Representing the South African landscape: Coetzee, Kentridge, and the ecocritical enterprise *.(J.M. Coetzee and William Kentridge)(Critical essay)

Dec 01, 2007; Labuscagne, Cobi ... Summary South African artist William Kentridge's Soho Series takes place inside a representation of a Johannesburg mine-landscape. It is a post-industrial and postcolonial landscape of exploitation both of the citizens of the country and of the natural environment. This article ...

Irregular regularity: a chaos-theory reading of the ecology presented in Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight".(Critical essay)

Dec 01, 2007; Swanepoel, A.C. ... Summary This article contextualises the ecocritical assumption that nature determines one's ideology within a chaos-theory framework, and argues that Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight" can be seen as an ecosystem, symbolic of the complex relationship between humans and nature. It ...

Guy Butler's political ecology: history, appropriation, alienation, belonging.(Critical essay)

Dec 01, 2007; Thurman, Christopher ... Summary This article explores various aspects of Guy Butler's "ecowriting" and "ecocriticism". The first section considers his evocation of the relationship (or the rift) between natural history and human history. The second section addresses the problematic processes of ...

"Portmanteau biota" and ecofeminist interventions in Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness *.(Critical essay)

Dec 01, 2007; Sewlall, Harry ... Summary When Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, the first African woman, and the first person ever to win the award for environmental activism, was asked by Time magazine's Stephan Faris, "What's the world's biggest challenge?", she replied: "The environment. We are ...

"To see things for the first time": before and after ecocriticism.(Critical essay)

Dec 01, 2007; Larsen, Svend Erik ... Summary Ecocriticism has often been blamed to be too entangled with the literatures and the critical and political agendas of the Anglo-American world, and to be historically and aesthetically reductive inasmuch as its favourite texts are from the nineteenth and twentieth ...

Introduction: special issue ecocriticism Part 2.

Dec 01, 2007; Lemmer, Erika ... The introduction to Part 1 of this double volume traced the institutional history of ecocriticism by referring predominantly to the initiatives of Anglo-American ecocritics as frontrunners in the field. A common denominator shared by the collection of essays in the first volume was the ...