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Article: Green cultural studies: an introductory critique of an emerging discipline.
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- Mosaic (Winnipeg)
- Article date:
- March 1, 1997
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A satellite topography of the English literary tradition since the Industrial Revolution might show nature as a spiritual-imaginative object in the Romantic climes, as a religious or scientific object in the Victorian domain, and as a symbolic/formal object in the Modern realm. In the territory of Postmodernity, nature, probably due to its rapid decimation, emerges as a politico-cultural object, one which is no longer restricted to literature, "fine" art, and formalist cinema and video, but also has starring roles in commercials, photos, and movies, and is at the center of heated public debates about "ecocide," "ecoterrorism," "ecopornography," "greenwashing" and "animal ...