Stories from the Thick of Things: Introducing Material Ecocriticism. (original) (raw)

In preparation of our co-edited book on Material Ecocriticism, we propose a “diptych”--a double vision of converging paths--about the key concepts of this new interpretive paradigm for ecocritical studies. The diptych provides a map of its most notable formulations (theoretical models for the intertwining of bodies, discourses, and natures), and examines the effects of the “material turn” on ecocriticism in our combined vision. Please quote my part as S. Iovino, Stories from the Thick of Things: Introducing Material Ecocriticism. Part I of S. Iovino and S. Oppermann, Theorizing Material Ecocriticism: A Diptych.