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Despite Coetzee’s reclusive reputation, Department Chair Lawrence Buell said he did not regret the choice...
...most recent book, Writing for an Endangered World, Buell argues that in fiction the environment is more like a character than a background or setting. “There’s no piece of literature ever written that doesn’t in some sense have an environmental dimension,” Buell said. “All writing is situated...
...Since Buell and his ecocentric peers combine literary works with theoretical works from many other disciplines, the field influences arenas beyond the literary—including even political thought...
...Tovis Page, a PhD student in the Religion Department, has worked closely with Buell as a research assistant and teaching fellow. “Ecocriticisms’ claim that depictions of ‘the environment’ in texts are significant in themselves, not just as mere ‘settings’ for human dramas, is itself ground breaking,” Page wrote in an e-mail...
...it’s future is unclear. But Buell’s current project, a tool-kit for explaining this new vein of literary criticism, looks to codify the movement: focus on some of its main issues, unify its goals and make it accessible to the public. Buell is helping ecocriticism come...