https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1345567
https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2025.34.11-42
‘Speaking in the Name of the Biotic Community’: Anatomies and Theories of the Environmental/ Ecological Text
Aleksandra Ubertowska
Translated from Polish by Margreta Grigorova
This is a meta-theoretical and meta-disciplinary study on the achievements of ecocriticism and environmental criticism, from the first wave of ecocriticism to the most recent trends, such as material ecocriticism and Timothy Morton’s theories rooted in deconstruction. Ubertowska devotes particular attention to the concept of the ‘environmental text’ developed by Lawrence Buell, the Nestor of the discipline. His concept forms the axis of this review of different positions within ecocriticism and environmental criticism.
Keywords: ecocriticism; environmentalism; materialism; hyperobjects
About the author: Aleksandra Ubertowska (University of Gdańsk) is а literary scholar, teacher of Contemporary Polish Literature at the University of Gdańsk. Her research interests include the Holocaust, identity issues and ecocriticism. She has published articles in “Teksty Drugie”, “Pamiętnik Literacki”, “Ruch Literacki”, in Polish and foreign collective volumes, including editions bу Lexington Books, Peter Lang, Akademie Verlag.
