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by Adina Ciugureanu (Volume Editor), Eduard Vlad (Volume Editor)
The book explores the key concerns in the United States of America, as well as around the world today, related to the significance of ecology, eco-consciousness and climate change.
The chapters by individual authors reflect the topics both from a theoretical and from an ecocritical perspective. In the former case, they analyze effects of the present ecological crises (i.e. climate change and pandemics), the emergence and development of environmental humanities, posthumanism, ecocriticism, ecofeminism, and ecotheology. In the latter case, they offer readings of American literary texts of the 20th and 21st centuries as significant case studies.
Author Biography
Adina Ciugureanu is Professor Emerita of British and American Studies at Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania. Her research interests and publications focus on aspects related to British and American nineteenth- and twentieth century literature, Modernism, feminist studies, eco- and geo-criticism.
Eduard Vlad is Professor of American Studies at Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania. His interests and publications include issues of literary and cultural studies, with relevant aspects of identity theory in the globalization age.
