Ecology vs Ecocriticism - What's the difference?
ecology | ecocriticism |
The branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.
* 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart
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The interdisciplinary study of literature and ecology.
* 1998 , Patrick D Murphy, Terry Gifford, Katsunori Yamazato, Literature of nature: an international sourcebook?
* 2003 , Roger Thompson, J Scott Bryson, Twentieth-century American nature writers: prose?
* 2007 , Fiona Becket, Terry Gifford, Culture, creativity and environment: new environmentalist criticism
As nouns the difference between ecology and ecocriticism
is that ecology is the branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other while ecocriticism is the interdisciplinary study of literature and ecology.ecology
English
(wikipedia ecology)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
- As a graduate student, he was working on a thesis: The Ecology of the Black Creek Area . He had to investigate the relationships, past and present, of men and plants and animals in this region.
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Derived terms
* agroecology * autecology * chemical ecology * dendroecology * ecology block * ethnoecology * geoecology * hydroecology * macroecology * myrmecology * palaeoecology * paleoecology * photoecology * radioecology * restoration ecology * social ecology * socioecology * synecologySee also
* English words suffixed with -ologyecocriticism
English
Noun
(-) (wikipedia ecocriticism)- A chapter on North Woods writers is an ideal project in which to engage the fundamental issues of ecocriticism .
- The emergence of ecocriticism as a distinct field of inquiry parallels the reemergence of literary critic as cultural activist...
- In this light, the current volume is a work of ecocriticism , although not all the contributors would wish to define themselves first and foremost as ecocritics.