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Ecology vs Ecocriticism - What's the difference?

ecology | ecocriticism |

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

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

  • The branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.
  • * 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
  • , author=Robert M. Pringle , title=How to Be Manipulative , volume=100, issue=1, page=31 , magazine= citation , passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.}}

    Derived terms

    * agroecology * autecology * chemical ecology * dendroecology * ecology block * ethnoecology * geoecology * hydroecology * macroecology * myrmecology * palaeoecology * paleoecology * photoecology * radioecology * restoration ecology * social ecology * socioecology * synecology

    ecocriticism

    English

    Noun

    (-) (wikipedia ecocriticism)
  • The interdisciplinary study of literature and ecology.
  • * 1998 , Patrick D Murphy, Terry Gifford, Katsunori Yamazato, Literature of nature: an international sourcebook?
  • A chapter on North Woods writers is an ideal project in which to engage the fundamental issues of ecocriticism .
  • * 2003 , Roger Thompson, J Scott Bryson, Twentieth-century American nature writers: prose?
  • The emergence of ecocriticism as a distinct field of inquiry parallels the reemergence of literary critic as cultural activist...
  • * 2007 , Fiona Becket, Terry Gifford, Culture, creativity and environment: new environmentalist criticism
  • 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.

    Derived terms

    * ecocritic * ecocritical