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Notes
1 Bracke and Corporaal, 709.
2 Ibid.
3 Glotfelty, xviii.
4 Buell, Future of Environmental Criticism, 11.
5 DeLoughrey and Handley, 14. See Buell, Future of Environmental Criticism. For discussion of ecocriticism's third wave, see Adamson and Slovic, “The Shoulders We Stand On.”
6 Arguably, DeLoughrey and Handley's criticism partly involves a slide from ecocriticism as a subfield of specifically literary and cultural studies to environmentally minded critique generally. They “recognize the need for field synopses and do not advocate drawing a hard line between environmental and ecocritical methodologies because they have developed in conversation and reflect intrinsically hybrid discourses” (15). The point is well observed, but it simultaneously suggests that others have perhaps drawn this line for provisional and pragmatic reasons.
7 Buell draws from ecocentrism as across disciplines with emphasis on Timothy O’Riordan's definition, which espouses an ethics of scale, responsibility and humility. In Buell and other sources including contemporary philosophy, the term often gestures toward an ethical reorientation that decentres the human (Buell, Environmental Imagination, 425).
8 Ibid., 145.
9 Buell, Writing for an Endangered World, 241–2.
10 Heise, Sense of Place, 21, 22.
11 Heise, “Afterword,” 258.
12 Easterlin, 96.
13 Ibid., 139.
14 See Joseph Meeker's “The Comic Mode” on comedy, Terry Gifford's various publications on the pastoral, Greg Garrard's Ecocriticism for discussions about the pastoral and georgic, the first chapter of Rob Nixon's Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor for a proposed eco-picaresque, Eric C. Otto's Green Speculations: Science Fiction and Transformative Environmentalism, and Anat Pick and Guinevere Narraway's co-edited volume Screening Nature: Cinema Beyond the Human.
15 Nolan, 88.
16 Knickerbocker, 4.
17 Lehtimäki, 119.
18 Ibid., 137.
19 James, xv.
20 Ibid.
21 Prince quoted in Warhol, 220; ibid., 21.
22 Iovino and Oppermann, 6, 7 (original emphasis).
23 Ibid., 9.
24 Slovic, 35, 34.
25 Iovino, 106.
26 Wildcat, 73.
27 See also Herman, “Storyworld/Umwelt”; and Keen, “Fast Tracks to Narrative Empathy.”