Here I examine several articles from recent issues of environmental studies journals and practice applying their methods to my own inquiry. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment This is the official journal of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE). It examines the relationships between humans and the natural world from […]
Actor Networks and Limited Effects of Audience Response to Media (Frameworks Part 2)
In Environmental Studies, we often approach ideas, problems, and situation with the framework of Actor Network Theory (ANT). Apart from a useful way to visualize movement and effect within a given context, ANT schematizes a topic and provides a trackable way to analyze relationships. As I explored with Latour’s and Le Guin’s theories, relationships between […]
Linear Technologies, Narrative Capacity: Latour and Le Guin (Frameworks Part 1)
Last semester in Environmental Theory, we dove into the very definitions of the word “theory” and explored the tricky facets of the field or fields. In class last week, Liz delineated theories in the natural science context from theories in the social science context. In the natural science context, theories are as good as it […]
Did I Answer Your Question?
Today I had two consecutive experiences that speak to two different aspects of my budding thesis. First, I went to my ENG 450 seminar on John Keats and we talked about literary theory. We asked huge questions like: What can a word do? What can a poem do? What are the limits of representation? Does […]
Fundamental Readings, Fundamental Metaphors
My topic is not what it was in April or May. My topic has transformed and has begun to grow a new bibliography to support its new direction. The new additions to my new bibliography range from the psychological experience of reading fiction and receiving stories to theories of how literature is related to environmental […]