Nature âOut Thereâ and as âa Social Playerâ: Some Basic Consequences for a Literary Ecocritical Analysis

Christa Grewe-Volpp

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Nature âOut Thereâ and as âa Social Playerâ: Some Basic Consequences for a Literary Ecocritical Analysis

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The following essay argues for a mediating position in ecocriticism between proponents of a naÃ¯ve realism who insist on a re-evaluation of the âactual,â prediscursive universe and proponents of poststructuralism who understand nature as a text. Such a mediating position can be derived from the theories of Donna Haraway and N. Katherine Hayles, both of whom try to maintain a difficult balance between constructivism and objectivism. The second part of the essay develops four basic consequences for an ecocritical literary analysis based on the conception of nature both as a physical-material entity and as a cultural construction. They are to be understood as a kind of blueprint for an ecocritical reading of cultural representations.

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Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies

Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism

Series:Â Nature, Culture and Literature, Volume: 3

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