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Reverence for Nature: Trees in the Poetry of W.S. Merwin and Others
This study understands ecopoetry as an effort to reverse the deadening impact of ordinary language on our lives. Ecopoetry awakens our senses; it...
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The Study of Animal Rhetorics as an “Awareness Raising” Effort
The penultimate chapter highlights some ways animal studies raise awareness of not only the plight of nonhuman animals, but also several groups of...
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Hybrid Secondary Worlds: Animal Fantasy
This chapter combines ecocriticism and storyworld theory to analyze the deliberate conflation of the fantastic fictional world and consensus reality...
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Michel Onfray’s Biosemiotic, Materialistic, and Post-Monotheistic Reworking of Human and Other-Than-Human Semiosis
This chapter delves into the controversial philosopher Michel Onfray’s biosemiotic, materialistic, and post-monotheistic reworking of human and...
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Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein: Two Modernist Women Writing as Dogs
This chapter will analyze two white, Anglo-American modernist women writers’ relation to the status great writer by reading together Virginia Woolf’s...
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Conclusion
In the conclusion, I posit that the interdiscipline of biosemiotics appears to be uniquely positioned as an indispensable theoretical framework for...
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Overpopulation and cognitive map** of freedom: Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom
This article argues that in Freedom , Walter Berglund is a psychologically complex character whose overpopulation concerns exist both at the story and...
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“Without the Right Words It’s Hard to Retain Clarity”: Speculative Fiction and Animal Narrative
Speculative fiction is a privileged space to explore the human relationship with other animals. Such fiction, especially science fiction, merges our...
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Resilience of the Oracular in W.S. Merwin’s “Forgotten Language”
Since the early 1950s, Merwin’s poetry has engaged in a project to interrogate and reconstitute, in a Poundian sense, the old mythos of the...
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The Left Hand of Darkness: Ursula Le Guin and the Haploid Heart
Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness has been controversial for half a century, but it has gained in significance in recent years due to its...
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The Biosemiosic Gaze of the “wholly other” and the Philosophical Exercise of “limitrophy” in Jacques Derrida’s Posthumous Philosophy
This chapter examines how Derrida’s destabilizing encounter with another semiotic agent and subject (i.e., his cat) serves as a philosophical...
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Law, Fiction, and Moral Standing
A model of legal standing used in U. S. law is compared to possibilities for standing with respect to moral judgement and judgement of fiction. The...
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Syntax or How I Become What I Seem
This chapter links the sequence of words and the order of biological development. Identities are also inherited through genetic sequences, learned...
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Betty Louise Bell’s Faces in the Moon: Trauma, Settler Colonialism, and Storytelling
Betty Louise Bell’s Faces in the Moon (1994) connects sexual and racial traumas, economic disenfranchisement, and settler colonialism, situating...
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Edges and Extremes in Ecobiography: Amy Liptrot’s The Outrun
This chapter reads Amy Liptrot’s The Outrun through the lens of ecobiography, a form of life writing which details the connections between a human...
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Postcolonial Science Fiction and the Ethics of Empire
This chapter explores the ethical issues involved in alien contact by focusing on Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood, which appears to reproduce the...
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Albatross Unbound: Worlding the Plastic Sea
How does the sea open onto us? Alien, imperialist, overpoweritng, geopolitical, ecogenetic, nautical, and cultural. Perhaps more, perhaps as plastic...
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Posthumanism and Anthropology
This chapter explores the relationship between anthropology and critical posthumanism, two lines of enquiry that proceed from the fundamental...
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Posthumanism and Anthropology
This chapter explores the relationship between anthropology and critical posthumanism, two lines of enquiry that proceed from the fundamental...