An Exploratory Analysis of ScienceBlog
A recent international project, Investigating Interdisciplinary Research Discourse, carried out at the Centre for Corpus Research (University of Birmingham) investigates the entire holdings of the
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02/2016
• #Climate Change
The Rhetoric of Seduction, the Aesthetics of Waste, and Ecopornography in Edward Burtynsky’s Shipbreaking
This article analyzes Edward Burtynsky’s Shipbreaking (2009), a controversial photographic project that inquires into the representation of environmental corruption and economic exploitation faced
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02/2016
• #Environmental Damage
Volcanic Matters: Magmatic Cinema, Ecocriticism, and Italy
Return to the Aeolian Islands (Fughe e approdi, 2010) chronicles director Giovanna Taviani’s journey to the Aeolian Islands, a volcanic archipelago off the coast of Sicily and setting for a host of
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02/2016
• #Environment and Nature
"I wish no living thing to suffer pain”. Percy Bysshe Shelley e la dieta vegetariana
Percy Bysshe Shelley began a mild form of vegetable diet. In many of his works (A Refutation of Deism, e Revolt of Islam, Prometheus Unbound, Alastor) Shelley dealt with the issue of natural diet,
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02/2016
• #Ethical Lifestyle
Man and Landscape in Old English Literature
The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between man and landscape in Old English literature starting from the assumption that, during the Middle Ages, landscape was not merely a
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02/2016
• #Environment and Nature
“Earth! have they gone into you?” An Ecocritical Reading of the Relationship Between Man, Nature and War in Isaac Rosenberg’s Poems
This paper considers some of the poems written by the English soldier-poet Isaac Rosenberg during the First World War in order to show his ecological awareness in the depiction of and reflection upon
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02/2016
• #Environmental Damage
“Direction? ... There was no direction. The prairie stretched to the end of the world”. American Land and the Pioneer Woman
Black Soil, a novel written by an Irish pioneer woman, tells about her arrival and settlement in the Iowa prairies in the second half of the 19th century. The goal of my essay is to investigate the
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02/2016
• #Culture and Lifestyle
An Air-conditioned Global Warming.The Description of Settings in Ian McEwan’s Solar
The three main settings of McEwan’s Solar, a novel described as “the first great global-warming novel” (Walsh 2010) are significant: from London, to the Artic Pole, up to the desert in New
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02/2016
• #Global Warming