Environment and Fiction

The essays in this volume engage with questions concerning the relationships between fictional texts and environmental issues in their various articulations, and offer critical readings that display the theoretical diversity in the current reconsiderations of the place of human in relation to nature and the environment.

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Özden Sözalan (PhD, Essex) is Professor of Literature and head of the English Department at stanbul Bilgi University. nci Bilgin Tekin (PhD, METU) is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and teaches in the English Department at stanbul Bilgi University.

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Özden Sözalan Introduction Sinem Yazcolu The Urban Body in Edgar Allan Poe's The Man of the Crowd nci Bilgin Tekin An Old Debate, New Perspectives: Cherrie Moraga's and Caryl Churchill's Dialogues with Nature Nilay Kaya and Ekin Gündüz Özdemirci Embodied Anthropocentrism in Anatolian Novel and Film Burcu Kayc Akkoyun Intersections, Interventions, and Utopian Pessimism in Son Ada (The Last Island) Aye Beyza Artukarslan The Cat, the Cock, the Maid and Zeberjet: The Animals of Motherland Hotel Zeynep Talay Turner Grizzly Man: From the Ethics of Film to the Ethics of the Animal-Other Canan avkay The Precarious Lives of Cats in Doris Lessing's On Cats Ferdi Çetin Decentering the Human on Stage: Neither as Posthumanist Opera Özlem Karada Ecofeminist Ecopoetics and Carol Ann Duffy Notes on the Contributors