Green Matters

Maria Löschnigg is Professor of English at the University of Graz, Austria. She has published monographs on Canadian literature and British drama, co-edited books on literature and migration, and on contemporary epistolary writing. Her articles focus on a wide range of fields, including ecocritical issues such as Canadian ecopoetry, Native ecologies and Nigerian petro-literature. Melanie Braunecker is a PhD candidate at the Karl Franzens University of Graz, Austria, and a high school teacher of Latin and English in Klagenfurt, Austria. Her PhD project focuses on literary representations of Canada’s oil/tar sands.

• Notes on ContributorsPart 1: Introduction and Theoretical Frame1Introduction to the VolumeMelanie Braunecker and Maria Löschnigg2The Function of Literature in Environmental DiscoursesMaria Löschnigg3Literature and/as Cultural EcologyHubert ZapfPart 2: Literature and the Environment: Past and Present4Representing the Environment in Victorian, Modern, and Postcolonial Fictions: Three Maritime Canadian NovelsDavid Creelman5‘On the Edge of Humanism’: Travel Writing at the Intersection of Environmental ConcernsHalia Koo6James Joyce’s Ulysses: Vampires, ‘Fake News’, and the Approaching Global Environmental Hunger CrisisBonnie RoosPart 3: New Approaches to Climate Fiction7Cli-Fi – Genre of the Twenty-First Century? Narrative Strategies in Contemporary Climate Fiction and FilmAxel Goodbody8Western American Cli-Fi: The Biosemiotics of EcophrasisAlex Hunt9Allegory and Human Nature in Ian McEwan’s SolarJohannes Wally10Un/doing Climate Change in Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book and Ellen van Neerven’s ‘Water’Iva Polak11Abject Permanence: Apocalyptic Narratives and the Horror of PersistenceHeather Duncan and Eleanor GoldPart 4: Creative Criticism12Imagination and the Eco-social Crisis (or: Why I Write Creative Non-fiction)Julia Martin13‘When we walked on the backs of fish’: A Writer’s Environmental Path in the Creation of Multi-dimensional NarrativesMarilyn Bowering14The Multi-genre Multimedia Disjunctive Poetic Narrative Dream Text: ‘New Epic’ Attentions in Contemporary Canadian Experimental WritingDi BrandtPart 5: Special Focus: Canadian Contexts15Native Knowledge Systems and the Cultural Ecology of LiteratureMaria Löschnigg16Climate Change Drama across Time and Space: Chantal Bilodeau’s Forward (2016)Nassim Winnie Balestrini17The Lure of Fast Money: Staging Fort McMurrayMelanie Braunecker18carried away on the crest of a wave – A Play of Hope by David YeeAlbert Rau19Where the Wild Things Are: The Role of Animals in Canadian SchoolbooksClaire E. Smerdon20Two Tragic Tales of Ursus canadensis: Animal Perspectives in Charles G.D. Roberts’ The Heart of the Ancient Wood and Antonine Maillet’s L’OursiadeKonrad GroIndex