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Othello Through Critical Lens: Ecocriticism

Keywords for Ecocritical Theory

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Wildcard:  The query behavi?r finds the behavior or behaviour.

Truncation:  The query organiz*= organization, organize, organizational

Put a phrase in “quotes”. For example, “human behavior"

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For example: media AND violence, teens OR adolescents, psychology NOT clinical

Nature as a Metaphor: storm, chaos, garden, Eden, sea, unknown, animalistic imagery
Environmental Impact on Characters: isolation, confinement, emotional turmoil, moral decay
Human-Nature Connection: human behavior, natural laws, environmental influence
Ecocritical Themes: environmental degradation, sustainability, human responsibility

Philosophers and Theorists:  Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, Martin Heidegger, Arne Naess

 Writers: Rachel Carson, Naomi Klein, John Muir, Barry Lopez, John Burroughs, William Wordsworth, John Muir, Henry David Thoreau  

Databases

Example of an article:

Strickler, Breyan. “Sex in the City: An Ecocritical Perspective on the Place of Gender and Race in Othello.” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 12, no. 2, 2005, pp. 119–37. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44086433.

Example of an article:

Hopkins, Lisa. "'This is Venice: My house is not a grange': Othello's Landscape of the Mind." Shakespearean Criticism, edited by Michelle Lee, vol. 89, Gale, 2005. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1420067003/GLS?u=nypl&sid=bookmark-GLS&xid=bf68a25a. Originally published in Upstart Crow, vol. 20, 2000, pp. 68-78.

Example of an article:

Mentz, Steve. "Shakespeare and the Blue Humanities." Studies in English Literature, 1500 - 1900, vol. 59, no. 2, 2019, pp. 383-392. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/shakespeare-blue-humanities/docview/2233075664/se-2.

Example of an eBook:

Phillips, Dana. "Ecocriticism, Literary Theory, and the Truth of Ecology." New Literary History, vol. 30 no. 3, 1999, p. 577-602. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nlh.1999.0040.