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econarratology en · NOUN

Etymology

From eco- + narratology.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) An approach to literary criticism combining aspects of ecocriticism and narratology.
    • In this book, I highlight the way narratives grapple with the often-collapsed concerns of subjectivity, representation, and environment by bringing together narratological and ecocritical concerns via a mode of reading I call econarratology. 2015, Erin James, The Storyworld Accord: Econarratology and Postcolonial Narratives, University of Nebraska Press, page xv:
    • In the four books exploring the humanism of the Great Story, he expands this biosemiotic analysis to encompass a new econarratology, describing this expansion with an image from aeronautics ... 2015, Christopher Watkin, “Michel Serres’ Great Story: From Biosemiotics to Econarratology”, in SubStance, volume 44, number 3, page 174:
    • In combining my focus on climate crisis flood fiction with an attention to the narratological elements of time, space and character, ths chapter develops works done in the field of econarratology. 2021, Astrid Bracke, “The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene”, in John Parham, editor, The Novel, Cambridge University Press, page 91: