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category: Literary Criticism
published: Nov 2013
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Greening the Maple

Canadian Ecocriticism in Context

edited by Ella Soper; Nicholas Bradley, contributions by Stephanie Posthumus; Northrop Frye; Rosemary Sullivan; Heather Murray; Laurie Ricou; Gabriele Helms; Susie O'Brien; Jenny Kerber; Cheryl Lousley; Linda Morra; Elise Salaun; Catriona Sandilands; Rita Wong; Misao Dean; Carrie Dawson; Pamela Banting; Adam Dickinson; Travis V. Mason; Linda Hutcheon; D.M.R. Bentley; Sherrill E Grace; Margaret Atwood & Nelson Gray

tagged: canadian, environmental conservation & protection
Description

 

Ecocriticism can be described in very general terms as the investigation of the many ways in which culture and the environment are interrelated and conceptualized. Ecocriticism aspires to understand and often to celebrate the natural world, yet it does so indirectly by focusing primarily on written texts. Hailed as one of the most timely and provocative developments in literary and cultural studies of recent decades, it has also been greeted with bewilderment or scepticism by those for whom its aims and methods are unclear. This book seeks to bring into view the development of ecocriticism in the context of Canadian literary studies. Selections include work by Margaret Atwood, Northrop Frye, Sherrill Grace, and Rosemary Sullivan.

 

About the Authors
Ella Soper is a lecturer in the Department of English and Drama at the University of Toronto Mississauga, in the Department of English at University of Toronto Scarborough, and in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University.

Ella Soper is a lecturer in the Department of English and Drama at the University of Toronto Mississauga, in the Department of English at University of Toronto Scarborough, and in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University.

Northrop Frye (1912-1991) was Canada’s leading literary critic and one of the world’s leading theorists of society and the imagination. Among his twenty-three books, and more than three hundred articles and reviews, are classic studies such as Fearful Symmetry, Anatomy of Criticism, The Great Code, and Words With Power.


Rosemary Sullivan is the bestselling author of 16 books of biography, memoir, poetry, travelogue, and short fiction. Her books include Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen, Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape and a House in Marseille, and Stalin’s Daughter. Sullivan has worked with Amnesty International since 1979. In 1980 she founded The Writer and Human Rights to aid its activities. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2012.

Heather Murray is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto.

Heather Murray is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto.

Heather Murray is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto.

Heather Murray is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto.

Nicholas Bradley is associate professor of English at the University of Victoria.

Jenny Kerber teaches in the areas of Canadian and American literature, literary theory, and environmental criticism in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. Her essays on Canadian literary and environmental topics have appeared in Canadian Poetry, Canadian Literature, Essays on Canadian Writing, and Green Letters. This is her first book.

Jenny Kerber teaches in the areas of Canadian and American literature, literary theory, and environmental criticism in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. Her essays on Canadian literary and environmental topics have appeared in Canadian Poetry, Canadian Literature, Essays on Canadian Writing, and Green Letters. This is her first book.

Linda M. Morra is an associate professor in the Department of English at Bishop’s University and the current president of the Quebec Writers’ Federation. She edited the collected letters of Emily Carr and Ira Dilworth published with the University of Toronto Press (2006), and edited and annotated Jane Rule’s Taking my Life (2011).

Linda M. Morra is an associate professor in the Department of English at Bishop’s University and the current president of the Quebec Writers’ Federation. She edited the collected letters of Emily Carr and Ira Dilworth published with the University of Toronto Press (2006), and edited and annotated Jane Rule’s Taking my Life (2011).

Linda M. Morra is an associate professor in the Department of English at Bishop’s University and the current president of the Quebec Writers’ Federation. She edited the collected letters of Emily Carr and Ira Dilworth published with the University of Toronto Press (2006), and edited and annotated Jane Rule’s Taking my Life (2011).

Rita Wong is a poet and scholar whose writing attends to ecological justice and decolonial love. She has written several books of poetry including monkeypuzzle; sybil unrest (with Larissa Lai); undercurrent; perpetual (with Cindy Mochizuki); beholden (with Fred Wah); current, climate; and forage, which won the 2008 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and was the 2011 Canada Reads Poetry champion. Wong is the recipient of the 2024 Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize and also won the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award from the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop. She is an associate professor in critical and cultural studies at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. She lives on unceded Coast Salish territories, also known as Vancouver.


Rita Wong is a poet and scholar whose writing attends to ecological justice and decolonial love. She has written several books of poetry including monkeypuzzle; sybil unrest (with Larissa Lai); undercurrent; perpetual (with Cindy Mochizuki); beholden (with Fred Wah); current, climate; and forage, which won the 2008 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and was the 2011 Canada Reads Poetry champion. Wong is the recipient of the 2024 Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize and also won the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award from the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop. She is an associate professor in critical and cultural studies at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. She lives on unceded Coast Salish territories, also known as Vancouver.


Rita Wong is a poet and scholar whose writing attends to ecological justice and decolonial love. She has written several books of poetry including monkeypuzzle; sybil unrest (with Larissa Lai); undercurrent; perpetual (with Cindy Mochizuki); beholden (with Fred Wah); current, climate; and forage, which won the 2008 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and was the 2011 Canada Reads Poetry champion. Wong is the recipient of the 2024 Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize and also won the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award from the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop. She is an associate professor in critical and cultural studies at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. She lives on unceded Coast Salish territories, also known as Vancouver.


Rita Wong is a poet and scholar whose writing attends to ecological justice and decolonial love. She has written several books of poetry including monkeypuzzle; sybil unrest (with Larissa Lai); undercurrent; perpetual (with Cindy Mochizuki); beholden (with Fred Wah); current, climate; and forage, which won the 2008 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and was the 2011 Canada Reads Poetry champion. Wong is the recipient of the 2024 Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize and also won the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award from the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop. She is an associate professor in critical and cultural studies at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. She lives on unceded Coast Salish territories, also known as Vancouver.


Adam Dickinson's poetry has appeared in literary journals and anthologies in Canada and internationally. He has published three books of poetry. His most recent book, The Polymers, was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for Poetry, the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, and the ReLit Award. His work has been translated into Chinese, Dutch, and Polish. He has been featured at international literary festivals such as Poetry International in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and the Oslo International Poetry Festival in Norway. He currently lives in St. Catherines, Ontario, where he teaches poetics and creative writing at Brock University.


Travis V. Mason teaches ecocriticism and postcolonial and Canadian literatures. He received both a Mellon and Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship. He is the author of Ornithologies of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, and Don McKay (WLU Press, 2013).

Travis V. Mason teaches ecocriticism and postcolonial and Canadian literatures. He received both a Mellon and Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship. He is the author of Ornithologies of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, and Don McKay (WLU Press, 2013).

Travis V. Mason teaches ecocriticism and postcolonial and Canadian literatures. He received both a Mellon and Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship. He is the author of Ornithologies of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, and Don McKay (WLU Press, 2013).

Sherrill E. Grace is professor of English, University of British Columbia, and the author of Inventing Tom Thomson.

Sherrill E. Grace is professor of English, University of British Columbia, and the author of Inventing Tom Thomson.

Sherrill E. Grace is professor of English, University of British Columbia, and the author of Inventing Tom Thomson.
Contributor Notes

Ella Soper is a lecturer in the Department of English and Drama at the University of Toronto Mississauga, in the Department of English at University of Toronto Scarborough, and in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University.

Nicholas Bradley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Victoria.

Editorial Reviews

 

A fascinating overview of Canadian critical engagement with nature.

—Marinette Grimbeek, European Journal of Literature, Culture, and Environment

 


 

Greening the Maple is a must read for those interested in literature and the environment. The collection demonstrates the uniqueness and worth of Canadian ecocriticism and its various origins and trajectories.

—Alec Follett, Alternatives Journal

 


 

If a good anthology is one that both lays the foundation and opens the door, Greening the Maple fits the bill. This landmark volume demonstrates that ecocriticism in Canada is well established and is also ripe for questioning and extending.

—Paul Huebener, University of Toronto Quarterly

 

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