The Trumpeter - Journal of Ecosophy (Athabasca University)
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Life on the Move
No full textWhat does the War on Terror have to teach us about the ongoing War on Invasive Species? Rooted in the author's personal experiences as an immigrant on a family farm in Virginia, this essay explores themes of language, mental frames, and violent conflict in novel ways that shed insight into the morality of the struggle to manage unwanted species.  
Hiding a Hurricane Under a Beach Umbrella: Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night's Ecological Latencies
No full textAt first glance, Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night seems like a far cry from what Matthew M. Lambert has termed “Green Depression” literature. Philip Rahv’s critique that Tender attempted to hide from a hurricane under a beach umbrella tagged it with the lingering perception that it was incongruously out of touch with its era’s “climate.” Revisiting Tender through the lens of Antonioni’s 1960 film L’avventura that showcases a copy of Fitzgerald’s novel, this article looks back on the novel itself to reveal the powerful undertow of its “ecological latencies,” which were there all along in submerged and “dormant” form. The creation of this lens through which to view Tender Is the Night does not mean that this article aims to offer a comparative reading of Antonioni’s film and Fitzgerald’s novel. Side-by-side formal comparison is not the goal of this article. Rather, the article underscores a carefully staged yet critically overlooked reference in Antonioni’s 1960s film itself—to Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night—in order to offer a completely new reading, an ecologically engaged one, of Fitzgerald’s 1934 novel
Hultman & Pulé, "Ecological Masculinities: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Guidance."
No full textThe Language of Ecopoetry and the Transfer of Meaning
Get PDFThis article explores the properties of ecopoetry that have to do with the realisation that we are not merely external observers but active and intrinsic participants within the biosphere. The type of ecopoetics I am advocating takes a subjective stance to experience: it begins from within individual consciousness and is rooted in sensory perception. Reference to the world through this type of ecopoetry evokes a tone or mood, or “atmosphere” between environmental attributes and human experience that can solicit an emotional response. Ecopoetry can deliver meaning on a level beyond the direct connotations of the signs and symbols on the page. This has to do with “presence” as a phenomenological approach to the aesthetics of nature. Employing these concepts has the potential to bridge the gap between nature and politics, and influence attitudes towards living sustainably with the earth
