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From Knight Errant to Exploring Pioneer: The Influence of Medieval Romances on the Depiction of Human and Non-Human Others in John Filson’s “The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon”

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Magro G.

Review of International American Studies

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2022

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vol. 15

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issue 2

187-210

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This article analyzes, through a comparative approach, a frontier narrative, John Filson’s “The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon” (1784), in relation to selected medieval chivalric romances from an ecocritical perspective, exploring the way in which medieval patterns have been employed in the American mythopoeic process, especially in relation to the frontier and the wilderness myths. In fact, medievalist narratives have been often employed to justify an anthropocentric, expansionist, and imperialistic agenda with grievous consequences on the way in which Americans engage with nature and with nonhuman species. At the same time, this tendency is often accompanied by an androcentric and ethnocentric rhetoric, contributing to the marginalization from dominant national discourses of significant sections of the population due to their race and gender. For this reason, attention will be also given to how attitudes toward the nonhuman can reflect and bear an impact on those toward other humans. By investigating how narratives develop, evolve, and circulate across time and space, it becomes possible to reveal the harmful logic they carry, and stress the importance of shifting the narrative in the direction of more sustainable intra- and inter-species relations.

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Environmentální Průkopníci (1823) Jamese Fenimora Coopera ve světle literární ekokritiky

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Peprník M.

Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)

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2022

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vol. 32

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issue 66

12-28

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The aim of the paper is to discover to what extent and in which respects James Fenimore Cooper’s novel The Pioneers (1823) can be regarded as the forerunner of American environmental literature, preceding thus Henry David Thoreau’s Walden (1854), which is usually considered as the foundational text. As a classification frame, the paper employs Lawrence Buell’s set of interrelated imaginative structures of ecocentric literary vision. The results of the examination indicate that out of the five imaginative structures of environmental literature, Relinquishment, Nature’s Personhood, Nature’s Face and Mind’s Eye: Seasons, Sense of Place, and Environmental Apocalypticism, all are at work and display a distinctive ecocentric orientation in the novel but with a different degree of intensity and frequency.

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Ekokritika a fáze uvědomění v české literatuře

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Hrdlička J.

Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)

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2022

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vol. 32

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issue 66

95-110

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Ecocriticism represents a trend of thought that has been gaining ground in the Czech academic milieu, and thinking about it raises a number of questions at the moment: whether there are any local analogues of ecocriticism, whether it makes sense to transfer the theory to the local context, and what the impact of such transfer could be. The main part of the article is devoted to the different phases of ecological consciousness in Czech literature and illustrates three of them with examples: the Romantic (Mácha, Erben, Furch), the early 20th century (Deml, Neumann) and the 1980s (Páral, Juliš). The conclusion of the article focuses on the question of the awareness of the state in these different phases and its inevitable incompleteness.

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Lumberjanes e Hilda, serie a fumetti scout tra ecocritica ed ecofemminismo

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Forni D.

Italica Wratislaviensia

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2022

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issue 13.1

75-96

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Tra le forme della letteratura per l’infanzia che si occupano del complesso rapporto tra umanità e natura, il fumetto costituisce un genere in grado di offrire diversi spunti di riflessione per ragazzi/e sul tema. In particolare, la fiction ha recentemente rivisitato il movimento scout, aprendolo a nuovi valori in relazione all’identità e al rapporto con l’ambiente. Il presente articolo prende in considerazione due serie a fumetti sullo scoutismo, Hilda (Luke Pearson, 2010–2019) e Lumberjanes (Noelle Stevenson, 2014–2020). Entrambe narrano la storia di un gruppo eterogeneo di personaggi alle prese con attività di scoutismo: le storie, ambientate in contesti naturali, ritraggono la crescita di giovani e peculiari personaggi che, proprio attraverso il contatto costante con l’ambiente naturale, svilupperanno un forte rispetto tanto per la natura, quanto per il gruppo dei pari, in una convivenza pacifica, seppur avventuriera, con l’ambiente e con le diverse forme di vita che lo abitano. Il saggio intende elaborare un primo stato dell’arte che evidenzi nuovi filoni interpretativi in questo genere letterario attraverso una lente ecocritica ed ecofemminista. Lo studio esplora in ottica comparativa le due opere, così da mostrare come le narrazioni a fumetti possano presentare interessanti dinamiche ecologiche ed egualitarie, in questo caso attraverso lo strumento dello scoutismo.

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Among the forms of children’s literature that deal with the complex relationship between humanity and nature, comics can offer various insights on the topic for boys and girls. In particular, children’s stories have recently revitalized the scout movement, interpreting it through new values related to identity, gender and ecology. This paper will consider two comic book series on scouting, Hilda (Luke Pearson, 2011–2019) and Lumberjanes (Noelle Stevenson, 2014–2020). Both works tell the story of a diverse group of characters involved in scouting activities: the stories, developed in natural settings, portray the growth of young and peculiar characters who, through constant contact with the environment, show a strong respect for both nature and the peer group, in a peaceful and adventurous coexistence with the environment and the different forms of life that inhabit it. The essay aims to develop a first state of the art that highlights new interpretative strands in this literary genre through an ecocritical and ecofeminist lens. The study explores the two works in a comparative perspective, so as to show how comic book narratives can present interesting ecological and egalitarian dynamics, in this case through the experience of scouting.

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From Knight Errant to Exploring Pioneer: The Influence of Medieval Romances on the Depiction of Human and Non-Human Others in John Filson’s “The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon”

Environmentální Průkopníci (1823) Jamese Fenimora Coopera ve světle literární ekokritiky

Ekokritika a fáze uvědomění v české literatuře

Lumberjanes e Hilda, serie a fumetti scout tra ecocritica ed ecofemminismo