From Ego to Eco

Sabine Lenore Müller, Ph.D. (NUI Galway 2014), Zhejiang International Studies University, is Associate Professor of English Studies. She has presented papers, published articles and organised conferences focused on ecocriticism and environmental philosophy.Tina Karen Pusse, Dr.phil. (University of Cologne 2004), National University of Ireland, Galway, is a Lecturer of German Studies. She has published a monograph, articles, edited volumes and periodicals in the areas of gender studies, modern German poetry, autobiography, theory of laughter, and ecocriticism.

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresIntroductionSabine Lenore Müller and Tina-Karen Pusse Part 1: Ecocentric Ways of Being: Human-Nature Continuities in Philosophy and Poetry1 The Language of Nature: Non-differentiation and Concept Formation in Early Modern EmpiricismsAengus Daly2 Environmental Modernism: Ecocentric Conceptions of the Self and the Emotions in the Works of R.M. Rilke and W.B. Yeats Sabine Lenore Müller3 Hortus Deliciarum/Garden of Delights: A Somatic Interpretation Helen Phelan4 From Dead Letters to Living Writing: The Aesthetic of Life in Novalis Elisabeth JüttenPart 2: Ecocentric Dwelling: The Global and the Local5 A Voice from the Land: The Ecopoetics of a Gaeltacht Oral Poet Gearóid Denvir6 Murder in a Meadow: Environmental and Cultural Extinction in Cathal Ó Searcaigh’s “Scrúdú Coinsiasa Roimh Dhul Chun Suain” Lillis Ó Laoire7 “Poetry’s a Line of Defence”: Ecopoetry and Politics in the 21st Century Christian Schmitt-Kilb8 Greening Democracy: A Defence of Critical Political Theory Darrell ArnoldPart 3: Ecocentric Vision: Zoomorphism and Animal Perspectives9 Dark Ecology and Black Comedy in Patrick McGinley’s Foggage Maureen O’Connor10 Above, Below and Behind the Camera: The Perspective of Animals Karla McManusPart 4: Ecocentrism at the Limits: Animal Encounters11 Against Exuberant Ecocentrism: Kafka, Coetzee and Transformative Mimesis Roman BartoschIndex