Snyder’s Experimentations with Post—Romantic Ecological Form

2013 ◽  
pp. 133-154
Author(s):  
Paige Tovey
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Form

George Eliot's Estuarial Form

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-217
Author(s):  
Kyle McAuley
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Formal Model ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Ecological System ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Mill On The Floss ◽  
Ecological Form ◽  
Near Future

This essay recasts the central locale of The Mill on the Floss in order to show how the geography and society of George Eliot's novel function together as a conjoined ecological system. I show that the port at St. Ogg's is set on an estuary, and from this observation, I claim that the entanglement of multiple estuarial waters provides a formal model for the overall ecology of the novel. Referring to this system as “ecological form,” the essay shows how the characters’ misunderstanding of the estuarial nature of the St. Ogg's hydrography is the primary source of the communal divisions with which the novel is so famously riven. In so doing, this essay makes two methodological interventions, one local, and one slightly more global. In the first, I show how unsticking the progression of our criticism from that of a novel's plot—especially one with such a catastrophically strong telos as Mill’s—can allow us to view form and, particularly, geography as newly vital to literary history. This leads to the second intervention, in which I suggest that reading practices in an age of environmental collapse should look beyond disaster itself and toward affected communities’ systemic ties to those extraneous systems—economic, legal, imperial—that aid and abet disasters elsewhere and even ignore the potential for catastrophic reoccurrence in the near future. In other words, reading for water readily yields a wide-ranging map of global capitalism perhaps unexpectedly centered on a small town in Lincolnshire.

Ecological Form

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan K. Hensley ◽  
Philip Steer ◽  
Lynn Voskuil ◽  
Jesse Oak Taylor ◽  
Teresa Shewry ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Form

scholarly journals Ecological form: system and aesthetics in the age of empire

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-245
Author(s):  
Daniel Williams
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Form ◽  
Form System

scholarly journals AN ABERRANT ECOLOGICAL FORM OF UNIO COMPLANATUS DILLWYN

Science ◽  
1915 ◽  
Vol 42 (1086) ◽  
pp. 579-580
Author(s):  
S. G. Rich
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Form

scholarly journals STRATEGI PENINGKATAN RESILIENSI MASYARAKAT PESISIR TERHADAP TEKANAN SOSIO-EKOLOGIS (Studi Kasus Pesisir Kota Semarang)

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agus Susanto
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Strategies ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Factory Workers ◽  
Time Duration ◽  
Global Warming Impact ◽  
The Road ◽  
Coastal City ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Ecological Form

Popularity of the Coastal of Semarang city coused of rob that has occurred since the 1970s, and lately getting worse in terms of both area and time (duration) puddle. This is the result of global warming impact on sea level rise. In addition, the coastal city of Semarang was under pressure socio-ecological form of floods, land use, soil degradation, water use conflicts and water pollution. As for the most vulnerable population exposed to pressures socio-ecological are: fishermen / farmers, factory workers, employees, and services. Based on these reasons, done the research resilience of communities from coastal of Semarang city with the aim of knowing the forms of resilience and treatment strategies based on the dimensions of sustainability (ecological, economic and social). The method used is descriptive explorative, data collection with quantitative and qualitative approaches. Analysis of the data used were: descriptive, vulnerability and resilience refers to the IPCC (2001), whereas the strategy to improve resilience using Multi Criteria Decission Making (MCDM) with weighting. The result of analysis is, there are, 3 (three) options strategies for improving resilience, namely: (a) the development of human resources (HR) is through community empowerment, (b) provision of incentives that can be done directly in the form of assistance, and indirectly in the form of regulating the use land, the improvement of facilities and infrastructure, as well as the improvement of social infrastructure, and (c) the manufacture dike embankment can be making a dike in the side of the river and the elevation of the road that can touch on the fundamental aspects of the physical and ecological. Pesisir Semarang populer karena rob yang sudah terjadi sejak tahun 1970an, dan akhir-akhir ini bertambah parah baik dari segi luasan maupun waktu (durasi) genangannya. Hal ini akibat pemanasan global yang berdampak pada kenaikan permukaan laut. Disamping itu, pesisir Kota Semarang mengalami tekanan sosio-ekologi yang berupa: banjir, alih fungsi lahan, penurunan tanah, konflik penggunaan air, dan pencemaran perairan. Adapun kelompok masyarakat yang rentan terpapar tekanan sosio-ekologi adalah: nelayan/petani, buruh pabrik, karyawan, dan jasa. Untuk itu dilakukan penelitian Resiliensi (ketahanan) masyarakat pesisir Kota Semarang dengan tujuan mengetahui bentuk-bentuk resiliensi dan strategi penanganan berdasarkan dimensi keberlanjutan (ekologi, ekonomi, dan sosial). Metode yang digunakan adalah deskriptif eksploratif, pengambilan data dengan pendekatan kuantitatif dan kualitatif. Analisis data yang digunakan adalah: deskriptif, kerentanan, dan resiliensi yang mengacu pada IPCC (2001), sedangkan untuk strategi peningkatan resiliensi menggunakan Multi Criteria Decission Making (MCDM) dengan pembobotan. Hasil analisis: terdapat 3 (tiga) pilihan strategi peningkatan resiliensi yaitu: (a) pengembangan sumberdaya manusia (SDM), yaitu melalui pemberdayaan masyarakat, (b) pemberian insentif yang dapat dilakukan secara langsung, yaitu berupa pemberian bantuan dan tidak langsung yang berbentuk pengaturan penggunaan lahan, peningkatan sarana dan prasarana, serta perbaikan infrastruktur sosial, dan (c) pembuatan tanggul, dapat berupa pembuatan tanggul di sisi sungai dan peninggian jalan yang dapat menyentuh aspek mendasar pada sisi fisik dan ekologis.

“All Taken Together”: Ecological Form in Mrs. Dalloway

2013 ◽  
pp. 29-40
Author(s):  
Justyna Kostkowska
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Form

Ecological Form

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Form

Ecological Form

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
George Eliot ◽  
Joseph Conrad ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Victorian England ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
Industrial Novel ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
Joseph Dalton Hooker ◽  
Ecological Form

Victorian England was both the world’s first industrial society and its most powerful global empire. Ecological Form coordinates those facts to show how one version of the Anthropocene first emerged into visibility in the nineteenth century. Many of that era’s most sophisticated observers recognized that the systemic interconnections and global scale of both empire and ecology posed challenges best examined through aesthetic form. Using “ecological formalism” to open new dimensions to our understanding of the Age of Coal, contributors reconsider Victorian literary structures in light of environmental catastrophe; coordinate “natural” questions with social ones; and underscore the category of form—as built structure, internal organizing logic, and generic code—as a means for generating environmental and therefore political knowledge. Together these essays show how Victorian thinkers deployed an array of literary forms, from the elegy and the industrial novel to the utopian romance and the scientific treatise, to think interconnection at world scale. They also renovate our understanding of major writers like Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, John Ruskin, and Joseph Conrad, even while demonstrating the centrality of less celebrated figures, including Dinabandhu Mitra, Samuel Butler, and Joseph Dalton Hooker, to contemporary debates about the humanities and climate change. As the essays survey the circuits of dispossession linking Britain to the Atlantic World, Bengal, New Zealand, and elsewhere—and connecting the Victorian era to our own—they advance the most pressing argument of Ecological Form, which is that past thought can be a resource for reimagining the present.

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