This book is an authentic collection of critical essays compiled as part of response to a situation that is hazardous to life on our planet the current ecological crisis. Its twelve chapters innovatively engage with multiple facets of the intricate relationship between literature and ecology, covering texts, genres, movements, philosophies, and contexts spanning a long period of historical time and a variety of milieus. The volume adopts an approach that unravels the premises and assumptions that sustain the modern world view and contemporary knowledge systems.
Jibu Mathew George is Professor in the Department of English Literature, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. He is author of three books: Ulysses Quotdinus: James Joyce's Inverse Histories of the Everyday (2016); The Ontology of Gods: An Account of Enchantment, Disenchantment, and Re-Enchantment (2017); and Philosophical Meta-Reflections on Literary Studies: Why Do Things with Texts, and What to Do with Them? (2019). He is also the editor of a three-volume international anthology of essays entitled De Natura Fidei: Rethinking Religion across Disciplinary Boundaries (2021).Mathew John Kokkatt is Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies at The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. He is the author of The Selected Poems of Wilhelm Busch in Malayalam (Translation 2020). He has also co-edited an anthology of Malayalam stories and poems translated into German, entitled Welche Farbe hat die Liebe? (2006), and two other volumes: Six Stories of Heinrich Böll in Five Indian Languages (2018) and Twentieth Century German Fiction: An Interdisciplinary Evaluation (2020).
