@article{019091b1-fa16-70c5-a7e7-977e26cfee12, author = {Łukasz Żurek}, title = {The Poem as a Drying River and Our Sensibility. On Contemporary Ecocriticism in Literary Studies}, journal = {Konteksty Kultury}, volume = {2024}, number = {Volume 21 Issue 1}, year = {2024}, issn = {2083-7658}, pages = {61-77},keywords = {ecocriticism; Walter Benn Michaels; climate crisis; Marxism}, abstract = {The article deals with the relationship between beliefs about the sources/causes of the climate crisis and ecocriticism in literary studies. The author emphasizes that literary studies, being a cultural practice, is not isolated from the ideological nature of contemporary reality. In his analysis, the author focuses on the visions of causality of a literary work and accounts on interpretation present in Polish ecocriticism. The works of Polish authors associated with ecocriticism provide material for the reconstruction of those beliefs.}, doi = {10.4467/23531991KK.24.009.19752}, url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/konteksty-kultury/article/wiersz-jak-wysychajaca-rzeka-i-nasza-wrazliwosc-o-wspolczesnej-ekokrytyce-w-badaniach-literackich} }