%0 Journal Article 
%A Małecki, Wojciech
%A Woźniak, Jarosław
%T Ecocriticism in Poland: then and now
%D 2020
%@ 2171-9594
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/45527
%X The aim of this paper is to present a synoptic picture of the development and current state of ecocriticism in Poland. Understood in the generic sense of the study of literature and environment, ecocriticism began in Poland already in the 1970s. It has since then generated its own original tradition. Understood in the specific historical sense of a field devoted to the study of literature and environment that was consolidated in the 1990s in the USA and the UK and then expanded both in disciplinary and national terms, ecocriticism was imported to Poland only in the beginning of the 21st century, but it has managed to generate its own tradition as well. For a while, both these currents of Polish ecocriticism ran in parallel to one another, but they have recently merged, stimulating new exciting developments. The paper delineates these historical trajectories and recent developments alike. It also shows how today’s Polish ecocriticism contributes to ecocriticism globally, not only by offering its own culturally unique perspective and archives, but also by proposing new methodologies, including so-called empirical ecocriticism, an emerging field that originates in part from Poland.

%K Ecocriticism
%K Animal studies
%K History of ecocriticism
%K Polish ecocriticism
%K Comparative ecocriticism
%K Empirical ecocriticism
%K New materialism
%K Ecocrítica
%K Estudios animales
%K Historia de la ecocrítica
%K Ecocrítica polaca
%K Ecocrítica comparativa
%K Ecocrítica empírica
%K Nuevo materialismo
%K Literatura
%K Literature
%K Medio ambiente
%K Environmental science
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