Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative
Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative
By Alexa Weik von Mossner. Ohio State University Press: Columbus, OH 2017.
Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative explores our emotional engagement with environmental narrative. Focusing on the American cultural context, Alexa Weik von Mossner develops an ecocritical approach that draws on the insights of affective science and cognitive narratology. This approach helps to clarify how we interact with environmental narratives in ways that are both biologically universal and culturally specific. In doing so, it pays particular ...