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April 27, 2020

The Forest and the EcoGothic: The Deep Dark Woods in the Popular Imagination

Tidwell Christy

By Elizabeth Parker. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 

The Forest and the EcoGothic offers the first full length study on the pervasive archetype of The Gothic Forest in Western culture. The idea of the forest as deep, dark, and dangerous has an extensive history and continues to resonate throughout contemporary popular culture. The Forest and the EcoGothic examines both why we fear the forest and how exactly these fears manifest in our stories. It draws on and furthers the nascent field of the ecoGothic, which seeks to explore the ...

Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of Robert Frost (MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature series)

Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of Robert Frost (MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature series)

Proposals are invited for a volume in the MLA’s Approaches to Teaching World Literature series entitled Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of Robert Frost.

Essays in this volume could address teaching Frost’s work by focusing on topics such as science, Darwinism and belief, gender relations/gender conflict, rural/urban life, politics, race/racism, traditional media/new media, the natural and/or the supernatural, the formal innovations Frost made with dramatic monologue, the sound of sense, or Frost’s engagement with traditional verse ...