Empirical ecocriticism : environmental narratives for social change / Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, W. P. Malecki and Frank Hakemulder, editors.

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Title Page
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Contents
Introduction: Toward an Integrated Approach to Environmental Narratives and Social Change
Part I: Methods
1. Experimental Methods for the Environmental Humanities: Measuring Affects and Effects
2. Qualitative Approaches to Empirical Ecocriticism: Understanding Multidimensional Concepts, Experiences, and Processes
3. Exploring the Environmental Humanities through Film Production
Part II: Case Studies
4. Does Climate Fiction Work?: An Experimental Test of the Immediate and Delayed Effects of Reading Cli-Fi

5. The Roles of Exemplar Voice, Compassion, and Pity in Shaping Audience Responses to Environmental News Narratives
6. The Reception of Radical Texts: The Complicated Case of Alice Walker's "Am I Blue?"
7. Screening Waste, Feeling Slow Violence: An Empirical Reception Study of the Environmental Documentary Plastic China
8. All the World's a Warming Stage: Applied Theater, Climate Change, and the Art of Community-Based Assessments
9. Tracing the Language of Ecocriticism: Insights from an Automated Text Analysis of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment

Part III: Reflections
10. Empirical Ecocriticism and the Future of (Eco)Narratology
11. Two Cheers for Empirical Ecocriticism
12. Empirical Ecocriticism and Modes of Persuasion
13. Stories about the Environment for Diverse Audiences: Insights from Environmental Communication
Acknowledgments
Contributors