Hubert Zapf
Biographic Data
| ID | 1593326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hubert Zapf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hubert |
| FAMILY NAME | Zapf |
| SIGNATURE | ZAPF H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Augsburg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 12 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Cultural ecology in decolonial perspective
Cultural ecology and decolonial ecology are current directions in environmental literary studies whose mutual relationship has not yet been adequately addressed. The article brings cultural ecology into critical conversation with a decolonial perspective that has been gaining increasing attention in the environmental humanities. It briefly outlines some of the basic premises of a cultural ecology of literature; then argues that in spite of differ…
Alfred Hornung: An Inspiring Transnational Scholar
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The “Ecological Imperative” in Literary Studies
The ‘ecological imperative’ (Hans Jonas) manifests in different ways according to the linguistic, generic, medial, and semiotic conditions in which it is communicated. This is also true of creative forms of cultural practice such as literature and the aesthetic. The ecological imperative in literature is conveyed not primarily through its discursive content but through the narrative, formal, and aesthetic procedures themselves that literary texts…
Posthumanism or Ecohumanism? Environmental Studies in the Anthropocene
The paper discusses two of the currently most influential discourses in the environmental humanities, posthumanism and the Anthropocene, in the light of the concept of ‘ecohumanism’ suggested by the title of the present new journal. This concept resonates with the approach of a cultural ecology in literary studies and the environmental humanities, which takes an in-between stance between a radically ecocentric posthumanism and a narrowly anthropo…
George Washington, Frederick the Great, and the Emergence of National Literary Cultures: A Transatlantic Comparison
This essay offers a comparison of two central political and cultural figures in transatlantic history and culture, George Washington and Frederick the Great. 1 It places them in the context of developments in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, which saw the emergence of new nation states and, in their wake, the emergence of new national literary cultures. The United States and Prussia were newly founded nation states that had not…
Environmental Humanities: Beiträge zur geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Umweltforschung
The environmental humanities comprise a large, growing, and diverse body of inquiry spanning a multitude of academic disciplines. Along with the social sciences, these humanities disciplines have long been devoted to the study of human affairs, leaving the natural sciences to study things such as ecology, ice sheets, and climate. Broadly, where humanities disciplines differ from social science ones is as follows: unlike, say, economics, which tre…
Environmental humanities: An Emerging Field of Transdisciplinary Research
Humanity is facing a global crisis that has been brought about by the domestication, exploitation and degradation of the natural environment. This crisis is closely interconnected with social structures and processes, and with cultural representations ‐ thus with history and politics, too. Therefore, historically, politically, aesthetically, and ethically reflective approaches that require the expertise of the humanities and social sciences are e…
Editors’ Preface
Introduction
Zones of Focused Ambiguity in Siri Hustvedt’s Works: Interdisciplinary Essays
This collection comprises essays from various interdisciplinary perspectives – e.g. literary scholarship, intermediality, art history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and medicine – to analyze and interpret the fictional and non-fictional works by Siri Hustvedt, an author whose reputation and public presence have been growing steadily in the 21st century and who is recognized as one of the most widely read and appreciated contemporary American writer…
Cultural Ecology of Literature – Literature as Cultural Ecology
Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts
Drawing on the latest debates in ecocritical theory and sustainability studies, Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts outlines a new approach to the reading of literary texts. Hubert Zapf considers the ways in which literature operates as a form of cultural ecology, using language, imagination and critique to challenge and transform cultural narratives of humanity’s relationship to nature. In this way, the book demonstrates the import…
Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology
Englische Literaturgeschichte
English and American Studies
Englische Literaturgeschichte (German Edition)
Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte
Ständig wachsende Vielfalt der amerikanischen Literatur. Von den Puritanern bis zur Postmoderne beleuchtet das beliebte Standardwerk alle wichtigen Autoren und ihre Werke. Ausführliche Porträts der in
Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte (German Edition)
'Ethical Turn'?: Geisteswissenschaften in neuer Verantwortung
Literary Ecology and the Ethics of Texts
Literary Ecology and the Ethics of Texts Hubert Zapf (bio) I. Ecology and Ethics Among the various "turns" in recent literary and cultural studies, the ecological turn and the ethical turn are perhaps the most conspicuous. They have both opened up promising new areas of transdisciplinary inquiry and are, in many ways, at the heart of current trends in the humanities. In my paper, I would like to look more closely at the relationship between ecolo…
The State of Ecocriticism and the Function of Literature as Cultural Ecology
It is the thesis of this paper that the function and productivity of imaginative literature, which has evolved as a special form of textuality in the course of cultural evolution, can be newly illuminated by considering it as a specifically powerful form of symbolically staging and exploring the interrelationship between cultural and natural processes and energies. In this view, literature functions like an ecological force within the larger syst…
Literature and Ecology: Introductory Remarks on a New Paradigm of Literary Studies
This special issue of Anglia covers a new direction within Anglo-American literary and cultural studies, which has come to the fore since the 1990s and has been known under the name of Ecocriticism or Literary Ecology. To some extent, this new research paradigm is related to postmodernism, but at the same time its assumptions are at odds with some long-cherished premises of postmodern theory. By entering a dialogue with ecology, literary studies …
Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte
Wie das Land, so die Literatur: Die vielschichtigen Strömungen der amerikanischen Literatur stehen ganz im Zeichen von Multikultur. Welche Elemente charakterisieren die indianische, afro-, jüdisch- un
Englische Literaturgeschichte
Eine literarische Geschichte. Von Beowulf und Shakespeare über Defoe, Wordsworth, Austen und Dickens, Yeats, Eliot und Orwell bis zu Woolf, Pinter und Rushdie stellt die Literaturgeschichte alle große
Englische Literaturgeschichte
Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts
Drawing on the latest debates in ecocritical theory and sustainability studies, Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts outlines a new approach to the reading of literary texts. Hubert Zapf considers the ways in which literature operates as a form of cultural ecology, using language, imagination and critique to challenge and transform cultural narratives of humanity’s relationship to nature. In this way, the book demonstrates the import…
Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology
Literary Ecology and the Ethics of Texts
Literary Ecology and the Ethics of Texts Hubert Zapf (bio) I. Ecology and Ethics Among the various "turns" in recent literary and cultural studies, the ecological turn and the ethical turn are perhaps the most conspicuous. They have both opened up promising new areas of transdisciplinary inquiry and are, in many ways, at the heart of current trends in the humanities. In my paper, I would like to look more closely at the relationship between ecolo…
Ecocriticism, Cultural Ecology, and Literary Studies
Key words: German ecocriticism, cultural ecology, Peter Finke, Gregory Bateson, cultural ecosystem, cultural self-renewal, Turkish ecocriticism, discursive representation Ecocriticism is gaining increasing international recognition as a field of research that opens up new perspectives reaffirming the relevance and responsibility of the humanities, in an age of pressing social and political problems seemingly incapable of purely technological and …
Environmental humanities: An Emerging Field of Transdisciplinary Research
Humanity is facing a global crisis that has been brought about by the domestication, exploitation and degradation of the natural environment. This crisis is closely interconnected with social structures and processes, and with cultural representations ‐ thus with history and politics, too. Therefore, historically, politically, aesthetically, and ethically reflective approaches that require the expertise of the humanities and social sciences are e…
Literature and Ecology: Introductory Remarks on a New Paradigm of Literary Studies
This special issue of Anglia covers a new direction within Anglo-American literary and cultural studies, which has come to the fore since the 1990s and has been known under the name of Ecocriticism or Literary Ecology. To some extent, this new research paradigm is related to postmodernism, but at the same time its assumptions are at odds with some long-cherished premises of postmodern theory. By entering a dialogue with ecology, literary studies …
Ecocriticism, Cultural Ecology, and Literary Studies
Key words: German ecocriticism, cultural ecology, Peter Finke, Gregory Bateson, cultural ecosystem, cultural self-renewal, Turkish ecocriticism, discursive representation Ecocriticism is gaining increasing international recognition as a field of research that opens up new perspectives reaffirming the relevance and responsibility of the humanities, in an age of pressing social and political problems seemingly incapable of purely technological and …
Englische Literaturgeschichte
Englische Literaturgeschichte
Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte
Der Band gibt einen Überblick über die amerikanische Literaturgeschichte von den Anfängen bis zur Postmoderne. Die gewachsene internationale Bedeutung der Literatur Nordamerikas wird an deren wichtigs
Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte.
Englische Literaturgeschichte
Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte
Wie das Land, so die Literatur: Die vielschichtigen Strömungen der amerikanischen Literatur stehen ganz im Zeichen von Multikultur. Welche Elemente charakterisieren die indianische, afro-, jüdisch- un
Englische Literaturgeschichte
Eine literarische Geschichte. Von Beowulf und Shakespeare über Defoe, Wordsworth, Austen und Dickens, Yeats, Eliot und Orwell bis zu Woolf, Pinter und Rushdie stellt die Literaturgeschichte alle große
The State of Ecocriticism and the Function of Literature as Cultural Ecology
It is the thesis of this paper that the function and productivity of imaginative literature, which has evolved as a special form of textuality in the course of cultural evolution, can be newly illuminated by considering it as a specifically powerful form of symbolically staging and exploring the interrelationship between cultural and natural processes and energies. In this view, literature functions like an ecological force within the larger syst…
Literature and Ecology: Introductory Remarks on a New Paradigm of Literary Studies
This special issue of Anglia covers a new direction within Anglo-American literary and cultural studies, which has come to the fore since the 1990s and has been known under the name of Ecocriticism or Literary Ecology. To some extent, this new research paradigm is related to postmodernism, but at the same time its assumptions are at odds with some long-cherished premises of postmodern theory. By entering a dialogue with ecology, literary studies …
Literary Ecology and the Ethics of Texts
Literary Ecology and the Ethics of Texts Hubert Zapf (bio) I. Ecology and Ethics Among the various "turns" in recent literary and cultural studies, the ecological turn and the ethical turn are perhaps the most conspicuous. They have both opened up promising new areas of transdisciplinary inquiry and are, in many ways, at the heart of current trends in the humanities. In my paper, I would like to look more closely at the relationship between ecolo…
'Ethical Turn'?: Geisteswissenschaften in neuer Verantwortung
Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte
Ständig wachsende Vielfalt der amerikanischen Literatur. Von den Puritanern bis zur Postmoderne beleuchtet das beliebte Standardwerk alle wichtigen Autoren und ihre Werke. Ausführliche Porträts der in
Amerikanische Literaturgeschichte (German Edition)
Englische Literaturgeschichte
English and American Studies
Englische Literaturgeschichte (German Edition)
Editors’ Preface
Introduction
Zones of Focused Ambiguity in Siri Hustvedt’s Works: Interdisciplinary Essays
This collection comprises essays from various interdisciplinary perspectives – e.g. literary scholarship, intermediality, art history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and medicine – to analyze and interpret the fictional and non-fictional works by Siri Hustvedt, an author whose reputation and public presence have been growing steadily in the 21st century and who is recognized as one of the most widely read and appreciated contemporary American writer…
Cultural Ecology of Literature – Literature as Cultural Ecology
Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts
Drawing on the latest debates in ecocritical theory and sustainability studies, Literature as Cultural Ecology: Sustainable Texts outlines a new approach to the reading of literary texts. Hubert Zapf considers the ways in which literature operates as a form of cultural ecology, using language, imagination and critique to challenge and transform cultural narratives of humanity’s relationship to nature. In this way, the book demonstrates the import…
Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology
Environmental humanities: An Emerging Field of Transdisciplinary Research
Humanity is facing a global crisis that has been brought about by the domestication, exploitation and degradation of the natural environment. This crisis is closely interconnected with social structures and processes, and with cultural representations ‐ thus with history and politics, too. Therefore, historically, politically, aesthetically, and ethically reflective approaches that require the expertise of the humanities and social sciences are e…
Environmental Humanities: Beiträge zur geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Umweltforschung
The environmental humanities comprise a large, growing, and diverse body of inquiry spanning a multitude of academic disciplines. Along with the social sciences, these humanities disciplines have long been devoted to the study of human affairs, leaving the natural sciences to study things such as ecology, ice sheets, and climate. Broadly, where humanities disciplines differ from social science ones is as follows: unlike, say, economics, which tre…
Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Ecology (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Biology (7 works) · Ecocriticism (7 works) · Environmental ethics (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Political science (7 works)