In her article "The Systemic Approach, Biosemiotic Theory, and Ecocide in Australia" Iris Ralph summarizes an argument in defense of disciplinarity ("openness from closure") that Cary Wolfe makes in What is Posthumanism? She also comments on an implicit argument that Wendy Wheeler makes in The Whole Creature: Complexity, Biosemiotics and the Evolution of Culture. As Ralph argues, Wheeler's impl...

Introduction. The transformation of the animal from the Other of Cartesian modernity to a central actor in late modern culture has been registered in recent literary and cultural studies, such as Huggan and Tiffin’s Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Literature, Animals, Environment and Philip Armstrong’s What Animals Mean in the Fiction of Modernity. Literary texts, as Armstrong claims, have for a lon...

Abstract To address a paucity of knowledge on way to enhance pedagogical content sustainability (PCKS), the authors study developed an ecocriticism course and investigated its impact English pre-service teachers' PCKS. A mixed-method convergent research design was employed. Forty-seven teachers at one education departments in Indonesia joined received pre- post-questionnaire survey They were al...