Contents
Introduction: Toward an Integrated Approach to Environmental Narratives and Social Change
Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Alexa Weik von Mossner, W. P. Malecki, and Frank Hakemulder
Part I. Methods
1. Experimental Methods for the Environmental Humanities: Measuring Affects and Effects
W. P. Malecki
2. Qualitative Approaches to Empirical Ecocriticism: Understanding Multidimensional Concepts, Experiences, and Processes
Paul Sopcak and Nicolette Sopcak
3. Exploring the Environmental Humanities through Film Production
Rebecca Dirksen, Mark Pedelty, Yan Pang, and Elja Roy
Part II. Case Studies
4. Does Climate Fiction Work? An Experimental Test of the Immediate and Delayed Effects of Reading Cli-Fi
Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Abel Gustafson, Anthony Leiserowitz, Matthew H. Goldberg, Seth A. Rosenthal, and Matthew Ballew
5. The Roles of Exemplar Voice, Compassion, and Pity in Shaping Audience Responses to Environmental News Narratives
Jessica Gall Myrick and Mary Beth Oliver
6. The Reception of Radical Texts: The Complicated Case of Alice Walker's "Am I Blue?"
Alexa Weik von Mossner, W. P. Malecki, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Marcus Mayorga, and Paul Slovic
7. Screening Waste, Feeling Slow Violence: An Empirical Reception Study of the Environmental Documentary Plastic China
Nicolai Skiveren
8. All the World's a Warming Stage: Applied Theater, Climate Change, and the Art of Community-Based Assessments
Sara Warner and Jeremy Jimenez
9. Tracing the Language of Ecocriticism: Insights from an Automated Text Analysis of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
Scott Slovic and David M. Markowitz
Part III. Reflections
10. Empirical Ecocriticism and the Future of (Eco)Narratology
Ursula K. Heise
11. Two Cheers for Empirical Ecocriticism
Greg Garrard
12. Empirical Ecocriticism and Modes of Persuasion
David I. Hanauer
13. Stories about the Environment for Diverse Audiences: Insights from Environmental Communication
Helena Bilandzic
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index
