Serenella Iovino, Ecologia letteraria E altri scritti di ecocritica, 2025

The essay Literary Ecology redefines human beings as “narrating animals” whose cultural production is not a spiritual abstraction, but a direct expression of their biological and material evolution. Through literature, we are called upon to develop an ecological imagination capable of transcending species boundaries to give voice to the “other world” and marginalised subjects, whether human or non-human. Pioneering in bringing ecocriticism to Italy in 2006, the text now proposes a vision of ecology not only as environmental protection, but as a cultural and political paradigm indispensable for interpreting the urgencies of the present.