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John Clare and Enclosure Again: Against Simplification (2024)
Book Chapter
Clark, T. (2024). John Clare and Enclosure Again: Against Simplification. In M. Demson, & R. Hewitt (Eds.), Law, Equity and Romantic Writing: Seeking Justice in the Age of Revolutions (238-257). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

This paper offers a revised overview of the now distortedly over-familiar topic of John Clare and enclosure, qualifying the emerging critical truism that this human injustice was also a fierce assault on biodiversity, one which can be immediately ass... Read More about John Clare and Enclosure Again: Against Simplification.

Scale as a force of deconstruction. (2018)
Book Chapter
Clark, T. (2018). Scale as a force of deconstruction. In M. Fritsch, P. Lynes, & D. Wood (Eds.), Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy. Fordham University Press

‘But the real problem is….’: The Chameleonic Insidiousness of ‘Overpopulation’ in the Environmental Humanities (2016)
Journal Article
Clark, T. (2016). ‘But the real problem is….’: The Chameleonic Insidiousness of ‘Overpopulation’ in the Environmental Humanities. Africa Bibliography, 38(1), 7-26. https://doi.org/10.3366/olr.2016.0177

This paper offers an overview of the chameleonic nature of overpopulation as an environmental issue, and of the relative evasion of population as an issue in ecocriticism and elsewhere: the very multiplicity of environmental factors means that popula... Read More about ‘But the real problem is….’: The Chameleonic Insidiousness of ‘Overpopulation’ in the Environmental Humanities.

Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept. (2015)
Book
Clark, T. (2015). Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept. Bloomsbury

The twenty-first century has seen an increased awareness of the forms of environmental destruction that cannot immediately be seen, localised or, by some, even acknowledged. Ecocriticism on the Edge explores the possibility of a new mode of critical... Read More about Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept..

Climate Change, Scale, and Literary Criticism: A Conversation (2015)
Journal Article
Clarke, M. T., Halpern, F., & Clark, T. Climate Change, Scale, and Literary Criticism: A Conversation. ariel: A Review of International English Literature, 46(3), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1353/ari.2015.0025

This conversation among the editors of ARIEL and Timothy Clark addresses his 2012 essay, “Derangements of Scale,” published in Telemorphosis: Theory in the Era of Climate Change. In his essay, Clark suggests that scale effects play an important role... Read More about Climate Change, Scale, and Literary Criticism: A Conversation.

What on World is the Earth? The Anthropocene and Fictions of the World (2013)
Journal Article
Clark, T. (2013). What on World is the Earth? The Anthropocene and Fictions of the World. Oxford Literary Review, 35(1), 5-24. https://doi.org/10.3366/olr.2013.0054

Timothy Clark, ‘What on World is the Earth?: The Anthropocene and Fictions of the World’ This paper develops a concept of the terrestrial as an abyssal boundary to the thinkable, looking to David Wood’s deconstructive eco-phenomenology. The main sect... Read More about What on World is the Earth? The Anthropocene and Fictions of the World.

“Phenomenology,” (2013)
Book Chapter
Clark, T. (2013). “Phenomenology,”. In G. Garrard (Ed.), Oxford Guide to Ecocriticism. Oxford University Press

Scale (2012)
Book Chapter
Clark, T. (2012). Scale. In T. Cohen (Ed.), Telemorphosis : theory in the era of climate change (148-166). Open Humanities Press ; University of Michigan Library

The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment. (2011)
Book
Clark, T. (2011). The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment. Cambridge University Press

The degrading environment of the planet is something that touches everyone. This book offers an introductory overview of literary and cultural criticism that concerns environmental crisis in some form. Both as a way of reading texts and as a theoreti... Read More about The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and the Environment..

“Climate and Catastrophe: A Lost Opening? (2011)
Book Chapter
Clark, T. (2011). “Climate and Catastrophe: A Lost Opening?. In S. Gaston, & I. Maclachlan (Eds.), Reading Derrida’s Of Grammatology, (161-167). Continuum

Deconstruction, Environmentalism, and Climate Change (The Oxford Literary Review) (2010)
Journal Article
(editor), T. C. (2010). Deconstruction, Environmentalism, and Climate Change (The Oxford Literary Review). Africa Bibliography, 32(1), 131-149. https://doi.org/10.3366/olr.2010.0009

This paper considers the deconstructive force of climate change in intellectual and political and intellectual life, especially as its undermines and challenges the terms of consumer democracy and the liberal tradition in political thought. The first... Read More about Deconstruction, Environmentalism, and Climate Change (The Oxford Literary Review).

Some Climate Change Ironies: Deconstruction, Environmental Politics and the Closure of Ecocriticism (2010)
Journal Article
Clark, T. (2010). Some Climate Change Ironies: Deconstruction, Environmental Politics and the Closure of Ecocriticism. Oxford Literary Review, 32(1), 131-149. https://doi.org/10.3366/olr.2010.0009

This paper considers the deconstructive force of climate change in intellectual and political life, especially as it undermines and challenges the terms of consumer democracy and the liberal tradition in political thought. The first half of the paper... Read More about Some Climate Change Ironies: Deconstruction, Environmental Politics and the Closure of Ecocriticism.