different between ecology vs ecocriticism

English

Alternative forms

• oecology, œcology (archaic)

Etymology

Calque of German Ökologie (coined by Ernst Haeckel), from Ancient Greek ????? (oîkos, “house”) + -????? (-logía, “study of”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??k?l?d?i/, /??k?l?d?i/
• (US) enPR: ?k?l?j?, IPA^(key): /i.?k?.l?.d?i/
• Hyphenation: ecol?ogy
• Rhymes: -?l?d?i

Noun

ecology (countable and uncountable, plural ecologies)

1. (biology) The branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• ecology block

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of ecology

References

• ecology at OneLook Dictionary Search
• ecology in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• "ecology" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 110.
• ecology in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Further reading

• ecology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

eco- +? criticism

Noun

ecocriticism (usually uncountable, plural ecocriticisms)

1. The interdisciplinary study of literature and ecology.
   • 1998, Patrick D Murphy, Terry Gifford, Katsunori Yamazato, Literature of nature: an international sourcebook

     A chapter on North Woods writers is an ideal project in which to engage the fundamental issues of ecocriticism.

   • 2003, Roger Thompson, J Scott Bryson, Twentieth-century American nature writers: prose

     The emergence of ecocriticism as a distinct field of inquiry parallels the reemergence of literary critic as cultural activist […]

   • 2007, Fiona Becket, Terry Gifford, Culture, creativity and environment: new environmentalist criticism

     In this light, the current volume is a work of ecocriticism, although not all the contributors would wish to define themselves first and foremost as ecocritics.

Derived terms

• ecocritic
• ecocritical