Cheryll glotfelty literary studies in an age of environmental crisis
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This book aims to make connections between two groups that have worked in relative isolation — human health scientists on the one hand, and ecosystem health scientists on the other. While bridging the gap between human and ecosystem sciences is clearly a step in the right direction, there exists a vastly wider chasm which divides all the sciences from the humanities. As C. P. Snow argued in his renowned lecture entitled The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution’ (1959), ‘Literary intellectuals at one pole — at the other scientists . . . Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.’
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Glotfelty C. (1996) Ecocriticism: literary studies in an age of environmental crisis. In: Di Giulio R.T., Monosson E. (eds) Interconnections Between Human and Ecosystem Health. Chapman &