Passing glories and romantic retrievals: avant-garde nostalgia and hedonist renewal/Kate Soper--Green things in the garbage: ecocritical gleaning in Walter Benjamin's arcades/Catriona Sandilands--Raymond Williams: materialism and ecocriticism/Martin Ryle--Sense of place and lieu de mémoire: a cultural memory approach to environmental texts/Axel Goodbody--From literary anthropology to cultural ecology: German ecocritical theory since Wolfgang Iser/Timo Müller--The social theory of Norbert Elias and the question of the nonhuman world/Linda Williams--From the modern to the ecological: Latour on Walden pond/Laura Dassow Walls--Martin Heidegger, DH Lawrence, and poetic attention to being/Trevor Norris--Merleau-Ponty's ecophenomenology/Louise Westling--Gernot Böhme's ecological aesthetics of atmosphere/Kate Rigby--Dialoguing with Bakhtin over our ethical responsibility to anothers/Patrick D. Murphy--Coexistence and coexistents: ecology without a world/Timothy Morton--The matter of texts: a material intertextuality and ecocritical engagements with the Bible/Anne Elvey--There can be no democracy without a culture of difference/Luce Irigaray--The ecological Irigaray?/Christopher Cohoon--Cybernetics and social systems theory/Hannes Bergthaller--Ecocentric postmodern theory: interrelations between ecological, quantum, and postmodern theories/Serpil Oppermann--Affinity studies and open systems: a non-equilibrium, ecocritical reading of Goethe's Faust/Heather I. Sullivan--Blake, Deleuze, and the emergence of ecological consciousness/Mark Lussier--The biosemiotic turn: Abduction, or, the nature of creative reason in nature and culture/Wendy Wheeler.