Water: Water in the Arts/Humanities

"Eco-criticism is a study of culture and cultural products (art works, writings, scientific theories, etc.) that is in some way connected with the human relationship to the natural world." (ASLE)

Key Journals:

• The Journal of Ecocriticism: A New Journal of Nature, Society, and Literature
• Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment - (free individual registration required)

Research Databases:

Ecocriticism is an interdisciplinary field.  See the Research Guides to learn about the different disciplinary databases we offer.

For starters:

• Art Databases - search one or more for art criticism
• MLA International Bibliography - primary tool for literary criticism and film criticism
• JSTOR - interdisciplinary full text database (older issues only)
• Project Muse - interdisciplinary full text database
• Web of Science - interdisciplinary database, strong in the sciences
• Google Scholar - find books, scholarly articles and grey literature (set scholar preferences to link to UW Libraries materials)

Advanced Search | UW Libraries Search

Search UW Worldcat by keywords and narrow to relevant subject headings. 

Sample searches:

• Ecocriticism
• Water in literature
• water AND caribbean literature
• water AND ecology AND art
• Water in art
• Water--Fiction
• Water--Religious aspects