Abstract
In this chapter, I provide a theoretical overview of the newly emerging field of biosemiotic criticism (aka “biosemiotic literary criticism”). I discuss (1) how that field relates to literary criticism and to ecological criticism (ecocriticism), (2) what concepts and principles from biosemiotics (and from other fields with parallel research agendas) inform biosemiotic criticism, and (3) what approaches practitioners of biosemiotic criticism might take to their subject matter, including especially the use of semiotic modeling techniques drawn from MST (Modeling Systems Theory) (Sebeok, Marcel D, The forms of meaning: Modeling systems theory and semiotic analysis. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin/New York, 2000) and from Maran (Green Lett Stud Ecocritic 18(3):297–311, 2014a).
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