Interdisciplinary Research within Environmental Humanities: A Reading of Dan Brown’s Deception Point

Abstract

nterdisciplinary research is central to the ecocritical analysis in the 21st century. In this sense, those texts that have a strong ecological awareness call for more interdisciplinary-grounded knowledge on the part of the readers. They urge readers to draw on interdisciplinary insights for the purpose of ameliorating the understanding of the characters’ storyworld. It is imperative to remember that, from its inception in the 1990s, ecocriticism stresses its strategic adoption of interdisciplinary research in analysing literary and cultural texts. Ecocritics such as Scott Slovic, Ursula K. Heise and Timothy Clark among others stress the importance of interdisciplinary research in attempt to understand the complexities of the Anthropocene. The concept of the Anthropocene has emerged to capture the current environmental crisis. Thinking in the Anthropocene requires scientific inquiry to understand how geological strata functions since the scientific conceptualization of time and space is different from human-centred perceptions. As a consequence, the Anthropocene necessitates interdisciplinary analysis in attempt to understand the environmental crisis.