Abstract：Scott Slovic takes American Western ecocriticism, especially the environmental literature of American Southwest, as an example to suggest how to explore the sense of place in the global context and how to expand the scope of ecocriticism. He puts forward two seemingly contradictory views on “place”: sense of place and sense of planet, insisting on a balance between the unique and the common, the local and the global, the human and the nonhuman. He believes that it is the duty for ecocriticism or environmental literary studies to work out the implications of these relationships.
2012, Vol. 14 
