Fearanalysis and Ecocriticism in the Light of Terrorcriticism

Abstract

After a brief review of the author's conceptualization and praxis of fearanalysis (different but analogous to psychoanalysis), he applied this method to ecocriticism (especially, Estok's "Ecophobia Hypothesis) in the "Age of Terror." A study of books using "Age of Terror" in their title and other discourses on "terror" (especially, but not only post-9/11), convinced the author that there was need for terrorcriticism a new branch of literary criticism....