Ecocriticism&

Critical Insight.

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This is Bhumi Dangi. Roll no.8 Paper 7 – Literary Theory & criticism: The 20th Western & Indian Poetics – 2. Unit no. 5 – A Glossary of silected literary terms.

Submitted to -

The Department of English,MK Bhavnagar university.

Definition: "Ecocriticism is the

study of the relationship

between literature and the physical

environment….takes an earth-centered approach to literary

studies.

First mentioned

› William Rueckert may have been the first person to use the term Ecocriticism. In 1978, Rueckert published an essay titled 

‘Literature and Ecology: An Experiment in Ecocriticism’ . His intention was to focus on “the application of ecology and ecological concepts to the study of literature.”

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In most literary theory "the world" is synonymous with society--the social sphere. Ecocriticism expands the

notion of "the world" to include the entire ecosphere.

"Everything is connected to everything else”

-Barry Commoner's first law of ecology,

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Ecocritics and theorists pauses questions like

this -

› How is nature represented in this sonnet?

› What role does the physical setting play in the plot of this novel?

› Are the values expressed in this play consistent with ecological wisdom?

› How do our metaphors of the land influence the way we treat it?

› Do men write about nature differently than women do?

› How has the concept of wilderness changed over time?

› What bearing might the science of ecology have on literary studies?

› What cross-fertilization is possible between literary studies and environmental discourse in related disciplines such as history, philosophy, psychology, art history, and ethics?

William Wordsworth› Concept of ‘Mother

Nature’, all good things are indicated about the lap of nature.

› “My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky:

So was it when my life began”

Depiction of nature in works of two differnt

poets Robert Frost› He sees nature as

crual thing who readily deconstruct the lives of creature.

› “some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice”

Observation › Everybody sees the thing with

their own perspectives. We are bound to keep the things in mind with concept that whether it is harmful to us or helpful to us.

› If we go back to the age of dinosaur, we see dinosaur as our enemy. But they also were the creation of nature.

ConclusionThe nature of

thinking & criticising things, itself is the

problem and itself is the solution of the

problems.

Credits› Glossary of Literary terms by M.H.

Abrahams Geoffrey Galt Harpham› http://www.ecobooks.com/books/e

cocrit.htm› http://

www.vcu.edu/engweb/eng385/ecocrit.htm

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