paper.7 criticism
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Ecocriticism&
Critical Insight.
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HELLO!
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.
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Definition: "Ecocriticism is the
study of the relationship
between literature and the physical
environment….takes an earth-centered approach to literary
studies.
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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?
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› 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?
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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”
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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.
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ConclusionThe nature of
thinking & criticising things, itself is the
problem and itself is the solution of the
problems.
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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
› Youtube.com
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