ecocriticism
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- Created on: 22-04-20 21:16
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- Ecocritical
- In which writers focus on the relationship between literature and the physical environment
- Earth is seen as being central to literature as a whole
- To ecocritics, if we don't have a planet to live on, then all other human concerns are futile.
- Earth is seen as being central to literature as a whole
- the focus can be the following:
- The different ways in which women and men write about nature
- How the wilderness of nature has been represented over time
- How language has been used to convey concerns about the environment
- It is somewhat modern- it gained most momentum during the 1990s when scientists began to understand and acknowledge the length of the environmental crisis
- Ecocritical literature try to showcase the readers how their actions impact the environment
- The following questions are often asked:
- What effect does the physical environment have in the plot of this novel?
- How can the nature genre be characterised as a genre?
- as well as race, genre and class, can place be considered a new critical category?
- In what ways has literature affected humankind's relationship with nature?
- Pastoral has three different definitions:
- 1. refers to poems or dramas in which shepherds communicated with idealised views of the countryside.
- 2. refers to literature that describes the countryside with an explicit/implicit contrast to the urban areas.
- 3. A negative definition- it refers to an over idealised perception of the countryside.
- Pastoral literature has been scrutinised for portraying a false ideology of nature
- Eco feminists express the view that the exploitation of the earth is the same mind-set that results in the exploitation of minorities and women
- To eco feminists, there would be no point in liberating women if there was no unpolluted planet
- To modern critics, pastoral poetry simply covers up the real extent of the oppression and exploitation in pastoral economies
- In which writers focus on the relationship between literature and the physical environment
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