This presentation is based on Ecocriticism. Ecocriticism describes the environmental crisis.

1. Ecocriticism

2. Personal Details
● Name :- Payal Bambhaniya
● Paper no. :- 204
● Paper Name:- Criticism
● Roll no. :- 14
● Topic:- Ecocriticism
● Submitted to:- SMT S. B. Gardi Department of English,
MKBU.
● Batch:- M. A. Sem. 3 (2022-2024)

3. Points to Ponder
● What is Ecocriticism?
● Characteristics of Ecocriticism
● Ecocriticism in Indian Literature
● Nature and Culture
● Examples
● Conclusion

4. What is Ecocriticism ?
● Ecocriticism is a study of the relationship between
Literature and the physical environment.
● Just as feminist criticism examines language and
literature from a gender-conscious perspective, and
Marxist criticism brings an awareness of modes of
production and economic class to its reading of
texts.
● Ecocriticism takes an earth-centered approach to
literary studies.

5. Ecocriticism
● The term ‘Ecocriticism’ was first coined in 1978 by
William Rueckert in his essay ‘Literature and Ecology:
An Experiment in Ecocriticism.
● Ecocriticism also known as Environmental Criticism
and Green Studies.
● Ecocriticism designates the critical writings which
explore the relations between literature and the
biological and physical environment, conducted with
an acute awareness of the damage being wrought on
that environment by human activities.

6. Ecocriticism in Indian Literature
● Writers such as R. K. Narayan,
Raja Rao, Kamala Markandaya,
Amitav Ghosh and Anita Desai
have invoked nature and nature
related elements in their works.
● “The Hungry Tide” by Amitav
Ghosh and “The Inheritance of
Loss” by Kiran Desai’s Works
represents the issues related
human vs environment.

7. Characteristics of Ecocriticism
● Ecocriticism do not share a single theoretical perspective
but it's connection with environmental literature manifest a
wide range of traditional, poststructural, and postcolonial
points of view and modes of analysis.
● Ecocriticism is a critique of binaries such as Man/ Nature
or Culture/Nature, viewed as mutually exclusive
oppositions.
● Ecocriticism is the analysis of the differences in attitudes
toward the environment that are attributable to a writer's
race, ethnicity, social class and gender.

8. Nature and Culture
● Ecocriticism takes as it's subject the
interconnections between nature and Culture,
specially the culture artifacts of language and
literature. As a critical stance, it has one foot in
literature and the other on land.
● Areas:- 1. The Wilderness (e. g. desserts, oceans,
uninhabited continents)
● 2. ‘The scenic Sublime’ ( e. g. Forests, lakes,
mountains)

9. ● 3. ‘The Countryside’ ( e. g. Hills, Field, woods)
● 4. ‘The domestic picturesque’ e. g. Parks, gardens,
lanes)
● Wilderness is affected by global warming, which is
cultural, and gardens depend on sunlight, which is
a natural force.
● Nature Writing:-
● Thomson’s The Seasons, Thomas Gray’s ‘Elegy in a
Country Churchyard’ and William Cooper's The
Task.

10. ● Cultural Ecocriticism focuses on issues of the social and
Linguistic.
● Traditional representation of Socrates or God the Father
Show elderly, grey- bearded patriarchal figures in
flowing garments, rather than glossy, sharply - dressed,
men or women, as if age and masculinity were the
natural fleshly garb of the ‘Wisdom of the ages’.
● But these different, culturally - determined ways of
regarding the fact of again should not prevent us from
realising that it doesn't follow that age is ‘socially
constructed’ or that it is part of Culture rather than
nature.

11. Example of Ecocriticism in
literature and Movie :-
● The Prelude :-
It's a autobiographical poem by
William Wordsworth.
The main theme of the poem is that
society is disappointing, but nature
presents the solutions to the
problems caused by society.

12. Sherni :-
● Sherni is a 2021 Indian Hindi -
language action thriller film
directed by Amit V. Masurkar and
produced by T - Series and
Abundantia Entertainment.
● The Film stars Vidya Balan in the
leading role of an Indian Forest
Service officer. The Film deals with
the subjects like human situation,
human and wildlife conflict and
wildlife conservation.

13. Conclusion
● Ecocriticism is a way of looking at how we relate
to nature, the moral and artistic challenges we
face, and how language and literature can convey
important ecological ideas.

14. Refrenceses
● Glotfelty, Cheryll and Harold From. eds. 'The Ecocriticism
Readers: Landmarks in Literary Ecology '. Athens: University of
Georgia Press, 1996.
● "Sherni" Film Review: Vidya Balan's stoic and subtle Act Keeps
The Man- Animal Jungle Drama Afloat" Mashable India 18 June,
2021.
● M H Abrams Glossary of literary Terms.
● Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "The Prelude".
Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 Jul. 2012,
https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Prelude. Accessed 21
October 2023.

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