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1. Eco-Criticism, New Historicism and
Diaspora
Hitesh Galthariya
Roll No :- 08 M.A. Sem :- 2 Year :- 2015-16
Paper :- 07 Literary Theory & Criticism - 2
Submitted to :
Smt.S.B. Gardi
Department of English
M.K.Bhav.University

2. What is Eco-Criticism ?
• Eco-Criticism 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, eco-criticism takes an earth
centered approach to literary studies.

3. • William Rueckert may have been the first person to use the
term.
• In 1978, he published an essay “Literature and ecology: An
experiment is eco-criticism”.
• Green studies, eco-poetics and environmental literary
criticism- are forms.
• Two seminal works: “The eco-criticism reader” and “The
environmental imagination”.

4. Ecocritics ask questions like:
(1)How is nature
represented in this
sonnet?
(2) What role
does the physical
setting play in the
plot of this novel?
(3) How can we
characterize
nature writing
as a genre?

5. New-Historicism
• Developed in 1980s.
• Stephen Greenblatt.
• Basic idea: history with
literary text.
• Parallel reading of
literary text and history.

6. New Historicism is a literary theory based on the idea that
literature should be studied and intrepreted within the context
of both the history of the author and the history of the critic.
Based on the literary criticism of Stephen Greenblatt and
influenced by the philosophy of Michel Foucault, New
Historicism acknowledges not only that a work of literature is
influenced by its author's times and circumstances, but that the
critic's response to that work is also influenced by his
environment, beliefs, and prejudices.

7. “Text is historical and history is textual.”
• -Michael Wallner
“(New Historicism) is combined interest in the textuality of
history, the historicity of text.”
• -Louis Montrose
New Historicism involves “an intensified willingness to read
all of the textual traces of the past with the attention
traditionally conferred only on literary text”
• -Stephen Greenblatt

8. Diaspora
• Birth of Diaspora Literature
• However, the 1993 Edition of Shorter Oxford's
definition of Diaspora can be found. While still
insisting on capitalization of the first letter,
'Diaspora' now also refers to 'anybody of people
living outside their traditional homeland
• Often diaspora the body of Jews or Jewish
communities outside Palestine or modern Israel.
• The term Diaspora coined from Greek word
Diaspeirein - "to scatter about, disperse“.

10. Diasporas

11. • Citizen of a dominant city or state who emigrated
to a conquered land with the purpose of
colonization, to assimilate the territory into the
empire.
• The term became more widely assimilated into
English by the mid 1950s.
• Maintaining some form of attachment to each.
• It is scattered population from its origin in a
smaller geo graphic area.

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