A literary approach in literature

1. ECOCRITICISM
PAULINE MARALIT
St. Anthony College Calapan Inc.
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2. Welcome
Classmates!

3. INTRODUCTION
Eco-Criticism is the 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.
WHAT IS ECOCRITICISM?

4. What is this new theory
about?
Ecocriticism makes us re-evaluate every other
kind of criticism. Primarily, it contests
theories of language (more on that later) and
puts a whole new perspective on how to approach
literary works.One of the recognised pioneers of
ecocriticism, Cheryll Glotfelty, states that
“Simply defined, ecocriticism is the study of the
relationship between literature and the physical
environment”..

5. Ecocritic is "a person who
judges the merits and
faults of writings that
depict the effects of
culture upon nature, with
a view toward celebrating
nature' berating its
despoilers, and reversing
their harm through
political action.”(Howart
69)
Ecocriticism is a name
that implies ecological
literacy
Ecocriticism is a name
that implies ecological
literacy. Eco and
critic both derive from
Greek, oikos and
kritis' and in tandem
they mean "house
judge," (…)

6. Ecocriticism is the study of
literature and environment from an
interdisciplinary point of view
where literature scholars analyze
the environment and brainstorm
possible solutions for the
correction of the contemporary
environmental situation and examine
the various ways literature treats
the subject of nature.
ECOCRITICISM FOCUS ON..

7. Concept and Definitions
Ecocriticism is the youngest of the revisionist
movements that have influenced the humanities
over the past few decades. It was only in the
1990s that it began to gain momentum, first in
the US and in the UK, as more and more literary
scholars began to ask what their field has to
contribute to our understanding of the unfolding
environmental crisis..

8. A disadvantage of using
this literary criticism
theory is analysts might
focus on how nature plays
a role in a particular
novel and forget how the
physical world shaped
helped shaped the elements
in nature.
The advantage of the
ecocriticism approach
as it applies to the
Heart of Darkness is
that readers can gain a
full understanding and
deeper meaning that
many people wouldn't
grasp if they didn't
analyze the novel.
Advantages Disadvantages

9. EXAMPLES OF ECOCENTRISM
LITERARY APPROACH
RALPH WALDO EMERSON (1803-1882)
Emerson's first short book Nature ,published in 1836
is reflective essay on the impact upon him of the
natural world, often voiced in words of dramatic
directness:Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles,
at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in
my thoughts any occurence of special good fortune, I
have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to
the brink of fear. (Emerson 38)

10. Thoreau's Walden is an account of
his two-year stay, from 1845, in a
hut he had built on the shore of
Walden Pond , Massachusetts. It is
the classic of account of dropping
out of modern life and seeking to
renew the self by a 'return to
nature. Therefore, these three books
of the trancendentalists can be seen
the foundational works of American
Ecocriticism.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
(1817-1862)

11. THANK YOU!