Ecocriticism is an interdisciplinary field that studies the relationship between literature and the physical environment. It examines how human perceive wilderness and aims to show how writers address environmental issues in their works. Ecocritics analyze how the environment is portrayed in literature and search for solutions to environmental problems. The field considers history, philosophy, ethics and psychology and has expanded beyond nature writing and romanticism to become a recognized academic discipline since the 1990s.

1. STUDIES UNDER
ECOCRITICISM

2. ECOCRITICISM
• Coined by William Rueckert in 1978
• Eco- not harming the environment,
ism- tool, device, idea, theory or principle.
• Interdisciplinary, multi-cultural, multi-ethnic
movement and international.
• Basically literature, cultural and criticism
• Study of the relationship between literature
and physical environment.

3. • An earth-centered approach to literary
studies
• Feminist study of the literary metaphor of
landscape as female.
• Aims to show the work of the writers about
environment.
• As a academic discipline began in 1990’s

4. • Examines human perception of wilderness
• Ecocritics analyzes environment and gives
possible solution
• Finds the problems that happen due to
imbalance.
• History, Philosophy, Ethics and
Psychology are also considered by the
ecocritics.
• Recent works have ranged beyond nature
writing and romanticism.

5. ECOLOGY
• Scientific study of natural
interdependencies.
• Relationship between air, land, water,
animals, plants or the scientific study of
these.
• Scientific analysis and the study of
interactions among organisms and their
environment.

7. • Includes biology and earth sciences.
• Ecologists seek,
» Life processes and interactions
» The movement of materials and energy through
living communities
» The successional development of ecosystems
» The abundance of distribution and organism.

8. ECOSYSTEM
• Local set of conditions that support life.
• Made up of living and non-living things that
interact. And depend on each other for life.
• Word “System” is misleading.
• Each local system together constitute the
global system called the ecosphere or
biosphere.
• Food chain describes one sets of
relationships that make an ecosystem.