The advantages of children interacting with the natural environment have been promoted to early childhood educators, with theorists such as Froebel (1896) and Steiner (1923) encouraging for children’s relationship with the nature to be nurtured. However in urban development the connectedness with the environment is largely through man made construction. Between 1980 and 2014 the average block size has decreased 8%, yet the average house to block ratio has increasing 28% resulting in less outdoor
Research Paper Literature Volume : 3 | Issue : 1 | January 2013 | ISSN - 2249-555X Ecology in Relation to Ecocriticism – A Theoretical Approach Keywords Ecosystem, ecological concern, ecocriticism, theoretical analysis. V. Shoba Dr. P. Nagaraj PhD Research Scholar, Department of English and Foreign Assistant Professor, Department of English and Foreign Languages, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India Languages, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India ABSTRACT One
“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 texts, ecocriticism takes an earth-centered approach to literary studies.” Cheryll Glotfelty (xviii) Man is a part of this earth as the plants and animals are. Man is considered to be the only literary creature on the earth and here the superiority of human minds arise and forget that he is the only
Introduction Today man has exploited his home to the extent that there is a greater need to go back to old life. With the emergence of science and technology there is a gradual depletion of environmental resources. It is often taken for granted that natural resources are to be exploited for sound economy. The issues like rampant sand mining, ever increasing greenhouse gases like heavy emission of carbon dioxide, gradual depletion of ozone layer, spread of epidemics, unheard diseases, e-waste dumping
indicate that nature and culture are essential in human life. In other words, humanity and environment are one unit, each of them supplements the other. Ecocriticism could be defined as “a literary discipline which seeks to examine the intersections of culture, literature, and ecology. It also seeks to infer the relationships among nature, the natural processes themselves, and human conception of "the natural world"”. This paper will regard Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel The Secret Garden as an ecocritical
Degree College, Bangalore. Charlesgodwin.k@gmail.com Ecocriticism is the study of the relationship between literature and the physical environment. The word ‘Eco’ and ‘Critic’ is derived from the Greek word ‘Oikos’ and ‘Kritic’. The relationship is that literature is the reflection of life and this life entirely depends upon nature. Without nature there is no life, without life there is no literature. So literature and nature are inter-relatedn to each other. Ecocriticism celebrates nature to certain
eco-criticism. Ruckert published an essay titled “Literature and Ecology: An Experiment in Ecocriticism” in (1978) which he focused on “the application of Ecology and ecological concepts to the study of literature”. First, ecocriticism is a response to the need for humanistic understanding of our relationship with the natural world in an age of environment destruction. Secondly, environmental crises are result of humanity’s disconnection from the natural world, brought about not only by increasing technology
The review of the literature shows that the concept of teacher collaboration is still ambiguous. In a collaborative effort, different stakeholders may be present or it may be mediated by others while peer collaboration took place among teachers with similar rank. The term ‘collaboration’ is interchangeably used with ‘collegiality’ and ‘teaming’ when it took place between teachers. Mutual goal and shared understanding are important aspects of teacher collaboration. The notion refers to the teacher
Romantic Period, nature was predominately used for symbolism in literature and writers, such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, are influential in capturing nature in their works. Coleridge, like many other romantics, worships nature and believes nature is an educator to children, an experience of which he himself was deprived. Furthermore, Coleridge’s pieces of literature, especially his poem “Frost in Midnight,” illustrate how the natural world was viewed during the Romantic Era and connect its beauty
Eco-criticism is a branch of literature that examines the connection between ecology and it’s relationship between the literary texts . By the words of Cheryll Glotfelty defines eco-criticism as ‘Simply defined, eco-criticism is the study of the relationship between literature and the physical environment.’ Eco-criticism is the term that examines the green studies in various literary texts. Eco-criticism examines a particular piece of