Deepali Yadav Amity University Noida, Uttar Pradesh (India) “Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught; Only then you will find that money cannot be eaten” Yann Martel’s ‘Life of Pi’ justifies the irony behind the stated proverb….
Tag: ECOCRITICAL READING
Angelina Weld Grimke’s Selected Poems: An Ecocritical Reading
Shubhanku Kohcar Assistant Professor, Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi Since Renaissance, man has been exploring the world around him. Stimulated by curiosity, he has penetrated almost every corner of the planet. In the earlier phase, the curiosity was to know more and more about the unknown areas which was later accompanied by desire to…
The Village by the Sea: An Ecocritical Reading
Raj Kumar Mishra Ecocriticism is a conscious-raising phenomenon about environment. To the students or scholars of literature, ‘ecocriticism is a critical development to spread consciousness about ecological concerns. It is a multidisciplinary approach. Numberless development programmes are being executed not being with ecology instead at the cost of ecology. Ecocriticism as a literary ecological philosophy…
AN ECOCRITICAL READING OF ROBERT FROST’S SELECT POEMS
Dr. S. Ambika, Asst. Professor of English, S.T. Hindu College, Nagercoil – 2, India Literary eco-criticism is motivated by environmental activism and focuses principally on representations of the physical environment, especially of nonhuman nature. The dualistic separation of human from nature, promoted by Western Philosophy and culture as the origin of environmental crisis, demands a…