Studies under Richard Kerridge's "Ecocriticism"

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.