Literature and Environment: An Ecocritical Approach to Haifaa Al-Sanoussi's Departure of the Sea (Abdulhamid Alansary, Dept., of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, Sohag University) ABSTRACT This research paper tries to explain the desire to return to pure nature through the analysis of a work of art ecocritically, namely Haifaa Al-Sanoussi's Departure of the Sea. It also attempts to show how the relationship between man and nature, which had been previously harmonized, has changed
Those who promote "a pragmatist variation of ecocriticism," to practice Dana Phillips's phrase (The Truth 135), the legitimize their study of literature in terms of conservational values, and hence that link literature with the natural world, fail to recognize that informative theory can be perceived of lacking phonological occupying its center. It is true that there is also more hypothetically concerned withecocriticalallowance today, but these studies often shortage a chastised focus with
Children’s literature is funny, interesting, informative, and imaginative. Picture books are a very effective tool to promote environmental literacy. Eco-writing, in the form of children’s literature can enhance environmental literacy. Dr. Seuss’ classic children’s book Horton Hears a Who! raises questions about the theory and nature of knowledge. Just as the animals disagree about what is real, so should the children as well. This paper is an attempt to emphasize how eco-literature can motivate
This remark by Ella Soper and Nicholas Bradley in their‘Introduction’ to Greening the 'Maple': Canadian Ecocriticism in Context (2015) definitely sets a ground to explore the 'context' that was there in Canadian literature long before the advent of ecocriticism and discuss both the continuities and ruptures in Canadian studies that reveal "nature" to be a seminal yet shifting and unstable concept and site of investigation. Ecology, the relation between individuals and the physical environment also
In the dystopian world Jimmy inhabits in Oryx and Crake, the humanities are of little relevance, as J. Brooks Bouson states: “In Jimmy’s world, the creative arts, no longer valued by the culture, have lost their vitality” (144). Instead, they have been replaced by science and technology as the fields of study of most importance. Since the majority of people living in the compounds are ‘numbers people’ and work for the laboratories in the compounds, Jimmy as a ‘word person’ is isolated and in his
Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away. (Titus Plautus, 254-184 BC) INTRODUCTION "Man-eating leopards bring fear to slums of Bombay as 10 die", (Foster 2004) was published in The Telegraph on 29th June, 2004 along with several other stories on "man-eater leopards" in Mumbai. This came a year after the Maharashtra Forest Department released around 500 pigs and rabbits in the Sanjay Gandhi