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Introduction to Ecocriticism Ecocriticism is literary and cultural criticism from an environmentalist viewpoint. Literary critics in general read books and ask how good they are, and the values to which they appeal in making that judgement tell us what kind of critic they are. A good book - or poem, or play, or film, or TV show - in ecocritical terms is one that says something valuable about environmental problems. It may be one that movingly depicts environmental crisis in a way that should make people care, certainly, but it could also be one that corrects an environmentalist misconception. The critic who commends the environmental content of a work but finds the work to be flawed in other ways is also being an ecocritic, in that the criticism is demonstrating how the environmental content is weakened, obstructed or discredited by the way it is represented. So are you an ecocritic?
This is just a small sample of ecocritical approaches. Book-length introductions and articles about ecocriticism are listed in the bibliography. - Richard Kerridge |
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