ARIKIN, Arda Akdeniz Universitesi - Edebiyat Fakultesi - Bati Dilleri ve Edebiyatlari Bolumu, Turkey

Literary Analysis and Ecocriticism

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Issues such as poverty, hunger, marginalization, gender, natural disasters and water and waste management have become our daily concerns. This newly evolving ecological culture that is shared socially will result in development of bifurcated areas of study and ideological stand points. Understanding the epistemological roots of people s everyday thoughts and judgments related to environmental issues requires careful thinking that will inevitably point at the effect of media, science, and politics. This epistemology must be cultivated so as to shape cultural and educational applications that will result in shaping the mindset of the new generations. Environmental education, in that sense, is argued to help solving environmental problems. In this present study, ecological literary criticism will be exemplified as a tool that can be used in daily readings of social and textual phenomena. While doing that, ecological criticism will be discussed and then two poems from Turkish literature are studied as an example of applying eco-criticism into our reading of literature. It is aimed that such readings will encourage individuals to apply ecological readings into textual as well as cultural texts as given in the examples within the confinement of this present paper.

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Eco , criticism , environment , criticism , literature , ecology , theory , literature teaching

Mediterranean Journal Of Humanities

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