Article Review

Ecocriticism is the interdisciplinary study of literature and the

environment, in which all sciences join together to assess the environment and
generate new solutions for resolving the current environmental predicament.
In literature, ecocriticism examines the relationship between humans and the
natural world. It examines how environmental issues, environmental culture
issues, and attitudes toward nature are presented and examined. Due to rising
social emphasis on environmental degradation and greater technology, this
type of critique has gotten a lot of attention in recent years. As a result, it is a
novel approach to studying and interpreting literary texts that adds new
aspects to the field of literary and theoretical studies.

The essential assumptions, ideas and methods of eccritics may be

summed up as follows. (1) Eccritics believe that human culture is related to the
physical world. (2) Ecocriticism assumes that all life forms are interlinked.
Ecocriticism expands the notion of “the world” to include the entire ecosphere.
(3) Moreover, there is a definite link between nature and culture, where the
literary treatment, representation and “thematization” of land and nature
influence actions on the land.

Ecocriticism defines itself as a practice of reading literature from an

earth-centered (rather than human-centered) perspective. There is also an
activist dimension to ecocriticism: at least part of the reason eccritics wants to
discuss the centrality of nature in literature is to raise awareness more
generally about the need for concern and indeed action concerning the
environment. The practice of reading literature from an earth-centered (rather
than a human-centered) perspective is known as ecocriticism. Ecocriticism also
has an activism component: at least part of the reason eccritics seeks to
analyze the relevance of nature in literature is to raise general awareness
about the need for environmental concern and action.