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Ecocriticism: Natural World in the Literary Viewfinder

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  • Hacettepe Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi

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  • 1999

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Ecocriticism is a new critical movement that attempts to link literary criticisim and theory with today's ecological isues. it studies the relationshipbetween literature and the science of ecology by applying ecological concepts to literature. Its aim is to synthesize literary criticism and the ~nvironmentalmattersby focusing on the literary analyses of the representationsof naturein literary texts, andthe literaryconstructionsof the environmental crisis in eco-literary discourses This article discusses the conceptual problems raised by such a synthesis and the questions posed by the possible interrelationsbetween literatureand ecological coıncerns. it argues for the need of an expansive theoretical approachin studying the intersectionso f the literary and the natural phenomena. it also emphasizes the importance of eco-literary discourses in the practice of ecocriticism through an ecocritical evaluation of two postmodern novels. In short, the article focuses on the new ecologicaIly oriented literary criticism in the literary viewfinder.
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Abstract (Original Language): 
Ekoeleştiri edebiyatın kuramsal alanlannda yeni eleştirel ufuklar açan, ve doğa ve çevre olgulanyla edebiyat arasındakiilişkileri inceleyen yeni bir eleştiri akımı olarak ortaya çıkmıştır. Edebiyat eserlerinde ekolojik temalann ve doğa ile ilintili sembollerin kullanımı üzerine yoğunlaşan ekoeleştiri, sosyal bilimlerdenolduğukadarbiyoloji, jeoloji ve fizik gibi doğa bilimlerinden de yararlanmakta, ve bu bilimlerin geliştirdiği kavramları edebiyat kuramlarında kullanmaktadır. Edebiyat ve ekoloji arasındaki paralellikleri inceleyen ekoeleştiri, yazınsal metinleri de ekolojik bilinçlenme çerçevesinde ele almakta, ve bu metinleri ekoeleştirel bir bakış açısıyla tartışmaktadır. Edebiyat çalışmalanna ekolojik kavramları uyarlayarak, edebiyat eserlerinin çevre ve doğaya ne derece katkı sağlayabileceği konusunu tartışmaya açan ekoeleştiri, özellikle doğayla ilintili edebi, kültürel ve sosyal değerleri, sembolleri ve bakış açılarını mercek altına yatırınaktadır.Bu makalede henüz yapılanmaaşamasındaolan ekoeleştirininkarşılaştığı sorunlartartışılmakta ve iki postmodernroman örnek olarak ekoeleştirel bir perspektiftenincelenmektedir.
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