WGS355H5 Lecture Notes - Ecocriticism, Conservation Movement, Body Art
Document Summary
Ecocriticism began as a field of literary criticism in which a consideration of the natural world or nature in texts became the foremost concern in interpretation. It is now an interdisciplinary field, which seeks to understand and identify the cultural discourses that describe the natural world and the human relationship to it. Feminist ecocritics have posited the idea that the feminization of the natural world may be linked to environmental degradation. The portrayal of nature as female, whether mother, goddess, or virgin. Gaia theory looks at the entire planet as a living breathing organism calls earth gaia o o. When you cut down a tree etc, you are involved in a spiritual activity that is interconnected with nature and humans pre 15th century, humans=nature. Nature stakeholders of the natural world animals plants humans men and women landscape land. The old structures were incompatible with new activities merchant.
