ENGL3703 Final: Writing Australian Nature Course Notes
Document Summary
Ecocriticism: study of the relation between literature and the physical environment. What is meant by this approach, how it resonates for people who are interested in these kind of questions. The tension between ecocriticism as an approach to texts and postmodernism. Deconstucting texts, everything is culturally constructed, a strong assumption throughout humanities/literary studies. Debate about that kind of concept "nothing outside the text" (derrida. ) More than the human constructs through which we understand it, a tension between some kinds of ecocriticism. How the map precedes the terrain, how representation has emptied out the meaning of the terrain. The map can never be dissociated from the terrain, there is no way of knowing the terrain outside the mental map in our heads. Map and terrain are the two things moving between the representation of nature and that which is outside the representation. "two things that make australia distinctive history and its very different natural environments. "
