Ecoliterature
Ecoliterature is an emerging body of writing from an ecological worldview employing literary technical devices such as natural imagery, natural sounds, ecological themes, and ecoforms. Ecoliterature and its promoters prefix an 'eco' onto existing literary forms to differentiate the genre: forms include poetry (ecopoetry), the novel (econovels), dramatic works (ecodrama), criticism (ecocriticism) and literary theory (ecotheory).
Ecoliterature forms
Romantic nature poetry is the primary historical antecedent to contemporary ecoliterature, but other antecedent works are also found in the Age of Sensibility.
Nature novels are found in 18th-century Gothic novels within Edmund Burke's aesthetic philosophy of the Sublime and its themes of good and evil.
Nature drama is a developed literary form termed naturalistic drama, which for example, playright Eugene O'Neill employed in his works. Nature literature describes nature itself. Naturalistic literature describes people and their relationship to nature and the environment. Ecological literature describes people's knowledge of nature and of the environment. T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land is the modern form of ecological literature.
Ecocriticism and literary theory
Ecocriticism and ecotheory of literature involve critical analysis in theories of ecology and nature literature.
Ecoliterature forms
Romantic nature poetry is the primary historical antecedent to contemporary ecoliterature, but other antecedent works are also found in the Age of Sensibility.
Nature novels are found in 18th-century Gothic novels within Edmund Burke's aesthetic philosophy of the Sublime and its themes of good and evil.
Nature drama is a developed literary form termed naturalistic drama, which for example, playright Eugene O'Neill employed in his works. Nature literature describes nature itself. Naturalistic literature describes people and their relationship to nature and the environment. Ecological literature describes people's knowledge of nature and of the environment. T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land is the modern form of ecological literature.
Ecocriticism and literary theory
Ecocriticism and ecotheory of literature involve critical analysis in theories of ecology and nature literature.
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