Volume IV Issue IV October-December 2024

Name of Author : Dr.M.Saji

Title of the paper : Ecocriticism in Amitav Ghoshs The Hungry Tide

Abstract: Eco criticism is the study of literature and ecology from an interdisciplinary point of view, where literature scholars analyze texts that illustrate environmental concerns and examine the various ways literature treats the subject of nature. It was first originated by Joseph Meeker as an idea called literary ecology in his The Comedy of Surviyal studies in Literary Ecology 1972. The term ‘Ecocriticism’ was coined in 1978 by William Rueckert in his essay Literature and Ecology An Experiment in Ecocriticism. It takes an interdisciplinary point of view by analyzing the works of authors, researchers and poets in the context of environmental issues and nature. Ecocriticism is an intentionally broad approach that is known by a number of other designations, including green cultural studies, ecopoetics, and environmental literary criticism, and is often informed by other fields such as ecology, sustainable design, biopolitics, environmental history, environmentalism and social ecology among others.

Keywords : Ecocriticism, sustainable design, biopolitics

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Page No. : 43-44