Volume V Special Issue IV October 2025

Name of Author : Dr. Vikas Rana

Title of the paper : Negotiating Ecocriticism: A Trajectory into the Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra

Abstract: 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. Ecocritical discourse is essentially grounded upon a holistic study of man, nature, environmental condition and its application to the study of literature. In his definition on Ecocriticism, William Rueckert 1978 emphasizes the application of ecological concepts to the study of literature an idea which is subsequently vindicated by Cheryll Glotfelty The Ecocriticism Reader, 1996. While problematizing Ecocriticism, Glotfelty hinges upon the study of literature in relation to physical environment thereby augmenting ecocentric approach to literary studies as against the anthropocentric approach. Environmentalists and ecologists unanimously opine that an ideal environmental condition necessitates a healthy interaction among the biotic, abiotic and cultural elements that constitute a sound ecosystem. It is the sound interaction among these three elements that produces a physical man, a social man and an economic man.

Keywords : Ecocriticism, Literature, Environment, Nature, Ecosystem

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Page Number : 146-151