Country and City in Sarah Orne Jewett's A WHITE HERON

Jamil, S. Selina

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“…Thus, both conditions lead to the culmination of her submissiveness created by the male mainstream. S. Selina Jamil (2017) tackles the theme of loneliness in Jewett's "A White Heron." Jamil (2017) argues the thematic notions of loneliness expose ethical problems and their crises emerging out of their complications.…”

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“…S. Selina Jamil (2017) tackles the theme of loneliness in Jewett's "A White Heron." Jamil (2017) argues the thematic notions of loneliness expose ethical problems and their crises emerging out of their complications. The story is characterized by moral and spiritual crises.…”

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“…The story is characterized by moral and spiritual crises. The literary circumference of Jewett's story, according to Jamil (2017), is the environmental milieus. The theme of the ethical crisis strongly relates to the alienation that has been dominant in Jewett's diverse county atmosphere.…”

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“…This loneliness appears to be linked to the relationship between the civil society and Sylvia's attempt to be able to assimilate with other people. Jamil (2017), consequently, approaches the ethical crisis by approaching the literary and figurative appropriation of loneliness incarnated in the protagonist's character in the course of the plot. The lurking essence of the study is to make an analogy between the protagonist and society on the ground of civil interactive dimensions.…”

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Countryside, Domestic Picturesque, and Scenic Sublimes: The Triad of Eco-feminism in Sarah Orne Jewett’s “A White Heron”

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This paper examines countryside, domestic picturesque, and scenic sublimes in Sarah Orne Jewett’s “A White Heron.” It conducts an interdisciplinary eco-feminist approach to explore the coalescence of women and nature depicted in the story. The study approaches women’s exploitation and its remedial antithesis through living in nature. It applies three eco-critical concepts. The first concept is the countryside which comprises marshes, swamps, and woods. The second concept is domestic picturesque that encompass fauna and paths; and the third concept is scenic sublimes including birds, forest, and wilderness. The study demonstrates how Jewett adopts these eco-critical insights as indicatory features symbolizing the exploitation of women by male mainstream to dramatize the subtle relation between women and nature. It highlights an aspect seldom remarked on by scholars of Jewett’s story, and it discovers Jewett’s self-conscious exposition of women’s exploitation inflicted on the protagonist, Sylvia. It also identifies Jewett’s depiction of the protagonist’s settlement in the countryside to evade masculine exploitation by living close to natural elements, like animals, birds, and wilderness. The study ultimately unravels Jewett’s reinforcement of the protagonist’s feminist subjectivity via finding spiritual serenity in nature.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Countryside, Domestic Picturesque, and Scenic Sublimes: The Triad of Eco-feminism in Sarah Orne Jewett’s “A White Heron”

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Kuş Semboli̇zmi̇ Ve Kültürel Hafiza: Türk Ve Ameri̇kan Edebi̇yatinda Bi̇yoçeşi̇tli̇li̇k Ve Kentleşmeni̇n İncelenmesi̇

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This article aims to examine one of the key principles of environmental philosophy, the direct relationship between cultural memory and biodiversity, in the context of three literary works selected from Turkish and American literature. These works trace a process of change in cultural texture due to rapid urbanization and population growth, as well as social transformations experienced just before and after rapid industrialization periods. Another common point is that all three of them deal with different aspects of bird hunting. Bird symbolism has been used effectively to highlight the contrast between rural and urban cultures. In addition to these symbolic relationships based on the natural characteristics of the birds, these texts use different aspects of avian life to interpret multiple layers of meaning, enriched by intercultural and intracultural references provided by history and tradition. It should be underlined that these fictional narratives, which sometimes use the natural environment for allegorical purposes, do not have didactic qualities. These ecocentric texts use birds not only in their traditional symbolic meaning, but also, either as a character or a theme, as real beings. By establishing a direct relationship between urbanization and reduction of biodiversity, inseparable role of birds in the cycles of nature, of which human beings are also a part, is emphasized. Finally, in this study, besides their cultural and historical importance, contribution of birds to the sustainability of biodiversity is discussed through the following literary works: Two of them, 'The Last Birds' and The Birds Have Also Gone, compare the value judgments and lifestyles of Istanbul’s pre-industrial urban era with the post-industrial situation. The last one, ‘A White Heron’, focuses on the relationship between rural life experiences and environmental awareness. This comparison leads to the conclusion that industrial urban life poses a significant obstacle to appreciating the intrinsic value of nature.

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Country and City in Sarah Orne Jewett's A WHITE HERON

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Countryside, Domestic Picturesque, and Scenic Sublimes: The Triad of Eco-feminism in Sarah Orne Jewett’s “A White Heron”

Countryside, Domestic Picturesque, and Scenic Sublimes: The Triad of Eco-feminism in Sarah Orne Jewett’s “A White Heron”

Kuş Semboli̇zmi̇ Ve Kültürel Hafiza: Türk Ve Ameri̇kan Edebi̇yatinda Bi̇yoçeşi̇tli̇li̇k Ve Kentleşmeni̇n İncelenmesi̇

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