The role of nature in contemporary literature: an interdisciplinary dialogue

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyse how the dialogue between literature and the environment might actively interfere in society"s behaviour concerning the ecological problems in vogue today. In this sense, the bibliographical research is structured on hypotheses which problematise dominant systems in the contemporary intellectual, social, and economic spheres, highlighting ecocriticism as a pivotal theoretical perspective for the relation between subject and surrounding space to be rethought. Bringing the Amazon as to materially illustrate the importance for such theme to be discussed, the article proposes alternatives external to the ones posed by developmentalist policies, whose worries generally regard material profit reached through the alienation of the population so convinced of the benefits of such process. Such process, thus, takes place through the institutionalisation of Amerindian"s culture, their insertion in the capitalist world, and, especially, the obliteration of Amazonian environment and the extinction of native species. Going to the opposite direction, literature might be utilised as a counter-hegemonic tool able to allow readers to consider other definitions for their relation with the environment.

A study of ecocriticism on the representations of ecological conditions in Rawa Gambut

“…Her work mentions that the protagonist's moral development is based on ideas about justice, care, and other pro-social attitudes that arise from his sensitivity to the natural environment. There is also the study by Gonçalves and Ávila (2014), which confirms that literature can be used as a counter-hegemonic tool that allows readers to consider other views related to saving the Amazon environment. Then, another study by Wang (2018) offers a critique of the destruction of nature and the environment in East Asia.…”

The Image of "Nature" in William Wordsworth’s Poem "The Prelude "

“…studied by: Bensenouci Imane, Serir Ilham [2]; Solyanyk V. I. [3]; Muhammad Asim, Amjad Hussain, Amina Akram [4]; Yuanli Zhang, Wei Ding, Lixia Jia [5]; Mohamad Ismail Mir, Fasil Barkat Dar [6]; Lukyanchenko I.O., Polinkova A.S. [7]; Akash Sharma, Ms. Vandana Chundawat [10]; Davi Silva Gonçalves, Eliana de Souza Ávila [11]; Jannat -E-Hosne Ara [12]; Lok Raj Sharma [13]; Nadeem Ali [14], Li Dan [15], etc.…”