The Pioneer Ecocritics’ Crıtıque of The English Profession in The Emergence of Ecocrticism / Ekoeleştirinin Ortaya Çıkışında Öncü Ekoeleştirmenlerin Edebiyat Eleştirisi

Öz Abstract: Ecoriticism is one of the most recent trends in literary criticism. Ecocriticismis critical of the ignorance and absence of nature, environment, and the environmentalcrisis in literary studies. The pioneer ecocritics argue that this indifference of the literarystudies is mainly due to the dominant anthropocentric worldview in literary studies.Key Words: Ecocriticism, anthropocentric, nature, environment, environmental crisis,literature.Ekoeleştirinin Ortaya Çıkışında Öncü Ekoeleştirmenlerin Edebiyat Eleştirisi Özet: Edebiyat alanındaki yeni eğilimlerden biri de ekoeleştiridir. Ekoeleştiri edebiyatalanındaki doğa, çevre ve çevre krizlerine olan ilgisizlikten yakınır. Bu alandaki öncü ekoeleştirmenler de, edebiyat alanındaki bu ilgisizliğin alanda egemen olan insanmerkezligörüş yüzünden kaynaklandığını ileri sürerler.Anahtar Kelimeler: Ekoeleştiri, insanmerkezli, doğa, çevre, çevresel felaketler, edebiyat.

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