Critical Essays on Literature and Environment

Contents: Introduction. 1. The greening of literary landscape: ecological consciousness in literary studies/Ajay Kumar Shukla. 2. Ecocritical texts in postcolonial contexts/Alok Kumar. 3. Nature imagery in W.B. Yeats\'s play the countess Cathleen/Roger Augustine. 4. Ecocriticism and environmental challenges/Arvind Kumar Misra. 5. Children\'s literature and environment/Rina Pathak. 6. Walt Whitman: the spiritual seeker/Shekhar Varma. 7. Ecocriticism and the major Romantic poets/Ganesh Kumar Srivastava. 8. Ecocriticism and Arundhati Roy\'s the God of small things/Manjeet Kumar Rai. 9. Eco feminism is it important to see the earth as mother/Seema Shekhar. 10. Depiction of the opposite facets of nature in Golding\'s Lord of the flies/Madhulika Das...

This volume contains an assortment of critical essays on Literature and environment. These research papers investigate capaciously the relationship between and interactions of man and nature and how different forms of literary and critical writings formulate these issues. Inter dependence of man and nature has been meticulously and comprehensively highlighted through the perusal of texts beginning from The Vedas to the present times with a global outlook by exploring the American, the African, the British and the Indian literatures. The relevance of environmental preservation gets emphatically procalimed through sagacious deliberations from the fields of pure literature, bio-technology, agriculture, pedagogy and religious texts. The view of poets novelists dramatists eco-critics and eco-feminists find an in-depth perusal in this volume through scholarly papers. The collection will prove to be a significant document for the contemporary readers as their is a mass awareness about environmental protection and the disquisitions contain some practical suggestions for eco preservation. (jacket)