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Ecocriticism:
A Study of Environmental Issues in Select Short Stories of Ruskin Bond

Dr. Sravana Jyothi. Doddapaneni


Ruskin Bond
Courtesy: https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/ruskin-bond-81-and-still-rocking-115051901257_1.html

Abstract

In all the nations of the world nature and literature have constantly shared intimacy and it is represented by the writers in their works. Now, literary critics are trying to understand how the relationship is incorporated in literature by the writers. Even though India is blessed with diverse ecosystem from the north to the south and from the east to the west, it is under threat due to the growing population and greed of human beings.

Ecology is another part of fiction that portrays the relationship of individuals and climate. The bond is perplexing to such an extent that any deviation in one can influence the other. Subsequently, concern for environmentalism is extraordinary compared to other discussed subjects these days and has become set up idea around the world. But Ecocriticism has gone through shifts in its methodology and course since its development. This paper attempts to analyse Ruskin Bond's short stories from the Pastoral Approach of Ecocriticism.

Keywords: Ecocriticism, Pastoral approach, Ruskin Bond, Nature, Behaviour, Relationship,

Introduction

Literature is well recognized by readers as it represents the present issues. It is full of works that deal with the ecstasy of nature. But the apprehension for ecosystem and the danger that the Environment put forth on human race, freshly caught the consideration of the writers. This intellect has given scope to a new literary theory, which is Ecocriticism. ‘Ecocriticism’ is a word first presented in William Rueckert’s essay “Literature and Ecology: An Experiment in Ecocriticism” in 1978. But it stayed idle in critical terminology until the Western Literature Association meeting (in Loeur d’ Alene) 1989.

At that period, Cheryll Glotfelty was a student and concentrated on the vocabulary and its usage in the field of literature which later became ‘the study of nature writing’. At present he is an Assistant Professor of Literature and Environment at the University of Nevada, Reno. Glen Love who is a professor of English at the University of Oregon also supported the sound of ‘ecocriticism’ in WLA meeting. Then the practice of the word ‘ecocriticism’ has flourished.

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Dr. Sravana Jyothi. Doddapaneni
Assistant Professor of English
Department of Sciences and Humanities
VFSTR Deemed to be University
Vadlamudi, Guntur, A.P., India
sravani.alapati3@gmail.com
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