tailieunhanh - By the name of nature but against nature: An ecological study of joseph conrad’s heart of darkness

The researchers also show how the relationship between man and nature which had been sympathetic and harmonized in Romantic period changed to cruel and heartless one in industrial and capitalistic Modern time; and how Conrad’s Heart of Darkness meticulously shows this alternation. | Journal of Anthropology & Archaeology 1(1); June 2013 pp. 01-12 Hojjat & Daronkolae By the Name of Nature but against Nature: An Ecological Study of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness Mahdi Bakhtiari Hojjat Master of Arts in English Literature Kharazmi University, IRI Esmaeil Najar Daronkolae PhD Student in Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Ohio State University, USA Abstract The relationship of people with nature is usually expressed in different ways, and certainly literature is one of them. Nature as one of the indispensable elements of writing has drawn the attention of many writers specifically the novelists. In this study, the researchers attempt to apply ecocritical analysis of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. The researchers also show how the relationship between man and nature which had been sympathetic and harmonized in Romantic period changed to cruel and heartless one in industrial and capitalistic Modern time; and how Conrad’s Heart of Darkness meticulously shows this alternation. Key Words: Ecocriticism, Joseph Conrad, ecology; postcolonialism, ecofeminism Introduction ‘Ecocriticism’ as a term emerged in the world of critical study in the late 1970s by combining ‘criticism’ and ‘ecology’. Before that, it was the word ‘urbanature’ which described nature and life of mankind. Urbanature implies that all human and nonhuman life, as well as all animate and inanimate objects around us, are connected to each other. The ideas of nature, like a number of other concepts, have been invoked in so many differing ways over the centuries and critical study of that has appropriated different divisions over the centuries. M. H. Abrams believes that: Ecocriticism or Environmental criticism designates the critical writings which explore the relations between literature and biological and physical environment, conducted with as an acute awareness of the devastation being wrought on that environment by human activities. Ecocritics do not share a single theoretical .

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