LITERATURE AS CULTURAL ECOLOGY
Journal Title: Наукові праці. Серія "Філологія. Літературознавство" - Year 2016, Vol 271, Issue 259
Abstract
Within ecocriticism as a new paradigm of literary theory, the article deals with the interpretation of literature as cultural environment, which centres around the idea of the consonance of a human mind and the world. Thus, its aim is focusing on the concept of literature offered by the German literary critic Hubert Zapf, underlining its main provisions and categories. Research methodology focuses on the principles grounded in ecocritical analysis of literary works. Scientific novelty of the research consists in deep examination of literature as a cultural ecology, involving balance, equilibrium of cultural and natural forces that enables the consideration of literature and sciences as components of a coherent whole, putting emphasis on literature being similar to the ecosystem. In this respect, the Austrian author Hermann Broch’s essay Intellectual and Poetic Knowledge and Orfeo, the last novel by American writer Richard Powers, were chosen as the material for reasoning. It is concluded that the interaction of culture and nature as a fundamental condition of cultural evolution has a specific meaning for productivity and creativity of literary texts and that literature, based on its nature, is able to comprehend the ecological dimension of discourse, encoding and transmitting cultural knowledge and cultural experience, leaning with imaginative transformation of reality, its semantic openness and aesthetic reconstruction of knowledge and experience. The dynamic evolution of literature and its forms and functions in the general culture causes significant cognitive interest from cultural and environmental point of view only. The results of the study can be used in further detailed literary inquests conducted within the ecocriticism paradigm.
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S. Macenka
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