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Literariness and Sense of Humanistic Care: Ecocriticism's Purport

Zhi Yun-bo

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Ecocriticism is being put in the powerful and influential position because of the increasing importance of the living environment.So relations between literature and environment and geography have been taken seriously.With the main purpose of researching the relationship between literature and environment,ecocriticism has grown vigorously world wide.Of course,this condition has also connected with environmental degradation and the interdisciplinary character of ecocriticism.Ecocriticism sparkplugs people's environmental awareness,sense of place and ethical concern,maintains putting literature into life to dig the meanings of literature and environment,and it is contemporary existentialism of literature.As a new paradigm,ecocriticism has outstanding features of integrity,systematology with ecological wisdom.Ecocriticism has the obligation,also its mission,to value the role literature plays for ecological textuality,environmental justice,and civic virtues.

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Ecocriticism is being put in the powerful and influential position because of the increasing importance of the living environment.So relations between literature and environment and geography have been taken seriously.With the main purpose of researching the relationship between literature and environment,ecocriticism has grown vigorously world wide.Of course,this condition has also connected with environmental degradation and the interdisciplinary character of ecocriticism.Ecocriticism sparkplugs people's environmental awareness,sense of place and ethical concern,maintains putting literature into life to dig the meanings of literature and environment,and it is contemporary existentialism of literature.As a new paradigm,ecocriticism has outstanding features of integrity,systematology with ecological wisdom.Ecocriticism has the obligation,also its mission,to value the role literature plays for ecological textuality,environmental justice,and civic virtues.

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Ecocriticism is being put in the powerful and influential position because of the increasing importance of the living environment.So relations between literature and environment and geography have been taken seriously.With the main purpose of researching the relationship between literature and environment,ecocriticism has grown vigorously world wide.Of course,this condition has also connected with environmental degradation and the interdisciplinary character of ecocriticism.Ecocriticism sparkplugs people's environmental awareness,sense of place and ethical concern,maintains putting literature into life to dig the meanings of literature and environment,and it is contemporary existentialism of literature.As a new paradigm,ecocriticism has outstanding features of integrity,systematology with ecological wisdom.Ecocriticism has the obligation,also its mission,to value the role literature plays for ecological textuality,environmental justice,and civic virtues.

Key concepts: Ecocriticism, Textuality, Environmental ethics, Biosemiotics, Sense of place, Anthropocentrism, Literariness, Sociology

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