Literature and Environment: An Eco-Critical Study of Selected Texts

The book, Literature and Environment: An Eco-Critical Study of Selected Texts explores the relationship between literature and ecology through poems, short stories, essays, and novels. The book examines how literary texts create environmental awareness, ecological ethics, and sensitivity toward nature in the context of climate change, environmental degradation, and biodiversity loss. Using the perspectives of Ecocriticism, Ecofeminism, Environmental Justice, and Animal Studies, the work analyses selected writings of William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Pablo Neruda, Mamang Dai, Ruskin Bond, Rabindranath Tagore, Kate Marvel, Gerald Durrell, and R. K. Narayan. The book highlights themes such as ecological harmony, climate crisis, silence, environmental ethics, indigenous ecological wisdom, and human responsibility toward nature. It ultimately presents literature as a powerful medium for promoting ecological consciousness, sustainability, and ethical coexistence between humans and the natural world.