Ecocriticism and Ecology in American Fiction and Film

• 발행기관: 한국아메리카학회
• 저자명: Jae uk Choo
• 간행물 정보: 『미국학논집』제47집 2호, 101~123쪽, 전체 23쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 기타인문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2015.09.30

영문 초록

Ecocriticism is the study of the relationship between literature and the physical environment. It deals with the interconnections between nature and culture, specifically the cultural artifacts of language and literature. Ecology and environmentalism have penetrated into literary and cultural theory, and ecological and ecocritical concepts have shaped their theoretical ideas into ecocriticism, whose integration and interaction with literature incorporate the main key concepts of identification, balance/harmony, de-anthropocentrism, and pure immanence. Ecocritical discourse in the second part has been applied to the interpretation of literary works and a film whose backgrounds range from rural to urban areas, even to cyberspace cities. As reviewed in this essay, the virtual landscapes in Neuromancer and Bladerunner are good objects of ecocritical discourse, although the virtual space is still too abstract to define from an ecological or ecocritical perspective. Cyberspace has emerged as a new space in which different kinds of ecological changes influence human consciousness and thinking materially as well as immaterially. If we argue that we as humans are at the center of the universe, the problem is not solved at all. At this point, what we must do is find the optimal ecological equilibrium among all universal elements, giving up an anthropocentric and accepting a biocentric view of life.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Ecocriticism as the Relocation of Ecological and Cultural Theories

3. Urban Ecocriticism with/in Fiction and Film

4. Conclusion

Works Cited

Abstract

키워드

Ecology Ecocriticism Nature Cyberspace Neuromancer Bladerunner