Greg Garrard's Ecology Without Nature

Greg Garrard is a prominent Ecocriticism theorist and he was Inspired by many ecological movements . He defines ’ Ecocriticism’’ as a way by which we imagine and portray the humans and environmental relationships in all cultural production as he says ecocriticism is the study of the relationship between the human and the non-human, throughout human cultural history and entailing critical analysis of the term “human” itself’ (Garrard, 2004, p. 5). He was in of the view that Ecocriticism is a method which define, explore and solve ecological issues . He in his book of ‘’ Ecocriticism’’ explores the major concepts of ecocriticism such as pollution, wilderness, apocalypse, dwelling issues, animals, and earth etc and his book …show more content…
His book ‘’ Ecology without Nature’’ is very interesting and enjoyable because, in it , he used occasionally irreverent style and embrace of kitsch which lends charm to his book but there is also technical terminology which is not easy to understand as a result of its slow down the readers . However, this slowing down is not accidental, rather it is exactly what Morton recommends for Ecocritics . In his book, Timothy Morton follows the dark ecology which is ‘’ We are in the sh**, we have to face it and learn to live with it’’. Timothy Morton has sought to engage mainstream critical theory in a way that problematizes concepts such as nature and the environment without giving way to neo-Marxist reductionism.The fruits of an emerging conversation between ecocriticism and postcolonial theory promise to yield new insights into both fields. This dialogue will need to continue, and the mainstream of literary studies will need to become more receptive to work on literature in the environment, in order for ecocriticism to shed its defensive posture and take up an appropriate space in the intellectual conversation. Ecocritics will have to work with a broader array of data and historical materials than ever before. We may not be scientists, …show more content…
Ashe argues, "[t]he nature of the representation is one of the chief concerns of literary theory, but the preponderance of theory is something elseTheorizing Ecocriticism 109ecocritics dislike about current literary studies" (Philips, 2003,p.578). This is hard to understand, because, as Arran E. Gare has pointed out, "[t]heoriesare ways of experiencing the world, conceptual frameworks in terms of which the world is interpreted and made sense of " (Philips, 2003,p.111). In other words, theories are ways of expressing meaning making processes,and they help us develop critical perspectives of how our sermons construct our realities, how language affects meaning making, and how meanings get contested within particular