Squirrels, Timber, and the ‘Ecological Self’ in Faulkner’s The Bear

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dc.contributor.authorHada, Kenneth E.
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-29T11:00:53Z
dc.date.available2021-06-29T11:00:53Z
dc.date.issued2021-01-04
dc.description.abstractReading William Faulkner’s “The Bear” with a literary ecologist perspective could shift readers from abstraction to ethical responsibility. Deep ecology, ecopsychology, and constructionist views of human development align with ethical criticism and ecocriticism to establish the basis for what Freya Mathews refers to as the “Ecological Self.” Mathews joins others in noting that human development must become ecologically self-aware—a state engendering emotional, ethical responses, confirming wholeness and sustainability rather than mere intellectual, theoretical acknowledgment, or worse, pathological denial. Literary ecology joins textual analysis and meta-textual information to affirm the story’s implied stewardship, despite Faulkner’s sometimes unclear, tragic view of his landscape. An optimistic ecocritical reading affirms, or surpasses, various critical approaches often used with the story—in particular, the paradise myth. Reading ecocritically affirms individual health and sustainability with human culture and nonhuman nature. (KH)en
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dc.identifier.citationHungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 26 No. 2 (2020) ,
dc.identifier.eissn2732-0421
dc.identifier.issn1218-7364
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.jtitleHungarian Journal of English and American Studies
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2437/318681en
dc.identifier.volume26
dc.languageen
dc.relationhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/8689
dc.rights.accessOpen Access
dc.rights.ownerHungarian Journal of English and American Studies
dc.subjectdeep ecologyen
dc.subjectecopsychologyen
dc.subjectFaulkneren
dc.subjectliterary ecologyen
dc.subjectparadise mythen
dc.titleSquirrels, Timber, and the ‘Ecological Self’ in Faulkner’s The Bearen
dc.typefolyóiratcikkhu
dc.typearticleen
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