Ekokritika i Zarobljenik šumske kuće Anđelke Martić u izdanju Eko Vjeverice
Ecocriticism and Anđelka Martić’s Prisoner of the Forest House in Eco Squirrel Book Series

Summary/Abstract: The introductory part of the article aims to briefly present the main ideas of ecocriticism, a relatively new theoretical approach to the study of literary texts, andalso provide basic information about a special publishing project launched at thebeginning of the 1990s byMladost publishing house—Eko Vjeverica ( Eco Squirrel ), a book series intended for children. After that, the focus of the analysis isshifted to one of the titles from the series, Zarobljenik šumske kuće ( Prisoner ofthe Forest House ), a collection of stories written by a Croatian author Anđelka Martić. The main research issues in this article, which are at the same timethe basic guidelines of ecocritical approach in the analysis of literary works,relate to the study of fundamental ecological values implied by the word “nature”—what nature is in a given context, in which way nature is experiencedand perceived by human characters and how that perception has changed overthe years, and also how the world around us acquires meaning through textualrepresentations of nature.

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