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ЕКОКРИТИКА ЗА РОМАНИТЕ НА ЛУАН СТАРОВА
ECOCRITICISM IN LUAN STAROVA’S NOVELS

Author(s): Afrim Redžepi
Subject(s): Literary Texts, Macedonian Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Институт за македонска литература
Keywords: novel; parable; allegory; symbol; ecology; eco-criticism

Summary/Abstract: In my opinion, environmental criticism is an exemplary project since it directs our attention to the issues we need to think about. Raising awareness is its essential potential. Eco-critics encourage others to think deeply about man’s interaction with nature, to highlight the aesthetic and ethical dilemmas created by the ecological crisis, and the ways in which language and literature convert values with profound ecological implication. Within criticism, there is no dominant figure with the kind of domination that defined the subject through his theories, such as in the case of Freud’s psychoanalysis or Derrida’s deconstruction. So criticism itself is a diverse biosphere, Brill would say. If we wish that there was no apocalypse, if we wish to hear the song of the Earth or nature that reveals the universal truth of man, if we do not wish the bird in the cage to forget the song, then we are forced (ecologically) to interpret. In this context, the ecological interpretation of Starova’s novels argues that in the environmental literature, the inhuman environment is present not only as an aesthetic form, but also as a presence that begins to suggest that human history is involved in natural history.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 76
  • Page Range: 15-167
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Macedonian
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