Edebi Eleştiri Dergisi

Öz

ABSTRACT

In the last period of XX. century especially
in the 1990’s relationship between literature and environment started to be
aproached in the same frame as a discipline. The most important factor in the
emergence of ecocritism is the deterioration of nature along with
industrialization and the reflections of life threatening developments in the
literary works. Every year increase in the factors that thereatens life exlends
the framework of ecocritism or environmentalist critism theory. The
ever-expanding ecocritism is very important in terms of bringing a solution to
these problems.

The aim of this study is to explain the
ecocritism which highlights the relationship between literature and envirament
as an interdisciplinary method and to argue the applicability of this critism. In
the first part of the study, the emergence and the coverage field of ecocritism
will be mentioned.In the second part the importance of this critism in Turkish
literature will be dwelled on. In the third part of the study the novels of
Latife Tekin ‘’ Manves City’’ and ‘’Sürüklenme’’ will be read by the possibilities
of this theory. Latife Tekin as a contemporary novelist, touched upon current
environmental problems in almost every work of hers and pointed out the
relationship between literature and environment. In the conclusion part Latife
Tekin’s answers to the ecocritism’s questions and the importance between
literature and environment will be emphasized.