ECO-CENTRIC PERSPECTIVES AND THE RETHINKING OF NATURE IN LITERATURE
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Ecocentrism, biocentrism, non-human agency, anthropocentrism, environmental literature, posthumanism, deep ecology.Abstract
This article explores the theoretical and aesthetic dimensions of eco-centric literature, examining how a growing body of literary works challenges the anthropocentric assumptions that have dominated Western cultural and philosophical traditions. Drawing on the frameworks of biocentrism and ecocentrism — as developed by thinkers such as Arne Næss, Val Plumwood, and Patrick Curry — the article traces how contemporary and canonical writers decenter the human subject, attribute agency to non-human entities, and interrogate the binary opposition between culture and nature. Through close attention to literary form, narrative perspective, and ecological imagery, the article argues that literature offers a distinctive and powerful medium for reshaping ecological consciousness and imagining more sustainable modes of human–environment coexistence.
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