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FDA
12-19-2010, 07:20 AM
Hello

I remember I came across a definition o one of the literary theories while searching about a poet few weeks ago
I forgot the name of the theory but I remember it's concerned studying a writer's work in relation to environment> can you help me plz what's the literary term is?

I need to know it plz help.

laymonite
12-20-2010, 03:52 PM
Ecocriticism? Or, not taking the word "environment" too literally, could it be historicism?

Jeremydav
12-20-2010, 10:02 PM
Historicism, New Historicism, or maybe even Marxist literary theory.

I've never heard of ecocriticism. Is there such a thing?

JBI
12-21-2010, 02:03 AM
The term is Eco-Criticism and it has been popular recently.

Babak Movahed
12-21-2010, 05:16 AM
By environment do could you mean the natural environment: forests, wildlife, like general stuff like that? If so it could be some sort of mimetic theory. However, I suppose the better thing for you to do is study more.

Seasider
12-21-2010, 08:55 AM
And keep a notebook to hand.

Transmodernism
12-21-2010, 11:21 AM
If by "environment" you mean "cultural environment," the word you may be looking for is deconstructionism. Related key words are "Derrida" and "postmodernism."