Ecocriticism

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Summary Could it be that the most important function of literature today is to redirect human consciousness to a full consideration of its place in a threatened natural world? Literary scholarship and literature itself are, on the most fundamental level, associated with human values and attitudes. We should, as critics and teachers of literature, consider how literary expression challenges and directs readers to decide what in the world is important to them. We can't afford to shy away from the issue of values -this is the proper domain of literary studies and it's one reason why the humanities should be a crucial part of university programmes in environmental studies. (Slovic 1994: )