Kroeber argues that literary criticism needs to reestablish
connections to a wide range of social activities, especially the
thinking of contemporary scientists.
This new kind of criticism, "ecological literary criticism,"
sets out to correct the abstractions of current theorizing about
literature, and to make humanistic studies more socially
responsible. Though applicable to any writer of any period, Kroeber
points out that the proto-ecological tendencies of the English
Romantic poets make them especially useful as a starting point for
this approach. Since the Romantics believed that people were, and
should be, at home in the natural world.
"Ecological Literary Criticism" asks that we examine poetry
from a perspective that assumes that the imaginative acts of
cultural beings offer valuable insights into how and why cultural
and natural phenomena have interrelated in the past and how they
could more advantageously interrelate in the future. Kroeber argues
that this approach to criticism will help us to develop mutually
enriching links between humanistic and scientific modes of
understanding humankind and the earth we inhabit.
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