Accentuating Environmental Concerns through Literary Spaces: A Geocritical Exploration of the Select Novels Set on Land, Water and in Space

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The present study employs the novel approach of geocriticism to the text. The select texts are studied using the methodology propounded by Bertrand Westphal- Geocriticism (2007)- that aims to explore the representation of spaces through multidisciplinary approach. The researcher aims at immersive, integrated ecological literary research, through geocritical perspectives. The undertaken study explores space-based analysis of the eco narratives set at different places such as land, sea and space. The study emphasises the variety of perspective instrumented by geocriticism that stimulates the understanding of the literary text. The literary representation of the spaces enhances the dynamic relationship amongst the human and non-human world as depicted in the literary work. The study thus explores the variety of patterns, and forms of geographical representations practised when narrating eco-centred storyline. The novels undertaken for the analysis are set on land, water and in space. Nature’s Confession (2014) by J. L. Morin is an eco-novel and a climate fiction. Secondly The Tourist Trail (2018) by John Yunker which is an environmental novel Set at the Southern Ocean. And lastly the researcher explores the novel Interstellar (2014) by Greg Keyes renders Earth's final possibility to discover a planet fit for human habitation before extinction of the human race.

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