An Ecocritical Approach to Fikret Demirağ’s Poetry Cover Image

Fikret Demirağ’ın Şiirlerine Ekoeleştirel Bakış
An Ecocritical Approach to Fikret Demirağ’s Poetry

Author(s): Mihrican Aylanç
Subject(s): Turkish Literature, Other Language Literature, Human Ecology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Uluslararası Kıbrıs Üniversitesi
Keywords: Fikret Demirağ; ecocritic; nature; environment; ecopoem;

Summary/Abstract: The nature of literature which has been developed has begun to be expressed by the right to life of nature has taken an aim to create awareness by centralizing the nature in the poems. Ecocritic has eradicated the opposition of nature and culture, bent on environmental justice issues and has led the readers to take responsibility for the entire planet through a socialist environmentalist critique. One of the most important centers of human history, Cyprus, which is located in the Mediterranean with its natural beauty and resources, has Mediterranean/ islander literary on the one hand, also shows a natural tendency in the local and universal context. Fikret Demirağ has had an important place in Turkish Cypriot poetry since 1974, as he was the nature’s voice being the pen of nature that is for purposes to hear and reflect the voice of nature, to convey social and universal problems in the language of nature, to protect nature and natural habitats of people, to repair damaged areas in rural and urban areas.

  • Issue Year: 24/2018
  • Issue No: 96
  • Page Range: 37-52
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Turkish