نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
Ecocritical reading examines how ecocentric themes are cultivated within literary works. One way of developing these themes is through the use of metaphor and metonymy, with one of the two axes of selection and combination dominating the other. It is of prime importance to convey ecocentric themes to adolescents through literature, and critical readings of young adult novels can have a meaningful impact on the creation of more and better ecocentric works for young adult readers. This study employs a qualitative analytical method to explore the nature-culture nexus in the young adult novel, The Seventh Western Floor, from a rhetorical/ecocritical perspective. Specifically, the study analyzes how the author manipulates the linguistic axes so that the metaphorical pole comes to dominate, reshaping -culture-nature nexus as well as the dichotomy between innocence and experience. The findings of this analysis reveal that the narrative positions an elderly character representing culture, experience, and metaphorical language against a young protagonist who embodies nature, innocence, and metonymical language. This opposition produces a form of aphasia marked by the dominance of the metaphorical pole-a process that ultimately links culture and nature and results in a systematic return to childhood and nature.
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