By adopting some rules belonging to ecocriticism, attention is being focused on those works which are the first ones to be inspired by the “thought-through-connection” notionof modern ecology and which find their first expressive and artistic paths in the narrative for children and young adults by identifying, in a connected way, the crossovers with the popularization of science and with the objectives of environmental education. Through the narrative themes and the popularising writing – adopting the ecocritical statute as a reference guidance – the strategic problems relating to the ecological issue within the Italian fiction and non fiction are brought to the fore: the effects deriving from the aggression to Third World’s resources, the need for science to radically change its own traditional point of view, the inseparable interrelation between environmental damage and social damage by paying special attention to the role played by information. It is therefore suggested that modern ecological thought has remarkably contributed to the general innovation of literature and publishing industry for children which has developed in the subsequent twenty-year period.
Scientific Thinking and Environmental Education as factors of innovation in Literature for Children
FILOGRASSO, Ilaria;
2012-01-01
Abstract
By adopting some rules belonging to ecocriticism, attention is being focused on those works which are the first ones to be inspired by the “thought-through-connection” notionof modern ecology and which find their first expressive and artistic paths in the narrative for children and young adults by identifying, in a connected way, the crossovers with the popularization of science and with the objectives of environmental education. Through the narrative themes and the popularising writing – adopting the ecocritical statute as a reference guidance – the strategic problems relating to the ecological issue within the Italian fiction and non fiction are brought to the fore: the effects deriving from the aggression to Third World’s resources, the need for science to radically change its own traditional point of view, the inseparable interrelation between environmental damage and social damage by paying special attention to the role played by information. It is therefore suggested that modern ecological thought has remarkably contributed to the general innovation of literature and publishing industry for children which has developed in the subsequent twenty-year period.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
