Lawrence Buell who was against any segregated treatment of environmental issues, considering them as much material and of the physical world as they are socio-cultural or political-ideological, while defining ecocriticism partly continues Glotfelty’s dictum but specifies it keeping in mind its ever-growing interdisciplinarity:
. . . ‘ecocriticism’ as (a) study of the relationship between literature and the environment conducted in a spirit of commitment to environmental praxis . . . if one thinks of it . . . as a multiform inquiry extending to a variety of environmentally focused perspectives more expressive of concern to explore environmental issues searchingly than of fixed dogmas about political solutions, then the neologism becomes a useful omnibus term for subsuming a large and growing scholarly field.
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in Speek web), that is a text’s presentation of the physical reality along with internal ‘discursive meditation’ (ibid) opens up new horizons in the field of ecocriticism, by connecting imagination and its mirroring on the text to the real, physical world. But he was keenly apprehensive that ecocritical canon should neither be much skeptical nor be too liberal in its inclusion of texts and various forms of writings. Laurence Coupe, however, taking cue from Aldo Leopold’s ‘land ethics’ (Coupe 45) and Jhan Hochman’s ‘differentiation’ (ibid) argues that “Green studies makes no sense unless its formulation of theory contributes to the struggle to preserve the ‘biotic community’” and further clarifies that – ‘green studies debates nature in order to defend nature’ (ibid). Coupe meditates over an ecological justice which will be infused with empathy for all beings and concerned with the biosphere as a whole entity. The proposed green study would challenge industrial logic of capitalism and also