Love for Nature in Jane Andrews’ short Stories: An Ecostylistic Study

Abstract

Love is a beautiful and complex concept that can have many different forms. One of its forms is love of nature. This love of nature stems from a fundamental understanding of our place within the ecosystem. We as human beings see nature as a good source for healing ourselves and recharge our energy. The aim of the current study is to investigate this concept in two short stories selected from Anderws’ book The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children from an ecostylistic perspective. It also aims to make a contribution to the domains of ecology and stylistics by demonstrating how stylistic choices can be used to transmit a certain viewpoint about love of nature. The data are analyzed according to Stibbe (2015).  The analysis reveals that the writer was able to depict the natural and human worlds as being intimately entwined due to the wealth of lexical resources. Moreover, a variety of stylistic devices are effectively employed to reflect the concept of love for nature in the data under scrutiny.