An Ecocritical Exploration of McCandless’ Pilgrimage Into the Wild : A Literary Analysis of the Representations of Natur...
This essay examines Jon Krakauer’s novel Into the Wild from an ecocritical perspective. It aims to analyse three representations of nature: its interdependence with culture, its connection with transcendence, and nature as a linguistic or cultural construct in Into the Wild and relate them to ecocriticism today. The analysis uses Peter Barry’s intr...