Identify the correct statements about ecocriticism:
- A. It explores the web of interrelations between human and non-human.
- B. Human accountability to the environment is part of a text's ethics.
- C. It explores the interplay between environment and body.
- D. There is only one wave of ecocriticism.
- E. It has not addressed gender.
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Correct answer: A. A, B, C only
Explanation
Ecocriticism (Glotfelty, Buell) studies human–nonhuman relations (A), environmental ethics (B) and material bodies (C). Buell describes several 'waves', and ecofeminism has long addressed gender, so D and E are false.
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