in his article, “an ecocritical reading of saʿdī’s ‘the mocaddamah; or, introduction to the gulistan of shaikh sadi’” massih zekavat argues that some aspects of ecological conceptualizations seem to have remained unchanged in iran since the thirteenth century. he also explores the possibility of applying one of the most recent western critical approaches to a distinguished text in the persian l...

Narrative theory has long been excluded from studies on the relationship between environment and literature, partly because scholars in ecocriticism favour realistic nonfictional texts, which d...