Ecocriticism, Literature and the Age of Industry 4.0

Abstract

This paper examines the issues, challenges and prospects of the inextricable linkages in ecocriticism, 
literature, and the fourth industrial revolution. It explains the policy involved in marrying and 
connecting the study of the environment/ecology in a given milieu, concerning scholastic works that 
portray the pros and cons. Using apt and contemporary technological advancements to foster societal 
complexities in simple direct ways, and, the displacements and disjointments they cause by creating 
societal awareness of the field activities involved with adequate actions plans needed to mitigate them 
in society. This paper propounds that the study of ecocriticism, literature and the fourth industrial 
revolutions needs governmental, non-governmental and international non-governmental organisations 
review mechanisms of: contents, contexts, and co-constructionists’ documents. With due uses of 
processes, programmes, and projects assessments impacts. Hence, this paper uses: social conflict 
theory, needs theory and globalizations theory to help grasp the issues, challenges and prospects 
involved in the study of ecocriticism, literature and the age of the fourth industrial revolutions.