生态文学批评述评

A Review of Ecocriticism

生态文学批评是崛起于20世纪90年代英美文学界的批评浪潮,它把文学批评放在地球生物圈这个广阔的语境下,结合切实的生态问题和文学文本,探讨人与自然的关系问题。生态批评的主要任务是:通过文学批评重新审视文化,进行文化反思、文化批判,揭露和批判导致环境恶化和生态危机的思想根源——人类中心主义,唤醒人类的生态保护意识,从而建立人与自然和谐相处、物种平等、生态平衡的社会。

Ecocriticism is a literary critical school rising in the 1990s with the intensification of ecological crisis. It is the study of the relationship between literature and environment. Ecological studies are targeted on re- examining culture and digging up the cultural roots of the ecological crises. Scholars of humanities and social sciences may contribute their efforts to the construction of environment - friendly society through their work of eradicating the old ideologies. This is where the value of ecological studies may be found. This paper is a general review of ecocriticism from the following aspects： the origin, the characteristics, the significance and the present situation. It also points out its future tasks.