回归自然——《密西西比河上的生活》之生态批评解读

Return to Nature —— An Eco-Criticism Interpretation of “Life on Mississippi”

《密西西比河上的生活》是马克·吐温凭着年轻时在密西西比河上做领航的经历创作的一部自传体小说,是美国乡土文学的先驱。"回归自然"是生态批评中的一个新兴理论,是以文学的审美功用来促进实现人的内部自然的回归,用该理论可以解析这部小说中的自然与文明的对立和共存,探讨作家对大自然的生态关怀和思考以及对个体生命自由的关注和热爱,从而发现,回归自然的根本是人的内心回归到原本纯洁、健康、宁静的"内部自然"。

＂Life on the Mississippi＂, a pioneer of American native literature, is an autobiographical novel by Mark Twain that makes use of his experience as a pilot in Mississippi when he was young. ＂Return to nature＂ is an emerging theory on ecological criticism promoting man＇s returning of ＂internal nature＂ by the aesthetic function of literature. This theory can analyze the opposition and coexistence between the nature and civilization in this novel,and probe into the writer＇s ecological concern and thinking as well as his concern and love for individual freedom.As a result, it can be revealed that the essential of ＂return to nature＂ is human minds returning to the original pure,health, and quiet ＂internal nature＂.