North and Southis one of Elizabeth Gaskell’s greatest novels.As a British female writer,Mrs.Gaskell has vividly depicted the life experience of the female protagonist Margaret Hale,a young lady who grows up in a pict...North and Southis one of Elizabeth Gaskell’s greatest novels.As a British female writer,Mrs.Gaskell has vividly depicted the life experience of the female protagonist Margaret Hale,a young lady who grows up in a picturesque southern town named Helstone,and has to move to a northern industrial city called Milton.The description of her experience vividly describes the great social,environmental and economic changes that have taken place in Britain during the Industrial Revoluti on.North and South will be interpreted from a perspective of eco-feminism in the following two aspects:the impact of the Industrial Revolutionon environment and women status in patriarchal society.An eco-feminist interpretation of the novel can help to eliminate gender discrimination,construct ecological civilization as well as build a harmonious society.展开更多
Facing the broad "eco-literature" subjects, this paper, first of all, taking eco-literature viewpoint and the theoretical connotation of eco-criticism viewpoint itself as the starting point, conducts a contrast stud...Facing the broad "eco-literature" subjects, this paper, first of all, taking eco-literature viewpoint and the theoretical connotation of eco-criticism viewpoint itself as the starting point, conducts a contrast study from the cultural origin-tracing on the American eco-literature viewpoint under the Western Bible vision and the Chinese natural eco-literature viewpoint of"Oneness of Men and Nature" through the parallel comparison method; then from the visual angle of influential research is to further explore the academic compatibility in academic research: namely, the Western ecological literature consciousness begins to appear under the premise of the Western ecological civilization being destroyed, while the China's natural eco-literature of"Oneness of Man and Nature" is based on a kind of unconscious affinity between people and nature in primitive age. Here it is necessary for us to point out that they cannot be mentioned in the same breath, because the modern ecological criticism is not the reduction of an ancient ecological thought, and also will lead to the academic non-compatibility in academic research. So only by correcting the people's misunderstanding in cognition, can we reach the unity of the natural ecological viewpoint and man civilized viewpoint so as to keep the harmony between human beings and nature.展开更多
文摘North and Southis one of Elizabeth Gaskell’s greatest novels.As a British female writer,Mrs.Gaskell has vividly depicted the life experience of the female protagonist Margaret Hale,a young lady who grows up in a picturesque southern town named Helstone,and has to move to a northern industrial city called Milton.The description of her experience vividly describes the great social,environmental and economic changes that have taken place in Britain during the Industrial Revoluti on.North and South will be interpreted from a perspective of eco-feminism in the following two aspects:the impact of the Industrial Revolutionon environment and women status in patriarchal society.An eco-feminist interpretation of the novel can help to eliminate gender discrimination,construct ecological civilization as well as build a harmonious society.
文摘Facing the broad "eco-literature" subjects, this paper, first of all, taking eco-literature viewpoint and the theoretical connotation of eco-criticism viewpoint itself as the starting point, conducts a contrast study from the cultural origin-tracing on the American eco-literature viewpoint under the Western Bible vision and the Chinese natural eco-literature viewpoint of"Oneness of Men and Nature" through the parallel comparison method; then from the visual angle of influential research is to further explore the academic compatibility in academic research: namely, the Western ecological literature consciousness begins to appear under the premise of the Western ecological civilization being destroyed, while the China's natural eco-literature of"Oneness of Man and Nature" is based on a kind of unconscious affinity between people and nature in primitive age. Here it is necessary for us to point out that they cannot be mentioned in the same breath, because the modern ecological criticism is not the reduction of an ancient ecological thought, and also will lead to the academic non-compatibility in academic research. So only by correcting the people's misunderstanding in cognition, can we reach the unity of the natural ecological viewpoint and man civilized viewpoint so as to keep the harmony between human beings and nature.