A Passage to Indiais one of the master works of the famous British novelist Edward Forster of the 20 th century and it is believed to be one of the classic works in the history of the world literature.Due to some poli...A Passage to Indiais one of the master works of the famous British novelist Edward Forster of the 20 th century and it is believed to be one of the classic works in the history of the world literature.Due to some political reasons,it has been criticized and the focus of readers for years.However,the relationship between human beings and nature and the relationship between male and female analyzed in the book have always been ignored.This paper attempts to interpret A Passage to India from the perspective of eco-feminism,analyzing the affinity between female and nature,the double oppression of the world view of the patriarchy upon female and nature as well as resistance to the patriarchy of female and nature,showing the wish of the author to overthrow the world view of the patriarchy,liberate female and nature and set up a harmonious home for male,female and nature.展开更多
Within the framework of eco-feminist theory,this paper,taking Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" as a specific example,to explain how women and nature are marginalized and reduced to aphasia conditio...Within the framework of eco-feminist theory,this paper,taking Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" as a specific example,to explain how women and nature are marginalized and reduced to aphasia condition in literature.The paper presents a detailed analysis of the language of the poem,reveals men's anthropocentric-andocentric attitudes toward nature and women and proposes the decentralization or the relation of "anotherness" as a possible way to reestablish a healthy culture(men)-nature(women) relationship.展开更多
As one of renowned English novelists,Thomas Hardy concerns about the nature and the living environment.In his sixth published novel,The return of the Native,Thomas Hardy puts human being’s fate into nature,sets the h...As one of renowned English novelists,Thomas Hardy concerns about the nature and the living environment.In his sixth published novel,The return of the Native,Thomas Hardy puts human being’s fate into nature,sets the heroine’s fate into her attitudes to nature and suggests that just like nature’s destroy and tragedy,nature and women are ruled and conquered by pa triarchal society.展开更多
This essay tries to, from the eco-feminism perspective, criticize the male oppression toward the female and nature, analyze the crisis of the male rule caused by the resistance from the nature and women in Hemingway&#...This essay tries to, from the eco-feminism perspective, criticize the male oppression toward the female and nature, analyze the crisis of the male rule caused by the resistance from the nature and women in Hemingway's The short happy life of Francis Macomber, and advocate the harmonious co-existence between man and nature, men and women.展开更多
This thesis analyzed the relation between women and nature in the historical process of society and literature,and the relation between women’s liberation and environmental protection from the view of Eco-feminism,to...This thesis analyzed the relation between women and nature in the historical process of society and literature,and the relation between women’s liberation and environmental protection from the view of Eco-feminism,to reveal the root cause of the oppression to women and to find ways to liberate women,advocating an active role in improving the situation of women and the environment because these two tasks are closely related.展开更多
Cat in the Rain is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway which is published in 1925.With simple plot and plain lan-guage,this short story conveys many implicit meanings.This essay tries to reanalyze this story fro...Cat in the Rain is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway which is published in 1925.With simple plot and plain lan-guage,this short story conveys many implicit meanings.This essay tries to reanalyze this story from the perspective of eco-feminism,revealing Hemingway's ecological meaning and the feminist consciousness.展开更多
According to human history,there are varieties of ways through which the feminine aspect of nature faced and in many cases,overcame oppression.One of the ways this phenomenon displays itself is in the literary works t...According to human history,there are varieties of ways through which the feminine aspect of nature faced and in many cases,overcame oppression.One of the ways this phenomenon displays itself is in the literary works that we deem as realistic and an expression of the norms and customs of the society in question.Sister Carrie and My Antonia are two such literary pieces that embody the struggles and triumphs of women in the 19th and most of the early 20th century.In creating such monumental and naturalistic adaptations,both authors are able to present the case of two migratory women from different backgrounds but confined by the norms and mannerisms of the society around them.The struggles that each of these characters undergoes is an expression of the underlying constraints that the paternal and chauvinistic society of their time places upon both women and the natural world.The eco-feminist agenda,however,gets a more elaborate representation in My Antonia than in Sister Carrie due to a variety of factors that serve to illuminate the differences between these two iconic stories.This paper makes a thorough comparison between two literary works—Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser and My Antonia by Willa Cather from the perspective of eco-feminism.展开更多
基金the staged achievement of the fund program of the Education Department of Shaanxi Province(No.:2013JK0407)
文摘A Passage to Indiais one of the master works of the famous British novelist Edward Forster of the 20 th century and it is believed to be one of the classic works in the history of the world literature.Due to some political reasons,it has been criticized and the focus of readers for years.However,the relationship between human beings and nature and the relationship between male and female analyzed in the book have always been ignored.This paper attempts to interpret A Passage to India from the perspective of eco-feminism,analyzing the affinity between female and nature,the double oppression of the world view of the patriarchy upon female and nature as well as resistance to the patriarchy of female and nature,showing the wish of the author to overthrow the world view of the patriarchy,liberate female and nature and set up a harmonious home for male,female and nature.
文摘Within the framework of eco-feminist theory,this paper,taking Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" as a specific example,to explain how women and nature are marginalized and reduced to aphasia condition in literature.The paper presents a detailed analysis of the language of the poem,reveals men's anthropocentric-andocentric attitudes toward nature and women and proposes the decentralization or the relation of "anotherness" as a possible way to reestablish a healthy culture(men)-nature(women) relationship.
文摘As one of renowned English novelists,Thomas Hardy concerns about the nature and the living environment.In his sixth published novel,The return of the Native,Thomas Hardy puts human being’s fate into nature,sets the heroine’s fate into her attitudes to nature and suggests that just like nature’s destroy and tragedy,nature and women are ruled and conquered by pa triarchal society.
文摘This essay tries to, from the eco-feminism perspective, criticize the male oppression toward the female and nature, analyze the crisis of the male rule caused by the resistance from the nature and women in Hemingway's The short happy life of Francis Macomber, and advocate the harmonious co-existence between man and nature, men and women.
文摘This thesis analyzed the relation between women and nature in the historical process of society and literature,and the relation between women’s liberation and environmental protection from the view of Eco-feminism,to reveal the root cause of the oppression to women and to find ways to liberate women,advocating an active role in improving the situation of women and the environment because these two tasks are closely related.
文摘Cat in the Rain is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway which is published in 1925.With simple plot and plain lan-guage,this short story conveys many implicit meanings.This essay tries to reanalyze this story from the perspective of eco-feminism,revealing Hemingway's ecological meaning and the feminist consciousness.
文摘According to human history,there are varieties of ways through which the feminine aspect of nature faced and in many cases,overcame oppression.One of the ways this phenomenon displays itself is in the literary works that we deem as realistic and an expression of the norms and customs of the society in question.Sister Carrie and My Antonia are two such literary pieces that embody the struggles and triumphs of women in the 19th and most of the early 20th century.In creating such monumental and naturalistic adaptations,both authors are able to present the case of two migratory women from different backgrounds but confined by the norms and mannerisms of the society around them.The struggles that each of these characters undergoes is an expression of the underlying constraints that the paternal and chauvinistic society of their time places upon both women and the natural world.The eco-feminist agenda,however,gets a more elaborate representation in My Antonia than in Sister Carrie due to a variety of factors that serve to illuminate the differences between these two iconic stories.This paper makes a thorough comparison between two literary works—Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser and My Antonia by Willa Cather from the perspective of eco-feminism.
