《寂静的春天》中的生态分析.doc

PAGE PAGE vi AN ECOLOGICAL STUDY OF SILENT SPRING A Thesis Presented to The Foreign Studies Department Xi’an University of Architecture & Technology Xi’an, China In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts by Zhou Wenjing June 2011 ABSTRACT Silent Spring is one of masterpieces of 20th century’s American writer Rachel Carson. Rachel Carson is the first author expressed clearly her ecological thought standing on the position of nature in the European-American literature. In the book, Carson cites a large number of informative information to disclose the world a series of ecological crisis caused by chemical pesticides. This thesis intends to give an ecocritical study of Silent Spring through the perspective of ecocriticism, probing the profound ecological implications reflected in this book. This study is of great help in leading us to understand the relationship between man and nature being sharing rather than confrontation. Key Words: ecological ideology, nature, man, chemical pesticides 摘要 《寂静的春天》是20世纪作家蕾切尔.卡逊的代表作。卡逊是欧美文学史上第一个站在大自然的立场上明确表达自己生态学思想的作家。在这本书中，卡逊引用大量详实的资料，向世人披露了化学杀虫剂引起的一连串的生态危机。本文是通过对《寂静的春天》的文本分析，从生态批评的角度进行解读，挖掘其中的生态学思想，探索卡逊在《寂静的春天》中给我们的启示：人与自然的关系是分享而不是对立。 关键词：生态意识，自然，人类，化学杀虫剂 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my gratitude to all those who helped me during the writing of this thesis. A special acknowledgement should be shown to Mrs.Yang, from whose lectures I benefited greatly. I am particularly indebted to Mrs. Li, who gave me kind encouragement and useful instructions all through my writing. Finally I wish to extend my thanks to the library assistants who supplied me with reference materials of great value. TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract……………………………………………………………ii Chinese Abstract………………………………………………iii Acknowledgements………………………………………….…iv Chapter 1 Introduction………………………………………1 2 Writing Background of Rachel Carson and Silent Spring 3 2.1 Rachel Louise Carson: A Fighter of Environmental