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Animal Fiction - Human Green Meditation

Posted on:2009-09-29Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y SunFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360272987384Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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Animal novels have their original artistical charm,stimulating the modern metropolitians who are far away from nature to go back to the origin,the beginning, the nature,and the peace.This essay is maily about the theme,the connotation,the artist qualities of animal novels and theoretially about the literatural connections between the animal novels and modern eco-literature in the aspects of philosophy, Sociology,Psychology,Environment esthetics and other literature researches.This essay firstly defines strictly and systematically the animal novel's concept and the origin.The animal novel is important component in a children's literature,simultaneously also subordinated in the adult literature,this essay has analyzed the difference between animal novel,the fairy tale,and general children's literature,summarized the writing differences,the theme differences and content differences between animal novel and the latter both,thus making clear the unique literature characteristics of the animal novel,pointing out that the animal novel was an unique literature style.This essay discusses the origin relations which the animal novel and the human spirit development,pointing out that humanity's ancient times memory and the crude life experience,witchcraft,myth,fable and other forms in the animal novels can prove the remote and complex relation.They have provided the spiritual and the cultural evidence for the research of animal novel.This essay pointed out that the animal novel is one kind which has the romantic,realistic literature.The ecology literature originated in the 20th century.The ecology literature is one kind to inspect and present the relationship between nature and humans and to inquire about social root of ecological crisis.Ecology literature presents nature and human's relations,but its foothold actually in humanity's thought,culture,economy, technology,life style,in social development pattern.This essay believed that the animal novel namely displays the ecology consciousness at the beginning of the birth. The animal novel is the ecology literature forerunner,ecology esthetics fulfiller.What the animal novel initiates and follows is precisely the ecology literature core-- nonhuman-centerism.This essay multianalyses animal novel's green ecology implication and it also proves the animal novel to seek for basic life value significance and inquires ecology consciousness of the life development and harmony in terms of the beauty of survival, the beauty of life and the beauty of cordiality.In the animal novel,the nature becomes the independent esthetic object,the symbol is rich,it is the beautiful god,the mother or the avenger,which is decided according to the manner and the emotion of human,which just meets the intention that the ecology literature is to respect the nature and to maintenance ecological equilibrium.The animal novel natually and congenitally has the environment concern spirit and displays one kind of green homeland consciousness,namely environmental protection.The above analysis has proven such viewpoint powerfully:The animal novel is a kind of green ecology literature,a kind of forecasting the green ecology beautiful scenery,a sincere kind of sending out the ecology esthetic sense.This essay further points out that in the animal novel is containing rich and the numerous and disorderly ecology thoughts.Through analysis of a series of texts taken from animal novels,this essay proves the animal novel is to echo the animal rights, the biological centerism,the ecology centerism.The animal novels oppose the human-centered principle,esteem biology-centered principle and "species concern" ideology.Animal novels eulogy animal life's value and conform that animals have the inviolable rights to subsistence.Animal novels implore the relations between human and animals,and present the effect the damaged ecological equilibrium has on human and animal.The animal novel reconsiderate the human actions in nature,re-appraise human's way of existence and the mode of life,call to establish the progressive ecology ethics relations between human,animal and nature.The animal novel tell different animal's different lifestyles and situation,pointing out that it is species-equal ecology consciousness that supports the earth's development and prosperity.It is green ecology consciousness that instructs one of main ideologies of animal novels.After the above theoretical analysis and the elaboration,this essay affirm that animal novel contains humanity's green meditattion,which is a kind of literature style with a long-range approach and the profound opinions.The essay has enumerated four world classical animal novel masters' representative works,to further comprehensively unfold this green prospect,and to give the most direct,the most vivid main source.This essay elaborated congenital superiority of the Chinese animal novel creation,which happens to hold the same view with the ancient Chinese thought "the unity of heaven and human beauty ",China's geographical,national culture resources provided the rich creation resources and the conditions, simultaneously multianalyse and summarize present situations mainland China will define at present as the animal novel,and divides again the animal novels into 4 kinds,the animal novels,the humanlike animal novels,the popular science animal novels,big animal novels,and carded on the multianalysis to each type of work, pointed out differences in the literature essences,thus providing the theory basis for distinction of the truth and the quality and providing the reference and createria for widespreading the creation of animal novels.Finally,from four aspects such as the specialized knowledge and the accomplishment,the thought depth,social responsibilities,the literature innovation and artistic quality,this essay sets the request to the present China's animal novel creation,anticipating that the outstanding works with more profound thought,with the spiritual independence,with the significance,which suit to the world general trend to be published.
Keywords/Search Tags:Animal novels, Children's literature, eco-literature, natural rights, non-human-centerism, ecology ethics
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