Research On The Theme-the Relationship Of Nature And Civilization-of The Awakening Land

American Western Fictions reflecting the historical process of Westwood Movement have constituted the important part of American Literature. The important meaning of them is being gradually recognized. American author, the works of Conrad Richter, The Awakening Land, is one of them. This essay chooses it to be researched and tries to tell out the relationship of nature and civilization in it by comparing it with other classic western fiction .So the essay can prove the special value of The Awakening Land.This essay is divided into five aspects: the relationship of wild west and agrarian west; the relationship of nature and civilization in agrarian west; the crash of western agrarian civilization and eastern civilization; the meaning in the contrary result of the ideal of Westwood Movement; the relationship of nature and civilization in activity of social organization and political system construction. Through analysis, the essay found The Awakening Land emerges profoundly that the damage made by wild west to agrarian west, the complex opposite relationship of nature and civilization in agrarian west, the relationship of west agrarian civilization and eastern civilization, the meaning of the contrary result of Westwood Movement, and the changing process of nature and civilization factor in activity of social organization and political system construction.The detailed deception and profound digging on the theme in the awakening land make it to be an important works in American Western Fiction History.