The Expectation Of Dances With Wolves

Novel based on Wolf Subject-matter are the current hot spots on writings and comments at home and abroad. The contemporary wolf novels abandon the traditional evil, greed wolf image and the old narrative pattern. By mistake-correcting and restructuring, they truly show living circumstances of the wolf and a crisis of the living environment and mental condition of the human beings. Meanwhile, they contain the author's deep concern about the ecology. This will provide useful inspiration for achieving the harmonious development between human and all creatures on earth. In view of this, under some relative research achievement basis, this paper, combining several fields theory, such as cultural studies, ecological literature, ecological aesthetics, ecological ethics and so on, views and studies completely and systematically the ecological thought written in the wolf novel. The preface, the text of three parts and the epilogue are included in this paper.The preface contains writing background, current research situation of wolf novel at home and abroad, the significance and method theory of this paper.The first part cards man's cognition to wolves in different civil eras and discusses diachronic thought of wolves so that to reflect actually the development and change of relations between nature and human beings. That is to say, in previous civilized era, wolf totem, wolf myth and many evidences demonstrated that human beings showed reverence to wolf to which man added some Enchantment, human and nature appears harmoniously in general. In farming civilized era, man is the soul of the universe, with the Disenchantment of wolf, wolfs image in the literary writings was smeared and demonized, human controls the university slow degrees. In modern industrial civilized era, on the one hand, people's hatred complex to wolf continues, and on the other hand, "wolf ferity" begins to come to life and appears in literary writings with a strong vitality. At the same time, ecological crisis and the man's spirit pollution are growing. After the age of industrial civilized era, with the declining of the individual wolf and the intensifying of conflicts between man and nature, man begin to cherish the wolf and to rethink the relationship between man and nature, wolfs attraction come to man's head once again, which also present man's concern about natural ecology.The second part discusses the contemporary literary characteristics of wolf image. Firstly, present wolf image is mistake-corrected, in some ecological documentary novels, it reflects the real living state of wolf and the importance of its existence. Secondly, wolf image shows up more humanity in contemporary literature works, and reflects writer's rational examine and reflection to life. Once again, by analyzing the upsurge wolf culture in some current fields such as clothing, music, sculpture, corporate brand, It examines the fervent attention and blindly worship of the contemporary masses to the wolf culture.Part three is the core of this paper, it mainly analyses ecological thought connotation of contemporary wolf novel. One side, wolf novel shows writer's exposure and critique to anthropocentrism, to expanding materialism, and to present human beings' endless conquering desire, and his query and self-examination for the modern industrial civilization and technology civilization. The other side, writer also commended "humanity" showed by individual creatures, praised ecological guard, and showed his fine construction and active advocating to ideal ecology at the same time. It incarnates writer's strong responsibility for ecology and his attention to the life.The epilogue discusses mainly several feeling and revelations brought by contemporary Wolf Novels:we expect to live harmoniously with the nature, to poetically dwell on the earth. To poetically dwell means we need to reconstruct ecological garden that the creatures can live peacefully, to reexamine the mental garden which is run-down day by day, and to reconstruct the religion garden of ecological holism.