The Retrial Of Eco-criticism And Theory Development,

Ecocriticism is on a rode full of frustrations from its appearing since the 90's of last century. In a general way, phenomenon suggests something deeper and essential, so there should be an answer for the roughness.As a new trend of literary critical theory, ecocriticism had aroused great interesting of many scholars all over the world, so did it to Chinese scholars. They fully reviewed both the thinking resources of ecocriticism in west and its course of developing, tried to explore the construction principles and possible trend of native ecocriticism in China, and briefly introduced Chinese traditional wisdom about living with nature harmoniously. But there are many shortages in these earlier attempting, such as blindness in orientation of subject, confusions in ways of explore, anti-contemporary on text choosing and lacking enough depth on study. All of these failures accelerated the coming of low tide on ecocriticism study.But what really matter is anti-anthropocentrism. As the theoretical foundation of early ecocriticism study, anti-anthropocentrism really is advanced in ideal for its penetration to the root of eco-crisis, but now it had been proved to be a stagnant principle in our daily life by making the theory and the practice split. It seemed to be two necessary premises to hang up the proposition of anthropocentrism and to surpass the thinking mode of "centrism" when we want to revive the vitality of ecocriticism.Consider that ecocriticism is an active literary response to eco-crisis, setbacks emerged provisionally didn't mean its valueless and is not a true rejection to it. Furthermore, ecocriticism has inherited the critic quality of realism and widened its horizon at the same time, all of these made ecocriticism a valuable theory academically.Certainly, ecocriticism should be based on some general theory, then eco-reason and eco-faith are hungrily necessary. As the popular feeling during the writing action, also an important topic of ecoliterature, eco-reason should be a critical category in ecocriticism, while as an othertheme of international ecoliterature, eco-faith emerged to be the other one. The two new critical theories would play important roles in ecocriticism: on one hand, they would improve the possibility of ecocriticism to insert our daily life; on the other hand, they will strengthen the ability of explanation of eco- literature text. Of course, they will push the theory forward finally.