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On The Study Of The Ecological Implications In "Journey To The West"

Posted on:2012-01-16Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z G ZhengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330368987240Subject:Literature and art
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"Journey to the West" is one of the greatest supernatural novels in Chinese literature history. Complicated culture implication is accumulated in the long-period writing preparation and academics and scholars in generations continuously explore the inner value and implication and abound with discoveries. While in the previous research, ecological implication is seldom mentioned.As a masterpiece, "Journey to the West" presents multi-value system and multi-interpretation space. "Journey to the West" is a literature text rich in ecological implications from the aspect of ecology, and it describes the ecological beauty of ecological ideal, fully unveils ecological disasters in human society, reveals the root of escalating outstanding ecological problems, and provides the methods of ecological salvation, which gives us profound contemporary inspiration. This paper makes a whole new interpretation and deconstruction of resourceful ecological implications in the "Journey to the West", and aims to discover and illustrate the ecological beauty in the novel and to arouse the reader's psychological appeal to the ecological beauty. Meanwhile, the ecological implication research on the "Journey to the West" also provides a model for text reinterpretation and ecological criticism practice form.The thesis is composed of the following parts:preface is to introduce the present research situation and biological research dynamics and points the feasibility of the ecological implication research on the "Journey to the West". Chapter one is the poetic description and ideal memorial in natural ecological scenery, which positively analyzes the beautiful natural ecological scenery in "Journey to the West" text and leads to the memorial of "harmony between man and nature" in Chinese traditional culture. Chapter two is about the homestead realization——the look back in the Journey to the West, which emphasizes the typicalness, universality and profoundness of the homestead realization in "Journey to the West". Chapter three is the artistic presentation of ecologic disaster and ecological salvation, which reflects the ecological disasters in human life oppositely by bad condition and demonstrate that the pilgrimage for Buddhist scriptures of Tang's monk and his apprentices is an attitude of ecological salvation. Chapter four is the ecological publicity of the "Journey to the West", which points out the inspiration significance of ecological mood in "Journey to the West" on how to solve the gradually serious ecological crisis. The final part uses the research significance of this thesis research as conclusion.Nowadays, the ecological crisis is increasingly serious; the ecological implication research on the "Journey to the West" is of significant realism and pertinence. Facing the continuously appeared ecological problems, we should pay more attention to ecology, protect out environment, cherish nature and take care of our beautiful homestead, and devote to construct an ecological civilization. Considering this significance, "Journey to the West" provides us valuable reference resource.
Keywords/Search Tags:"Journey to the West", ecology research, homestead realization, ecological salvation, ecological civilization
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