| Life consciousness writing is an important theme in literary works,and the works of postmodernist writer Richard Powers consistently highlight the passionate concern for life.Based on the relevant postmodern theories,this paper takes Powers’ long novel The Overstory as a model for research,focusing on the life consciousness writing within the text and exploring the ethical view of life,survival values and the construction of an ideal home presented in the novel.As a widespread way of thinking,life consciousness is an exploration of the meaning and value of life.Through the grand narrative of human beings and nature,Powers’ book The Overstory provides a deeper interpretation of the meaning of life’s existence.This paper focuses on the connotation of the life consciousness in Powers’ The Overstory,sorting out the realistic basis,philosophical origin,and literary implications of the writing of life consciousness,and exploring Powers’ view on the writing of life consciousness;focusing on the metaphorical narrative,the intertextual technique of penetration,and the encyclopedic book narrative within the text The Overstory,and analyzing the strategy of Powers’ writing of life consciousness from the perspective of artistic techniques;Exploring the value of the writing of life consciousness in The Overstory,Powers’ manifestation of the ethics of life,the construction of a poetic home,and his love for all things in the universe in the novel is a return to the writing of the true nature of life.The life consciousness writing in The Overstory is full of Powers’ deep concern for the future destiny of human beings.Only by abandoning narrow anthropocentrism,respecting nature,revering life,and coexisting harmoniously with all living things can we build and share a better home. |
