生態(tài)意義的探索權(quán)力和白骨的動物符號解讀

1、南京航空航天大學(xué)碩士學(xué)位論文生態(tài)意義的探索:《權(quán)力》和《白骨》的動物符號解讀姓名：唐曉芹申請學(xué)位級別：碩士專業(yè)：英語語言文學(xué)指導(dǎo)教師：石云龍2011-01An Ecological Analysis of Power and The White Bone II ABSTRACT The simultaneous emergence of ecocriticism and animal study has brought on a cr

2、itical need for the discussion of animals in literature. The consequential appearance of “animal turn” leads people to a more profound understanding of animals in human society and triggers the study of animal images in

3、ecological literature. An ecological ethic concerning animals has developed in this context, which takes into consideration the complicated human/animal relationship and the ecological embodiment of animal images in lite

4、rature. Linda Hogan’s Power(1998) and Barbara Gowdy’s The White Bone (1998) are published in coincidence with the animal turn in ecocriticism, but the vital role the animal images play has been consciously or unconscious

5、ly neglected. Setting Power and The White Bone in the background of the “animal turn”, Hogan and Gowdy have created respectively abundant animal images which serve as symbols with multilayer of cultural meanings. This th

6、esis explores the implication of animal symbols in the two novels from three aspects, namely, the respect for the other, the construction of harmony and the concern for humanity. It is argued that in terms of ecocritical

7、 ethic and animal study, humans have given up all moral considerations of animals by relentlessly slaughtering them at random. By exploring the fate of animals presented in the two novels, carefully the thesis investigat

8、es carefully the animal rights and their moral status in the current ecological animal study. Hogan and Gowdy attempt to speak for animal “others” and make animal symbols serve as an expression of the respect for others

9、by decentering human’s hegemonic discourse. The respect for animal others brings back humans to a harmonious ecosystem where they coexist with animals, examining the ecological wisdom and spirit of the animal stories por

10、trayed by Hogan and Gowdy. Indicated in their literary discourses is the effort to go beyond the human/animal boundary towards community of harmony. The animal symbols show the possibility of a renewed connection and rel

11、ationship through a consciousness of ecological integration which demonstrates the connotation and denotation of the animals as symbols for humanistic concerns. The animals are mirrors for humans to construct an ecologic

12、al identity and fulfill the self-realization of individuals. With the theoretical underpinnings of animal study, postcolonial ecocriticsm, and the ecocritical aesthetic ethic, the thesis holds that the animals in Power a

13、nd The White Bone are symbols that convey the authors’ own view, both laudable and lamentable, of the animal issues in the context of the “animal turn”. Hogan and Gowdy attempt to interpret the roles that animals play in