论生态批判视野中的《麦田里的守望者》_英语论文

The Catcher in the Rye in Ecological Criticism

摘要

杰罗姆·大卫·塞林格是二战后美国文学中颇具影响力的一名作家。他的著作《麦田里的守望者》被誉为20世纪最受欢迎的小说。本文试从生态批评的角度解读美国当代作家杰拉姆·大卫·塞林格的名著《麦田里的守望者》，指出塞林格是一位具有生态哲学思想的作家，他在小说中通过探索一个十几岁少年向往回归童年、回归自然的内心世界，表达了自已对人与自然关系，及战后社会与精神生态的关注与思考。

本文将通过塞林格的《麦田里的守望者》的主人公霍尔顿所处环境的龌龊与肮脏,反映美国在二战之后社会物质文明高度发达与精神文明的急速衰退,借此表现出当代人思想上的浮躁与不安,表达作者渴望人类纯真的童年,希望去守护这一块自由而幸福的纯真之地的向往之情。

关键词：《麦田里的守望者》；塞林格；霍尔顿；生态批判；自然

Abstract

Jerome David Salinger (1919 years ~2010 years) is an influential writer in the American literature after World War II and his book The Catcher in the Rye is one of the most popular novels of the 20th century. This paper tries to interpret The Catcher in the Rye, which is written by Jerome David Salinger, a famous contemporary American writer, from the point of ecological criticism to point out that Salinger was a noted writer with the mind of ecological philosophy. He fully expressed his attention and thinking to the relationship between man and nature, the society after the war and spiritual ecology by exploring a teenager’s inner world yearning for return to childhood and back to nature. 

This thesis discusses the dirty and filthy environment that Holden, the protagonist in Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye in to reflect the highly developed social material civilization and the rapidly declined spiritual civilization of the United States after World War II. Thereby it can exhibit the impetuous and restless thought of the contemporary People, and express the desire of the innocence of childhood and the hope to guard this piece of free, happy and pure land.

Key words:  The Catcher in the Rye  Salinger  Holden  Ecological Criticism  Nature