A Study on the Establishment of Ecocriticism as a theory of Literary Criticism

“生态批评作为一种文学批评理论的建立研究”项目旨在研究生态环境文学批评实践中的各种关键词和理论因素在环境文学作品和经典文学作品中的作用。这一年的研究集中在有毒话语和环境正义，以及雷切尔·卡森的《寂静的春天》和继卡森之后的许多环境作品中以环境启示录为中心的修辞。1)关于生态批评理论在环境批评中的发展，作为生态批评的第二次浪潮，我领导了劳伦斯·贝尔的《生态批评的未来》翻译团队的工作，并于2007年5月在Tsurumi Shoten出版了日文版。我在2006.2年12月发表了一篇关于生态批评理论对崛起一代的发展的论文)考虑到环境正义和有毒话语这一批评主题的实践，我在《美国研究41》杂志上发表了一篇关于《寂静的春天》和有毒话语的专题论文。3)在后卡森最近的女性环境作家中，我聚焦于T·T·威廉姆斯和琳达·霍根，作为一位致力于环境正义的西方作家和重要的美国原住民作家。发表了两篇论文：《关于梭罗和霍根的动物表现》《后卡森作家的寂静的春天和启示》

The Project of "A Study on the Establishment of Ecocriticism as a theory of Literary Criticism" aimed at the researches of various key words and theoretical factors operating in the practice of ecological and environmental literary criticism in environmental writings as well as canonical literary works. The research in this year focused on toxic discourse and environmental justice as well as the rhetoric of environmental Apocalypse as central themes in Silent Spring by Rachel Carson and many environmental works after Carson. The process of the research and the fruit follows three steps:1) On the development of the theory of ecocriticism into environmental criticism, as ecocriticism second wave, I led the work of translation team of Lawrence Buell's Future of Ecocroticism, and published Japanese edition of it from Tsurumi Shoten in May,2007. And I published a paper on the development of the theory of ecocriticism on the Rising Generation in Dec,2006.2) I contributed a feature paper on "Silent Spring" and toxic discourse to the Journal of American Study 41, considering the practice of the critical theme of environmental justice and toxic discourse.3) Among the recent female environmental writers of Post-Carson, I focused on T.T.Williams and Linda Hogan as a western writer and an important Native American writer targeting on environmental justice. two papers were published:"On the animal Representations of Thoreau and Hogan""Silent Spring and Apocalypse in post-Carson Writers"