The Oceanic Experiences and Imaginations in 20th-century American Literature

在这个项目中，我根据海洋环境的特征——海洋表面、海洋边缘和海洋内部——将美国海洋文学分为三类，以考察海洋环境与文学的审美和主题品质如何相互作用。这种方法不仅使我能够广泛地评价海洋文学，而且使我能够从海洋的角度重新评价传统的美国文学方法和实践。通过重新评估海洋活动和想象力在美国文学中被低估的作用，我试图扩大对美国海洋文学的学术研究；在此过程中，我相信我的方法将导致对美国海洋文学本身的重新审视，因为我不可避免地分析美国陆地/海洋经验和想象力如何通过美国文学和文化的发展相互关联或竞争。

In this project I divided American sea literature into three categories based on the features of the oceanic environment?the surface, the edge, and the interior of the ocean?to examine how the oceanic environment and the aesthetic and thematic qualities of literature interact. This approach enabled me not only to evaluate sea literature extensively but also to reevaluate traditional American literary approaches and practices from the oceanic point of view. By reevaluating the rather underestimated roles of oceanic activities and imagination in American literature, I tried to expand the scholarship on American sea literature; while doing so, I believe my approach will lead to a re-examination of American sea literature itself as I inevitably analyze how American terrestrial/oceanic experiences and imagination correlate or compete with each other through the development of American literature and culture.