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

“生态批评作为文学批评理论的确立研究”课题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，包括环境文学作品和经典文学作品。本年度的研究主要集中在雷切尔·卡森的《寂静的春天》和卡森之后的许多环境作品中的有毒话语和环境正义以及环境启示录的修辞主题。1）在生态批评理论向环境批评发展的过程中，作为生态批评的第二次浪潮，我领导了劳伦斯·比尔的《生态主义的未来》一书的翻译团队，并于2007年5月在鹤见书店出版了该书的日文版。2006年12月，我发表了一篇关于“新生代”生态批评理论发展的论文。2）我在《美国研究杂志》上发表了一篇关于“寂静的春天”和有毒话语的专题论文，考虑到环境正义和有毒话语这一批评主题的实践。我把T.T.威廉姆斯和琳达霍根作为一个西方作家和一个重要的美国土著作家，以环境正义为目标。发表了两篇论文：《论梭罗和霍根的动物形象》《后卡森作家的《寂静的春天》和《启示录》

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"