생명과 무생명의 경계 : 19세기 미국 서부 자연기와 무생명의 생태학
Boundaries Between Living and Non-living Things : The Ecology of Non-living Things in Nineteenth-century American Western Nature Writing
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This study aims to speculate on the ecocritical implications in nineteenth-century American Western nature writing, especially focusing on the descriptions of non-living things such as rocks, rivers, and other geological features. Little water, sunlight, uneven rocky formations, and even cloud drifts in the blue sky create a sense of liveliness in the dry region where living things have seldom come in sight. Nineteenth-century writers who explored into the wilderness of the American West described peculiar beauties of the Far West―which were closely related to the liveliness of the non-living entities. With the help of aesthetic appreciation, they brought on the geological imagination linked with certain types of aesthetic appreciations, to perceive what the rock, the river, and the sunlight says to them about liveliness and the meaning of life. The land of little water lays bare the fact that the meaning of life resides in complicated web of connections between living and non-living things. The ecological diversities and abundance in the Western territory, too, do not resort to the number of living things but the ecological and aesthetic harmony between living and non-living things. The latter especially sheds a new light on the issues on American character, discussed around the abundance and exploitations of natural resources until now.
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This study aims to speculate on the ecocritical implications in nineteenth-century American Western nature writing, especially focusing on the descriptions of non-living things such as rocks, rivers, and other geological features. Little water, sunlight, uneven rocky formations, and even cloud drifts in the blue sky create a sense of liveliness in the dry region where living things have seldom come in sight. Nineteenth-century writers who explored into the wilderness of the American West described peculiar beauties of the Far West―which were closely related to the liveliness of the non-living entities. With the help of aesthetic appreciation, they brought on the geological imagination linked with certain types of aesthetic appreciations, to perceive what the rock, the river, and the sunlight says to them about liveliness and the meaning of life. The land of little water lays bare the fact that the meaning of life resides in complicated web of connections between living and non-living things. The ecological diversities and abundance in the Western territory, too, do not resort to the number of living things but the ecological and aesthetic harmony between living and non-living things. The latter especially sheds a new light on the issues on American character, discussed around the abundance and exploitations of natural resources until now.
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