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The Meaning of Nature in American Literature
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The Meaning of Nature in American Literature My major concern in this paper is to examine various concepts and meanings of nature appearing in American literature. This research, I think, can be carried within various ways including philosophical, scientific, or intellectual ones. Here, however, I narrow the research scope and try to focus on the meaning or concept itself American writers pursued and designated from the early period to our contemporary one. The concepts reflect Americans' diverse values--political, social, cultural, economical, and even religious values--and the close examination of the concepts enables us to apprehend the values. Assuming that nature can be largely divided into two concepts or figures in American literature and these two kinds of nature have appeared repeatedly in contrary and sometimes conflicting relations to each other, I try to identify realities of these two natures and analyze their meanings and interrelationship. The two concepts of nature refer to, first, 'wilderness,' and second 'artificial nature.' Wilderness means 'nature as it is' which exists separated from human civilization or allows human beings for the least contact. 'Artificial nature,' which includes pastoral or a place that Leo Marx calls 'the middle landscape,' is a human beings-made space where nature and human civilization look to coexist. The two kinds of nature have their own concept and meaning which distinguish each other. What is most important in these natures is that they result from, but at the same time, reflect different aspects in American history, religion, politics, aesthetics, and thought.
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