6月5日Dr. Alison Calder 在诚意楼206教室为我校师生做了一次文学讲座: 文学与环境。这是Dr. Alison Calder在我校期间的最后一次讲座，受到师生们的关注。

Dr. Alison Calder从多角度多层次讲述了文学与环境的关系。生态文学批评是探讨文学与自然环境关系的一种文学批评理论，它旨在确定文学、自然与文化之间的关系。她分别从浪漫主义、现代主义和后现代主义三个不同文学阶段来分析和阐述文学与环境的关系，以及环境在不同文学流派中的具体体现。Dr. Alison Calder结合每个时期典型的文学与艺术代表作品展示了城市、山水、草原等自然环境对文学和艺术的影响。

Dr. Alison Calder的讲座内容是很前沿的领域，为我校师生提供了良好的论文素材，也拓展了视野。

 

 

Professor Alison Calder, from Manitoba University (Canada), gave a lecture in Chengyi Building on the evening of June 5, 2007. The title of the lecture is “Literature and the Environment.” All the teachers and students who attended the lecture think it is inspiring.

       Professor Calder talked about how literature and the environment were related to each other from many levels and perspectives. She first introduced a relevant concept, eco-criticism and then analyzed how the environment influences the creation of the writer through eco-criticism.  She gave the definition of eco-criticism as the study of the environment that is represented in art. The environment is not limited to natural environments, but also includes constructed and modified environments. She presented the features of the relationship between literature and environment in three literary periods: romanticism, modernism, and postmodernism. Romanticism is the cultivation of sensitivity to nature, and the natural world is the key of self-understanding and self-revelation. Quite differently, modernism focuses on the urban and rejects the pastoral.  Yet differently, postmodernist writers indulge themselves in playing with language-constructed virtual environment.  To wit, they play with signs. 

       In the last part of her lecture, Professor Calder talked about the influence of Asian poetry on non-Asian Canadian writers, and she shared her own poem with the audience for an ending.