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From "Nature" to "Nature-as-such": A Reflection on the Object of Ecocriticism

Wang Qian

International College of Chinese Studies at East China Normal University (Shanghai 200062, China)

Online:2015-01-25 Published:2015-04-04
About author:Wang Qian is an associate professor in International College of Chinese Studies at East China Normal University (Shanghai 200062, China), with research interests in aesthetics, literary theory and eco-criticism.

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Abstract: What ecocriticism studies is not "nature" as material and substantial environment but "nature-as-such" that appearances in literary works. "Nature-as-such" is a conception between abstract idea and physical reality which could be understood by the way how natural things are described in literary works, and it could be used to explain how natural things are experienced in the real world. The conception of "nature-as-such" leads eco-criticism to step out of the first and the second wave in criticism which takes nature either as substantial environment or cultural construction, and enables ecocriticism to explain the relation between man and nature on ontological level.

Key words: nature-as-such, eco-criticism, phenomenology

Wang Qian. From "Nature" to "Nature-as-such": A Reflection on the Object of Ecocriticism[J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2015, 35(1): 189-195.

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