Abstract
Willa Cather is one of the most important and productive writers of America during the 20th century. Being her masterpiece at the peak of literary career, the novel A Lost Lady describes the “lost” of the heroine Mrs. Forrester in the male-dominated society. Since its publication, it has called much attention in the critical world. Through making a close reading of the novel from the perspective of ecofeminism, the thesis has explored Cather’s real concern to nature and women. Ecofeminism is regarded as the combination of ecologism and feminism and came on to the cultural scene in North America and Europe in the early 1970s. Ecofeminism literary criticism investigates the inner connection between women and nature revealed in literary works. With the ecofeminist criticism as the theoretical support, the thesis has mainly analyzed why Mrs. Forrester is lost. Her being lost results from the oppression from the patriarchal society and her ignorance of the close connections between women and nature. The thesis has concluded that Willa Cather is a great writer with sincere consideration of women and nature.
Key Words: ecofeminism A Lost Lady patriarchy lost
摘 要
薇拉•凯瑟是美国20世纪最重要最多产的作家之一。《一个迷途的女人》是她创作高峰期的一部佳作，英语论文题目，描述了女主人公福瑞斯特夫人在父权制社会下的身份迷失。自出版以来，该书引起了评论界广泛的关注。论文采用生态女性主义文学批评视角对小说重新进行解读，通过文本细读的措施，英语论文范文，细致研讨了作者对自然以及女性命运的真切关注。生态女性主义是生态主义和女性主义的结合，由二十世纪七十年代始作为一场文化与政治运动开始活跃于西方世界。而生态女性主义文学批评理论则旨在探讨文学著作中女性和自然的内部关系。本文主要应用生态女性主义文学批评理论从外因和内因上研讨了女主人公的身份迷失的主要成因，即压抑女性成长的父权文化以及女主人公自身对女性-自然关联的有意忽视。论文进而肯定了薇拉•凯瑟对女性的关爱以及对自然的关注。
关键词：生态女性主义 《一个迷途的女人》 父权制 迷失
1 Introduction
Willa Cather was a well-known American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. And A Lost Lady that was first published in 1923 is one of her famous writings, and has received a great deal of attention in the critical world. Until now, numerous critics have mainly focused on the analysis of the novel’s symbolism, artistic features, narrative perspective, plot arrangement, and usage of de-familiarization, etc.
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