劳伦斯·布伊尔是研究南北战争前美国文学的专家,也是生态批评与生态想象理论的先驱。1990年被哈佛大学聘为教授。1992—1996年,布伊尔担任哈佛学院院长,负责本科教育,后担任英美语言与文学系主任。著有《文学超验主义》(1973年)、《新英格兰文学文化》(1986年)、《生态想象:梭罗、自然写作与美国文化的构成》(1995年)、《为濒危的世界写作》(2001年)、《爱默生》(2003年)和《生态批评的未来》(2005年)。他还与惠·慈·迪莫克合作编辑了《地球的暮色:作为世界文学的美国文学》(2007年)。其中,《为濒危的世界写作》于2001年获得美国文化研究领域的最佳图书奖,即“流行文化与美国文化协会”的“Cawelti图书奖”;《爱默生》以其杰出的文学批评于2003年赢得了“沃伦·布鲁克斯奖”。他于2007年因获得“美国文学研究终生成就奖”,而被授予“杰伊·哈贝尔勋章”,这是美国文学界颁发的最高奖。
发表于2024-11-23
Writing for an Endangered World 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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The environmental imagination does not stop short at the edge of the woods. Nor should our understanding of it, as Lawrence Buell makes clear in this book that aims to reshape the field of literature and environmental studies. Emphasizing the influence of the physical environment on individual and collective perception, his book thus provides the theoretical underpinnings for ecocriticism. This work offers a conception of the physical environment - whether built or natural - as simultaneously found and constructed, and treats imaginative representations of it as acts of both discovery and invention. A number of the chapters develop this idea through parallel studies of figures identified with either "natural" or urban settings: John Muir and Jane Addams; Aldo Leopold and William Faulkner; Robinson Jeffers and Theodore Dreiser; Wendell Berry and Gwendolyn Brooks. Focusing on 19th- and 20th-century writers, but ranging freely across national borders, this book re-imagines city and country as a single complex landscape.
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