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关于学位论文独立完成和内容创新的声明及著作权使用授权书
Acknowledgements
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Literature review on Henry David Thoreau and his masterpiece Walden
1.2 The arrangement of my thesis
Chapter Two Egocentrism in Walden
2.1 Nature as a means of self-understanding
2.2 Nature as a means of self-exploration
2.3 Nature as a means of self-development
Chapter Three Ecocentrism in Walden
3.1 Thoreau as a scientist
3.2 Thoreau as an environmentalist
3.3 Thoreau's ecological consciousness
3.3.1 Thoreau's poetic dwelling
3.3.2 The economy of nature
Chapter Four Thoreau's paradoxical attitude toward human-nature relationship
4.1 The combination of four modes of Waldens
4.1.1 Transcendental Walden
4.1.2 Romantic Walden
4.1.3 Matter-of-fact Walden
4.1.4 Ecological Walden
4.2 Thoreau's alternating perspective
4.3 Thoreau's profound ambivalence over nature and culture
Chapter Five Conclusion
5.1 The assessment of Thoreau's ambivalent natural view
5.2 A rethinking on the western natural philosophy
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