文章通过分析早期以来至今澳大利亚具有代表性的作家的文学作品来审视从殖民时期到现在人们对＂自然＂或＂土地＂的态度的变迁：早期的移民怀着寻求＂伊甸园＂的理想来到澳大利亚这块土地上,结果却发现在这崭新而陌生的环境中,生存和＂战胜自然＂成了他们的当务之急,于是过度开发和利用自然资源使得生态环境遭到了严重破坏;后来,由于人们越来越多地认识到土著居民与自然之间的和谐关系,也由于各种环境运动蓬勃兴起,再加之近年来产生的文学理论——生态批评——将环保意识不断灌输给人们,于是,人们逐渐开始关注、热爱、保护并尊重这块＂与众不同＂的土地。本文提及的作家包括肯德尔、劳森、斯特德、凯瑟琳.苏珊娜.普理查德、朱迪斯.赖特及约翰.金塞拉,另外作者本人的部分诗歌也被引用。%In the paper,works of representative Australian writers since the colonial era are selected to interrogate the changing attitudes to ＇Nature＇ or ＇the land＇ from the time of white settlement or conquest to the present.This paper shows how early hopes of creating a new Eden were displaced by preoccupations with survival and ＇winning the battle＇ against a perceived hostile antagonist in an unfamiliar environment.Later appreciation of this ＇different＇ land owed something to a growing understanding of Aboriginal cultural attitudes towards the landscape and inputs from the emerging environmental movement and new literary theory such as ecocriticism of recent years.The growth of cities also provided a ＇built＇ environment which somewhat displaces the preoccupations with the vast inland.Authors referred to will range from Kendall and Lawson through Stead and Katharine Susannah Prichard to Judith Wright and on to John Kinsella.Some poems of my own will also be included.
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