摘 要

有着“佛罗里达女梭罗”之美誉的玛•金•罗琳斯擅长通过生态书写展现南北战争后佛罗里达州垦荒区普通人的劳动、斗争和悲欢离合。小说《鹿苑长春》中的生态描写不仅可以帮助了解到特定的时代背景下的环境特点，也有助于串连小说情节、刻画小说中的人物。论文从自然景观、天气书写、动物描写三个方面的生态解读挖掘小说中生态书写的文化内涵和审美意蕴，并以此为切入点思考罗琳斯对人与自然、人与动物关系的深刻思考。

关键词：玛•金•罗琳斯；《鹿苑长春》；生态解读

Contents

1. Introduction.............................................................................................................. 1

2. Demonstration.......................................................................................................... 2

2.1Natural Landscape Writing in The Yearling..................................................................................................................... 2

2.1.1 Cross Creek.......................................................................................................... 2

2.1.2 Plant Writing......................................................................................................... 3

2.2 Climate Writing in The Yearling............................................................................. 4

2.2.1 Weather change and cycle of four seasons.......................................................... 4

2.2.2 Unpredictable Weather change and plot development.........................................6

2.3 Animal Writing in The Yearling.............................................................................. 7

2.3.1 Deer...................................................................................................................... 7

2.3.2 Dogs......................................................................................................................8

2.3.3 Bears.....................................................................................................................9

3.Conclusion................................................................................................................ 11

Works Cited..................................................................................................................12

Bibliography.................................................................................................................13

Connecting with Cross Creek

—An Ecocritical Reading of The Yearling

1. Introduction

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings(1896–1953), one of the famous American woman writers, was born in Washington, DC. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’ childhood experience is closely related to nature. The local literature she created in the outlying forests of Florida was based on real life stories. Most of them write ordinary people, like fishermen, hunters, and farmers. The scenery is charmingly depicted. She is not only an American novelist, a reporter, but also a poet.
Rawlings moved to Florida in 1928 and devoted herself to writing novels. Her short story, A Young Girl, won the 1937 O. Henry Award. The Yearling, published in 1938, made her famous, and won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. In all her works, The Yearling is one of Rawlings’ most famous and representative novels. It has fascinating plots and profound meanings, demonstrating the author’s great artistic talent.
  This novel is full of rich local flavor and warm burial of humanistic feelings. Rawlings portrays the lives of ordinary people in the wilderness areas of Florida after the American Civil War in a subtle way. The novel focuses on the 11-year-old boy Jordy and his father Beni living in a remote village in Florida. The father and son have a good relationship. They worked together and hunted together. The son always wanted a pet to accompany him. One day on their way to the town, his father was bitten by a snake. In order to disinfect, his father killed a deer and used deer gallbladder to stop bleeding. The careful boy discovered the young deer hiding in the jungle. After his begging, his dad agreed to take the deer home.

Nevertheless, as the deer grew older, it repeatedly destroyed the livelihood of the crops affecting the whole family. Beni wanted to let go of the deer. Jordy was angry with his father and left home. After experiencing a series of events, the son finally realized his father’s pains under the hunger and cold.