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- Title
Tranquility Is Beyond Price and Nature Writing Reading.
- Authors
Shi Haiyu; Li Xuejun; Zhou Xue
- Abstract
Professor Cheng Hong at Capital University of Business and Economics is among the first scholars engaged in nature writing studies. She has been diligently working on British and American nature writing as well as ecocriticism since 1990s. In Tranquility Is Beyond Price, published in 2009 and widely acclaimed by academia and readership, she makes a systematic summary and review of the classic writers and their works in British and American nature writing. Professor Cheng sees nature writing as criticism, compensation, and retrospection of the previous relationship between man and nature. With love for nature and concern for the surviving status of people in contemporary society, she has conducted her research on nature writing through close reading of numerous texts, restoring the moving literary moments when writers encountered nature and inviting readers to have silent conversations with all the things in nature. She intends to evoke public awareness of harmonious coexistence with ecological environment, and encourages people to find a sublime spiritual world while urging them to adopt a new lifestyle beneficial not only to their own physical and mental health but also to the later generations. Upon the arrival of World Book Day, Zhou Xue, a presenter of M-Type Podcasts, invited two guests to talk about Tranquility Is Beyond the Price and other related topics. One guest is Professor Shi Haiyu, the director of the Nature Writing Centre in the School of Foreign Languages at Capital University of Business and Economics, and the other is Li Xuejun, the general editor of M-Type. They discussed nature writing from its origin, characteristics, various artistic representations, and influence on readers. They also analyzed the three-dimensional landscapes of nature writing (namely, the landscape, the soundscape, and the soulscape) and the reading value of Tranquility Is Beyond the Price, and shared their wonderful experiences of reading nature writing.
- Subjects
MANAGERIAL economics; PRICES; FOREIGN investments; VALUE (Economics); PODCASTING
- Publication
Journal of Poyang Lake, 2024, Vol 3, p87
- ISSN
1674-6848
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3969/j.issn.1674-6848.2024.03.008